
Sr. Water Resources Engineer - Water Business
Fairfax, VAJob$75–113K/yrPosted 6mo agoStill listed today
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Job overview
Woolpert is hiring a Senior Water Resources Engineer for its Water Team in Virginia. The role supports technical delivery and project-phase planning, budgeting, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting across water, wastewater, and stormwater projects. The engineer may lead technical staff, manage project phases, perform field work, interpret data and stormwater models, and support stormwater design in accordance with local regulations and standards.
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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.
Position Overview Woolpert is hiring a Sr. Water Resources Engineer to join our dynamic Water Team in Virginia. 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.
We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must already possess work authorization in the country where the job is located.
What You Will Do:
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Support various phases of our water/wastewater/stormwater management projects, from communication with clients to deliverable generation.
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Perform technical aspects of specified deliverables and/or lead a 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 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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Comply with and implement clearly defined QA/QC measures.
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Communicate issues affecting phase/task or project schedule, budget, or quality and escalate unresolved issues to the project manager, team leader, and/or discipline leader.
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Support the development and advancement of stormwater design projects with consideration of local regulatory requirements and design standards.
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Analyze and interpret stormwater model results for project development and capital improvement program planning.
What You Will Bring:
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Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Biosystems, or a related engineering program.
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Minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience.
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Willingness to perform technical tasks as assigned, as well as ensure the completion of additional tasks by other team members.
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Strong communication skills, both written and oral.
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Strong organizational skills to successfully manage multiple, competing priorities.
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Ability to interface effectively with clients, team members, and other firm resources.
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Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
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Ability to make sound decisions/recommendations based on the evaluation and synthesis of project information and data.
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Task and personnel management experience is preferred.
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Registered Professional Engineer in Virginia, or the ability to obtain.
Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Pay Range $75,400—$113,200 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 441 open Water Resources Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$75–113K/yr
- Virginia median$96–145K/yr22 salary ranges
- US median$91–145K/yr270 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $94K, is 22% below the Virginia median midpoint ($121K) — in the lowest quarter of Water Resources Engineer salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 24 open Water Resources Engineer jobs in Virginia and 441 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- Stantec7 open
- Johnson, Mirmiran, and Thompson Inc.4 open
- HNTB3 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Water Resources Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (350 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 353 of the 441 open Water Resources Engineer jobs (80%) 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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