Water Resources Design Engineer-Civil

Water Resources Design Engineer

Position Summary

Are you a Water Resources Design Engineer looking to expand your experience? VS Engineering needs a strong leader capable in complex design services for water resource engineering projects including water, wastewater, storm water, civil site, and/or watershed projects. An ideal candidate will also have IU Health experience. 

This a fantastic opportunity for someone who aspires to build toward project management experience who is energetic and eager to grow with a dynamic company. Our growth means your growth. If you are serious about career advancement opportunities and providing quality service to clients, come join our team!

Why Indianapolis?

Our Indianapolis Office is the headquarters for VS Engineering and boasts our largest Transportation, Water Resources, and Structural teams. Our Water Resources team includes a wide variety of experience levels with expertise in water, wastewater, and stormwater projects for local cities, counties, and the state. Our Noblesville office also offers an alternative location for employees' northeast of Indianapolis.

Your Role as a Design Engineer  

• Develop complete construction documents and specifications
• Participate and assist the team with creative planning, design and construction inspection of various civil engineering projects
• Lead the preparation of planning documents, engineering plans, details, reports, specifications and construction cost estimates
• Coordinate with clients, regulators and permitting agencies
• Contract administration and bidding support
• Compete field assignments as needed for data collection and field checks
• Prepare and contribute to portions of water resources project proposals, change orders, client contract and communication pertaining to specific projects.
• Generating water resources designs aligning with the most up to date design standards
• Research and prepare preliminary reports and feasibility studies.

What We Offer You

We provide you support from other highly skilled Project Managers & Technical Staff. In addition, we provide a 401(k) plan, rich coverage for major medical insurance, basic life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, generous paid time off (PTO) career development, remote work opportunities, and several others. We are proud of our family-like environment and our social events that prove work can be fun!

 What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Civil Engineering or a related Engineering degree from an ABET accredited program.
• Registered Professional Engineer in IN or KY or OH
• 5-7+ years' experience in designing water resource projects.
• Background working on public sector design projects like INDOT, county, and municipal design projects, etc.
• Experience with water and/or wastewater, combined sewer overflow consolidation, and municipal program management.
• Preferred technical knowledge / computer skills:
  • MicroStation/AutoCAD Civil 3D
  • ArcGIS, GIS, ArcMAP
  • Experience with various water resources software modeling packages.
  • Drainage software including StormCAD and CDSS
  • Microsoft Office products: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook
  • Adobe

What You Offer Us

• Willingness to take on new challenges, skills, and competencies in a full-service engineering firm.
• Ability to effectively discuss project timeline and issues with internal teams, clients and review agencies.
• Thorough understanding of codes, legal and design requirements in relevant jurisdictions
• Capable of solving complex problems using professional judgement, creativity, collaboration, and innovation
• Excellent time management skills
• High attention to detail/quality of work produced.
• Service oriented demeanor.

Our Mission Our purpose is to serve the communities we live in. With a focus on what we value most. Client focused; Trust; Work Hard. Together; Knowledge