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As of Sep 4, 2026, the average yearly pay for chief design engineer in the United States is $166,542.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $140,000.00 and $190,000.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

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Chief Design Engineers are senior professionals responsible for overseeing the design and development of products, systems, or components within an organization. They lead design teams, set technical standards, and ensure that projects meet quality, safety, and performance requirements. Their role often involves coordinating with other departments, managing budgets, and providing technical guidance throughout the product development lifecycle. Chief Design Engineers play a critical role in innovation and ensuring that engineering solutions align with company goals.

What are the main challenges a chief design engineer faces when leading multidisciplinary design teams?

A Chief Design Engineer often manages teams with diverse expertise, such as mechanical, electrical, and software engineers, which can present challenges in aligning differing technical perspectives and priorities. Ensuring effective communication and collaboration across these specialties is essential to deliver cohesive design solutions on schedule. Additionally, balancing innovative design concepts with practical constraints like budget, manufacturability, and regulatory compliance requires strong leadership and problem-solving skills. Building trust and clarity within the team helps facilitate smooth project execution and fosters a culture of continuous improvement.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a chief design engineer, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Chief Design Engineer, you need advanced engineering knowledge, leadership abilities, and a relevant degree (often in mechanical, electrical, or civil engineering), plus extensive design experience. Proficiency with CAD software, PLM systems, and familiarity with relevant industry standards and certifications (such as PE or chartered status) is typically required. Exceptional problem-solving, communication, and project management skills help you lead teams and collaborate across departments. These skills ensure innovative, technically sound solutions that meet project goals and drive organizational success.

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Infographic showing various Chief Design Engineer job openings in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 90% Full Time, 7% Part Time, and 3% Contract. Highlights an 81% Physical, 5% Hybrid, and 14% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $166,542 per year, or $80.1 per hour.

National Stormwater Design Group Chief Engineer

Arcadis

Jacksonville, FL • On-site

$151K/yr

Full-time, Part-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Posted 6 days ago


Arcadis rating

8.7

Company rating: 8.7 out of 10

Based on 22 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

80th of 452 rated engineering


Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play.

With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together. Role description: Arcadis seeks a Chief Engineer to lead our National Stormwater Design Group. This position could be located in North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ohio or Tennessee and will oversee design activities performed by design teams located throughout the US.

Design teams are involved in projects that vary in size and scope and could include highway drainage, bridge & culvert analysis, water quality design, detention analysis, and erosion control on projects ranging from intersection improvements to interstate reconstruction. This position will coordinate with state and regional Stormwater group leads to align the right design resources to the right project, not only facilitating project success but also promoting staff development. Role accountabilities: Be responsible for overall performance of transportation stormwater design groups.

This includes staff utilization, adherence to standard operation procedures, timely delivery of design tasks within agreed upon budgets and quality standards. Work with area leads and pursuit team to develop and maintain resourcing forecasts to address resource needs for existing and potential future projects. Promote collaboration and resource sharing between various Arcadis offices within US and other parts of the world.

Recruiting, mentoring and providing directions to design teams to efficiently and collaboratively develop conceptual, preliminary and final design for highway and related facilities. Work with quality team to implement quality management activities within project execution. Collaborate with global design teams to share and incorporate best practices amongst highway design communities.

Conduct regular check-ins with state area leads to assess performance of the teams, identify best practices and areas of improvements. Participating in business development activities including client visits, marketing strategy development and proposal preparations. Specific role may include serving as project pursuit lead in key opportunities to guide our team towards efficient development of proposal to maximize Arcadis' chances to selection.

Qualifications & Experience: Required Qualifications 20 or more years of relevant engineering experience. Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or related field. Professional Engineering license in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio or Tennessee, or the ability to obtain one within 6 months.

Key Skills/Attributes Ability to oversee a growing design group following Arcadis' process and industry best practices. In-depth understanding of multiple State DOT project delivery processes. In-depth understanding of various delivery methos including design-bid-build, design build and other alternative delivery methods Ability to recruit staff in southeast US.

Why Arcadis. We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters.

It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together. You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy. Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions.

These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $151911 - $193686.

Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location. #LI-VJ1 #Mobility-US-Jobs #ANA-Stormwater #LI-Hybrid


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About Arcadis

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Our work with clients has a direct impact on people's lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth's resources, we can create a sustainable planet. We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients' most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.

Industry

Engineering professional services

Company size

10,000+ Employees

Headquarters location

Highlands Ranch, CO, US