Civil/Water Resources Engineer

Founded in 1981, AKRF is an award-winning consulting firm with 300 professionals bringing the value of strategic thinking to our land development, transportation, energy, and water clients. We serve our clients through a commitment to technical excellence across our portfolio of professional services, while always acting with integrity and fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and environmental stewardship. Offices are located throughout New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Connecticut, and the company completes projects around the country.

Professionals join and remain at AKRF for our corporate-casual environment that values flexible work and hybrid schedules and locations, and balances award-winning planning, engineering, and environmental projects with social impact initiatives, charitable giving, and plenty of fun and games. Our firm fosters a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where employees are respected and valued in honor of their identities; we strive to deliver on this promise every day.

We are seeking a full-time, Civil/Water Resources Engineer in our Maryland office location, to support our clients growing green infrastructure, climate adaptation, urban flood resiliency, stormwater management, and stream and floodplain restoration projects in the Mid-Atlantic region. This individual will have the opportunity to work and train directly under guidance from senior support staff until such time that they can serve as the primary client service manager for a growing set of projects in the Prince George's County, MD area. This person will also support our Hanover, MD, and Philadelphia, PA, office locations on environmental-related project work throughout the region.

Job Responsibilities:

• Act as client service manager for existing AKRF water resources projects in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and throughout the region.
• Coordinate and direct field efforts for stormwater management practice maintenance teams.
• Conduct regular meetings between client, County, subcontractors, and regulatory agency partners, with support from senior staff.
• Issue task order work to subcontractors for repair of stormwater facilities.
• Interpret construction documents and specifications for stormwater management, urban flood resiliency, and stream restoration projects.
• Support related research, operations and maintenance, asset management, regulatory compliance, and program development tasks to supplement core engineering assignments.
• Managing and updating task budgets and schedules.

Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Civil, Environmental, or Water Resources Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Must be a current resident of the Prince George's County, MD, resident, or ability to become a Prince George's County resident within 6 months of employment.
• 3-8 years of prior relevant experience in the fields of green stormwater infrastructure, urban stormwater infrastructure, wet weather planning/management, stream restoration, ecosystem restoration, climate adaptation planning or related disciplines.
• Must have a valid driver’s license.
• EIT or the ability to obtain within 2 years of employment.
• Desire a mix of office and field work with occasional regional travel.
• Experience using ArcGIS preferred but not required.
• Strong attention to detail, written and verbal communication skills, and a penchant for innovative approaches to problem solving.

This position entails some field-related assignments in the Counties surrounding Maryland and Washington DC areas, which requires local travel. Non-field assignments will be conducted both remotely and in the office.

AKRF enforces a policy of equal employment opportunity in our daily operations. The firm has a demonstrated history of hiring, training, developing, promoting and retaining minority group members and women. All employment-related decisions are based solely on relevant criteria and without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, sexual identity, caregiver status, military/veteran status or citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.