Water Resources Engineer

Overview

Are you someone with strong leadership and technical capabilities?  Do you enjoy building relationships and working collaboratively in a team environment with both internal and external stakeholders? Are you a thought leader, a trusted advisor and a problem solver? If you enjoy entrepreneurship and innovation, this opportunity is for you! As someone with excellent communication skills and business acumen, you will thrive in our fast-paced and agile environment.

Your opportunity 

Dillon’s Water Resources Discipline is seeking a Water Resources Engineer to fill an existing/new vacancy within our multidisciplinary team of professionals. You will have the opportunity to work on new and exciting projects while providing clients with a fully integrated and superior customer experience.

At Dillon, we operate as one team. The successful candidate can be based at any one of the following offices: Saint John, Fredericton or Halifax offices.

We offer flexible work hours and hybrid work arrangements to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.

Responsibilities

What your day will look like

Project Management & Design

• Provide technical input for delivery of water resource management projects and quotations for proposals.
• Provide project management and coordination support for water resources projects.
• Undertake studies, assessments, modeling, preliminary and detailed design, cost estimates, specifications, and input to contract documents.
• Undertake hydrologic and hydraulic modelling and analysis of transportation/highway drainage systems, including bridges, culverts, ditching, grading, and erosion and scour protection.
• Fulfill project plans in accordance with established scopes of work, budgets, and schedules to execute high quality projects.
• Apply diversified knowledge of engineering principles and practices.
• Develop new or novel concepts and approaches and recommend major design changes.
• Provide technical input for complex or unique assignments.
• Support multi-disciplinary projects or programs.
• Direct and coordinate water resources related activities of engineering and design groups, both from a technical and functional standpoint.
• Undertake hydrologic and hydraulic modelling and analysis of urban infrastructure systems, including surface drainage, storm sewer networks, dual drainage systems, sanitary sewer networks, and combined sewer systems.
• Apply monitored and statistical data to models to simulate return-period and continuous scenarios, and to calibrate and validate results.
• Provide project engineering and technical expertise, calculations, and design input to various stormwater management and drainage systems.
• Model, analyze, and interpret results via technical documents and reporting.
• Coordination with cross-disciplines to identify and incorporate relevant data pertaining to hydrologic and hydraulic parameters, system connectivity, discharge points, project constraints, and implementation considerations.

Learning & Development

• Commit to self-development and ongoing learning and professional development.
• Input to the career development of junior staff, including technical direction, training recommendations, coaching and mentoring.
• Contribute to Dillon’s corporate profile through active participation in professional associations and committees.

Qualifications

What you will need to succeed

• Undergraduate degree in engineering or applicable technical degree or diploma.
• 5+ years’ relevant experience in a consulting environment on water resources engineering projects.
• Eligible to hold valid a license from the relevant provincial Professional Engineering Association
• Valid G license.

Experience

• Working on transportation/highway drainage projects.
• Working knowledge of AutoCAD and ARC GIS.
• Working knowledge of Visual OTTHYMO, PCSWMM, HEC-RAS, and related computer models.
• Familiarity with water balance and continuous simulation modelling.
• Excellent communications, report writing, organization and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a collaborative, team environment.
• Excellent initiative and attention to detail.
• A self-motivated individual looking for advancement opportunities.

In addition to a competitive base salary, Dillon offers:

• Flexible work hours and hybrid work arrangement options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life
• Employee share purchase plan
  • Dillon is 100% employee-owned, and share ownership is open to all employees.
  • Our annual share dividends have historically outperformed the market average
• Dillon’s Overtime Directive.
  • This Management Directive establishes a firm-wide 40-hour weekly overtime threshold, after which premium pay applies, ensuring consistent and fair compensation across all Canadian offices.
• Competitive benefits package, including:
  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Generous retirement savings plan with employer matching up to 5.5%
  • Student loan repayment assistance
  • Wellness allowance and enhanced mental health benefits
  • Ample paid vacation
  • Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
  • Goodlife Fitness Corporate Membership rates
• Early Career Development (ECD) program
  • At Dillon, we build careers. Designed for technical professionals with less than three years of consulting experience, the ECD program accelerates the transition into entrepreneurial consultants through monthly ‘Level Up’ sessions that build both technical and consulting capabilities. Own your success; we provide the blueprint.

Health & Safety at Dillon

Prospective employees are expected to fully align with Dillon's core commitment to Health & Safety. This includes active, ongoing engagement with our Health & Safety processes and platform, and the active, ongoing identification and reporting of health and safety hazards.

Employment Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Dillon

Dillon is committed to employment equity and an inclusive, diverse workplace where opportunities are based on skills and abilities. If you require accommodation during the interview process, please let us know.

Technology enablement and the use of AI at Dillon

Please be advised that Dillon uses AI-assisted tools to support aspects of our recruitment process to increase efficiency and fairness. While AI supports the process, all hiring decisions are made by our human recruiting team. By applying, you acknowledge and consent to this use.