Woolpert
Municipal Civil/Utilities Engineer
Harrisburg, PA · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$101k-$152kDetected 10 hours ago
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About the role
- Woolpert is seeking a licensed Municipal Engineer to join our Energy & Water Utilities Group in Pennsylvania.
- This role serves as a trusted advisor and technical leader for municipal and authority clients, providing engineering expertise across water, wastewater, stormwater, site/civil, transportation, and capital improvement programs.
- Review proposed development plans submitted by private individuals and organizations for compliance with relevant laws, ordinances, and codes.
Responsibilities
- This individual will lead multidisciplinary teams, cultivate client relationships, and provide engineering guidance throughout both the municipal plan review process and public project design/bid/build lifecycle.
- Develop improvement guarantee opinions of probable cost to protect municipal and authority clients from incomplete or deficient work.
- Oversee and sometimes directly manage multidisciplinary projects in disciplines such as water, wastewater, stormwater, site/civil, transportation, and other municipal and authority infrastructure sectors.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with municipal, authority, and other public-sector clients.
- Mentor and develop junior engineering staff while promoting technical excellence and quality delivery.
- Collaborate with market and practice leadership to identify growth opportunities within municipal and authority sectors.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- 8+ years of progressively responsible experience representing municipal and/or authority clients.
- Comfort with speaking at public meetings and conveying engineering concepts to non-engineers.
- Experience conducting plan reviews of proposed developments for compliance with subdivision and land development, zoning, and stormwater ordinances
- Experience reviewing and approving engineering deliverables as the Engineer of Record.
- Strong understanding of municipal and authority design standards, regulatory requirements, and permitting processes.
- Experience managing project budgets, schedules, and technical teams both within and outside of disciplinary experience.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with infrastructure master planning, asset management programs, system modeling, or capital improvement planning.
- Existing relationships within municipal or authority markets.
- Key Competencies
- Technical Leadership
- Engineer of Record Responsibilities
- Client Relationship Management
- Project Delivery
- Regulatory Compliance
Compensation
- $101,200 - $151,800 USD
Benefits
- We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.
Equal opportunity
- Equal-Employment-Opportunity-The-Law.pdf and EEO is the Law Poster Supplement.
- Applicants who require an accommodation throughout the application and interview process should request this in advance by contacting your Recruiter
- Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of Woolpert or any of our subsidiaries about this requisition.
- In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of Woolpert's applicant process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.
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