Lead Drainage Engineer

What Your Day Will Look Like:

As a Lead Drainage Engineer, you will serve as the technical leader for drainage and stormwater design efforts supporting transportation projects throughout Utah and the Mountain West. Working closely with roadway, structures, traffic, and environmental teams, you will lead the planning, analysis, and design of complex drainage infrastructure for highways, interchanges, bridges, and municipal transportation projects.

In this role, you will provide technical leadership for hydrologic and hydraulic analyses, drainage reports, drainage design memoranda, stormwater management facilities, culverts, channels, and closed conveyance systems. You will be responsible for developing design approaches, mentoring staff, overseeing quality reviews, and ensuring compliance with UDOT, local agency, FHWA, and regulatory requirements.

As a senior technical leader, you will play an important role in client relationships, project pursuits, project delivery, and the continued growth of Consor's transportation drainage practice in Utah. This position provides an opportunity to influence major infrastructure projects, develop younger engineers, and help shape the future of the Draper transportation team.

Projected Compensation: $145,000 - $190,000+ DOE. Compensation above this range may be considered for candidates whose experience and expertise significantly exceed the minimum requirements.

What You'll Do:

• Lead drainage design and technical delivery for transportation projects including highways, interchanges, bridges, and roadway reconstruction projects.
• Prepare and oversee hydrologic and hydraulic studies, drainage reports, drainage design memoranda, and stormwater management plans.
• Perform and review watershed analyses, floodplain evaluations, culvert analyses, storm sewer design, open channel modeling, detention basin design, and erosion control plans.
• Serve as the drainage technical lead and provide mentoring and guidance to junior engineers and designers.
• Coordinate closely with roadway, structures, traffic, environmental, utility, and construction teams.
• Interface directly with clients including UDOT, municipalities, counties, and other transportation agencies.
• Develop scopes of work, budgets, schedules, and staffing plans for drainage tasks and projects.
• Support proposal preparation, interviews, business development efforts, and client relationship management.
• Provide QA/QC review of drainage deliverables and ensure compliance with agency requirements and company standards.
• Support design-build and alternative delivery pursuits and transportation project delivery efforts.

What You'll Need:

• 10+ years of transportation drainage and stormwater design experience.
• Strong experience supporting UDOT, DOT, municipal, or transportation infrastructure projects.
• Advanced experience with hydrologic and hydraulic modeling software such as OpenRoads Drainage, HY-8, HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, StormCAD, Civil 3D, or similar tools.
• Experience leading project teams and mentoring engineering staff.
• Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering or related discipline.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• Strong communication, client management, and technical writing skills.
• Design-build or alternative delivery experience is a plus.

  This job operates between an office environment and some project site visits. Routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones and copy machines. May require occasional exposure to work environments that may include inclement weather, heat, humidity, noise, hazard, atmospheric conditions, and bodies of water, depending on project requirements.While performing the duties of this job, physical demands of the employee include frequent sitting, moving, standing, talking, hearing, and occasional balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, handling, grasping, and feeling. This job may occasionally require operating a company vehicle, and lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling up to 35 lbs.

What Benefits You’ll Enjoy:  

We invest in us. Because our team members go above, below, and beyond the surface to care for our communities (inside and out), we do our best to take care of you by providing a comprehensive benefits package! Eligibility for some of the benefits outlined below is based on full-time work status; part-time and contingent positions are only eligible based on hours worked. If you have questions, contact [email protected]. 

• Career Growth & Development – Tuition reimbursement program, paid professional training, major license achievement bonus, extensive on-demand learning center, and paid professional memberships.  

• Work-Life Alignment – Industry-competitive PTO, seven paid holidays and two floating holidays, flexible work schedules, paid parental leave, and eligibility for hybrid and remote work options for some employees based on role responsibilities.  

• Wellness – Medical, dental and vision insurance, employee assistance program, fitness and wellness reimbursement, and HSA and FSA options.  

• Life – Employer-paid STD and LTD, employer-paid term life insurance, and retirement 401(k) with company match.  

• Community – Quarterly social events, paid group volunteering events, and employee networks and groups.   

How Your Career Will Grow:  

We know career growth is not always linear or streamlined—it’s often dynamic. You may want to explore a management track, try a new technical track, or move laterally to reposition your skills and talents. No matter what level you join us at or how you want to shape your career, we want Consor to be a place where you can learn and grow.  

Why You’ll Love Consor:   

You’ll experience a culture where we share in our successes and support one another through challenges. Here, there are countless opportunities to explore your career path by working on projects that help you expand your potential and take your career to new heights! Join our diverse team of experts who live and work alongside client partners, providing thoughtful solutions to create inspiring communities together. Click here to learn more about Consor. 

Consor’s Commitment to Equal Opportunity in the Workplace 

Consor welcomes and celebrates equality and diversity in the workplace. We are committed to fostering an environment in which employees and prospective employees are treated with dignity and respect, and where the uniqueness, perspectives, and experiences of individuals are valued. Consor is an equal opportunity employer and maintains employment practices designed to provide equal employment and development opportunities for all employees and applicants, in accordance with applicable local, state, and federal laws. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Consor also maintains an affirmative action program across its offices and worksites. 

If you need more information or special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact Human Resources at (786) 275-7370. Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Consor by using the Virginia Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). Call 711 for TTY/TDD.  

If any applicant believes they have been discriminated against or desires further information or assistance, contact us at (786) 275-7370.  

Notices: The above job description is intended to relay a general sense of the position's responsibilities and expectations. It does not describe all tasks that may be assigned. As business demands change, the essential functions of this position may also change. The position requires the successful completion of applicable pre-employment substance screening and background checks. 

At Consor, we're committed to recruiting teammates ready to expand their potential. To safeguard candidates, we use only legitimate recruitment practices. Initial outreach is conducted through official Consor email addresses or LinkedIn messaging; be suspicious of any inconsistencies.  We do not request personal data, sensitive information, or banking details during the application process. Interviews are conducted via phone, in person, or through Microsoft Teams—never through messaging apps or other calling services. All job offers are merit-based, delivered verbally, and followed up by written confirmation. If personal information is required to initiate the hiring process, it will be collected through secure, authorized channels. If ever in doubt, contact [email protected].

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