Design Engineer, Water Infrastructure

Company Description

Design Engineer, Water Infrastructure

4435 Waterfront Drive, Suite 304, Richmond, VA 23060, USA

Full-time

Design Engineer, Water Infrastructure

Richmond, VA, Americas

Do you want to push the boundaries of your profession and develop your excellence in an open, collaborative, and empowering culture? Do you want to work on inspiring projects and innovative solutions that create a sustainable future and set the standard among our peers? Do you want to leave a positive impact on societies, companies, and people around the world, where both people and nature flourish?

If this sounds like you, or you’re curious to learn more, then this role could be the perfect

opportunity. Join our Water team and work with us to close the gap to a sustainable future.

Your new role

As our new Design Engineer, you will join a team dedicated to working with clients to deliver a wide range of water-related projects, from preliminary studies through design and construction and will work alongside our engineers, scientists, and resiliency planners, including collaborating with our global team of experienced professionals, to develop sustainable solutions to help urban and rural communities address the impacts of climate change and water infrastructure needs.

Your key responsibilities will include :

Working in a multi-disciplinary market to support a variety of water resources projects including assessment, design and rehabilitation of water distribution and storage, sanitary and storm sewer conveyance, combined sewer overflow control, stormwater management and green infrastructure, and flood resiliency, floodplain restoration, and flood control.

Alongside the guidance of senior engineers and subject matter experts, you will be

performing field investigations (including infrastructure assessment and rehabilitation), alternatives analysis, preparing designs and performing

engineering calculations, preparing cost estimations, collaborating with the project

team to deliver final deliverables and contract documents and providing review of construction submittals for compliance with project plans and specifications.

In addition to design, you will be developing written technical reports and be given the

opportunity to present findings to various audiences to strengthen your technical and

communication skills, recognize your contributions to the project, and to further develop

your professional network and brand with stakeholders, clients, and project teams.

Your new team

You will be part of the Water Infrastructure & Climate Adaptation team. With a diverse team

across the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions, we provide solutions related to hydraulic modelling, watershed management, site civil design, stormwater management; blue-green infrastructure; design of new and rehabilitation of water infrastructure; climate and resiliency planning; dams and waterfront development including structural, geotechnical, heavy civil and water resources engineering.

About you

From the moment you start at Ramboll, we will support your personal and professional

development so that you can continue to grow with the company. While we look forward to

supporting your continued learning and development, for this role we have identified some

qualifications, skills, and capabilities that will set you up for success.

These include :

Bachelor’s degree in engineering and 2+ years of qualifying engineering experience in

the engineering / design field.

• Exhibits basic knowledge of engineering fundamentals.
• Basic experience with Microsoft Office products.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD (Proficiency in AutoCAD Civil 3D, preferred)
• Engineer-in-Training certification, preferred.

Personal qualities that will help you succeed in this role include ability to work remotely

with colleagues and collaboratively with project teams, efficient time management skills,

proactive communication, and ability to adapt to working on a variety of projects

What we can offer you

Work at the heart of sustainable change

Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company. We believe that the purpose of sustainable change is to create a thriving world for both nature and people. So, that’s where we start – and how we work. At Ramboll, our core strength is our people, and our history is rooted in a clear vision of how a responsible company should act. Being open and curious is a cornerstone of our culture. We embrace an inclusive mindset that looks for fresh, diverse, and innovative perspectives. We respect, embrace, and invite diversity in all forms to actively cultivate an environment where everyone can flourish and realize their full potential.