
Water Resources Design Project Engineer
Houston, TXJob$87–131K/yrPosted 8mo agoStill listed today
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Job overview
Woolpert is hiring a Design Project Engineer for its Water Team in Houston, Texas. The role supports technical delivery and project-phase planning, budgeting, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting across water resources, drainage, utilities, and site civil design work. The engineer will contribute to project deliverables, manage project phases, analyze data, and help maintain quality and team technical competence.
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Full job description
At Woolpert, you’ll do work that matters.
As a leading global architecture, engineering, and geospatial firm, we help clients solve complex challenges that shape communities, strengthen critical infrastructure, advance technology, and improve the world around us. Here, you’ll collaborate across disciplines, tackle meaningful projects, and build a career defined by growth, opportunity, and impact.
Woolpert is hiring a Design Project Engineer to join our dynamic Water Team at our Houston, Texas office. This position is primarily responsible for assisting with technical delivery on projects as well as the budgeting, planning, scheduling, monitoring and reporting for specific project phase(s) and/or task(s). This position is key in establishing and improving levels of team technical competence, quality and efficiency.
This position will be part of a team engaging clients across the Water markets in support of client objectives in the areas of Water Resources Design, Drainage Design, Utilities Design, Site Civil Design, Data Analytics, Organizational Performance, Process Improvement, and related studies and analyses. This position will perform other duties as assigned.
We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must already possess work authorization in the country the job is located.
What You Will Do:
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Support various phases of our water/wastewater/stormwater/drainage design projects from communication with clients to deliverable generation.
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Perform technical aspects of specified deliverables and/or leads team of technical staff in creating deliverables consistent with scope, schedule and budget.
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Manage phases of projects, ensuring completion of work that meets quality assurance requirements.
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Perform field work, as needed.
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Analyze and interpret information, including field, H&H, and water quality data, to present to clients in a meaningful format
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Meet internal and/or external project deadlines.
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Complying with and implementing clearly defined QA/QC measures.
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Communicates issues affecting phase/task or project schedule, budget or quality and escalates unresolved issues to project manager, team leader, and/or discipline leader.
What You Will Bring:
Bachelor degree (BS) in Civil or related engineering program
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Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience
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Must be proficient in AutoCAD Civil3D, with optional proficiency in hydraulic and hydrologic modeling software
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Must be willing to perform technical tasks, as assigned, as well as ensure the completion of additional tasks by other team members.
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Must be willing to work collaboratively with existing team, including mentoring and cross-training
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Must possess strong communication skills, both written and oral.
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Must possess strong organizational skills to successfully manage multiple, competing priorities.
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Must be able to interface effectively with clients, team members, and other firm resources.
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Must be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
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Must be able to make sound decisions/recommendations based on the evaluation and synthesis of project information and data.
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Must be physically and mentally capable of performing all essential duties required of the position.
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Task management experience is preferred
Benefits You Will Love
Certified as a Great Place to Work, Woolpert is one of the fastest-growing architecture, engineering, and geospatial companies in the world. With over 75 offices and countless projects around the globe, you’ll work on meaningful assignments that improve quality of life around the world. In addition to offering competitive pay, we provide employees with a robust set of unique benefits, including:
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Freedom to Work program: Set your own schedule and location (as appropriate).
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Principal program: Earn the opportunity to become an owner of the firm.
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Flexible paid time off/vacation: Take time off when it makes sense for you and your team.
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Career development: Explore a wide range of learning and growth opportunities within and across industries.
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Health, life, vision, and dental insurance: Cover all your medical bases.
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Paid sick time, retirement plan, fitness reimbursement, pet insurance, identity protection, technology stipend, employee assistance program, and more!
Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Pay Range $87,100—$130,700 USD
Find out more about what Woolpert has to offer here: http://woolpert.com/about-us/
Woolpert is an equal-opportunity employer. Woolpert is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. You may view more about EEO on our website: Equal-Employment-Opportunity-The-Law.pdf and EEO is the Law Poster Supplement.
Applicants who require an accommodation throughout the application and interview process should request this in advance by contacting your Recruiter
To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of Woolpert or any of our subsidiaries about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at Woolpert via email, the internet, or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of Woolpert, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by Woolpert's Talent Acquisition Team for this requisition and a valid agreement is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of Woolpert's applicant process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.
How this job compares
Set against the 5,081 open Project Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$87–131K/yr
- Texas median$91–151K/yr155 salary ranges
- US median$95–141K/yr2,656 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $109K, is 11% below the Texas median midpoint ($122K) — in the middle half of Project Engineer salary ranges in Texas.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 487 open Project Engineer jobs in Texas and 5,081 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- Southland Industries27 open
- J.E. Dunn Construction Company26 open
- Kiewit25 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Project Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,964 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 3,124 of the 5,081 open Project Engineer jobs (61%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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