Engineering Director
Engineering Director
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27-04-2025
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WRA is seeking an Engineering Director to lead the Engineering Group within our interdisciplinary Riverscapes and Shorelines Team. The desired candidate will collaborate and engage both internally and externally to lead support and deliver a diverse range of design projects focused primarily on ecological restoration with the capability to support a variety of environmental projects across our firm.
You will join our team of restoration design professionals and scientists including engineers landscape architects fluvial geomorphologists hydrologists and ecologists. Our projects span a variety of ecosystems and types across California including San Francisco Bay tidal marshes and living shorelines Sierra Nevada meadow restoration Northern California Coast floodplain and salmonid restoration California Central Coast estuary restoration and Bay Area and Southern California urban stream rehabilitation. Additionally our team is actively growing and pursuing restoration work in Oregon. We are passionate about restoring riverine and coastal systems that support healthy and resilient natural and human communities and are invested in the entire restoration process from initial site selection to performance monitoring and adaptive management. We also frequently collaborate with our community resilience team to address challenges such as sealevel rise wildfire resiliency planning and postfire recovery.
WRA has a diverse portfolio of projects and clients including decadeslong private entities public agencies and nonprofit organizations. In addition to our technical expertise we help clients meet their goals and visions by providing grant fund cultivation preparing financial models partnering with investors engaging stakeholders and facilitation services.
We envision you working inperson at one of our San Francisco Bay Area offices or in a hybrid arrangement or remote location in this region of California. Other locations may be considered on a case by case basis. Regardless of your work arrangement inperson remote or hybrid you will be excited to collaborate with staff in many technical disciplines across the company.
At WRA you will have 4 major areas of impact:
1. Technical Skills:
- Provide technical expertise and strategic input to the development and implementation of complex restoration projects
- Oversee the production of conceptual plans construction drawings technical specifications and cost estimates for use in all design phases
- Provide construction administration and management services
2. Leadership:
- Utilize restoration experience to provide technical oversight of restoration conceptual plans construction drawings specifications cost estimates and relevant soil and hydrologic analyses
- Supervise manage direct and provide oversight of tasks and responsibilities for engineering staff and/or other technical support staff. Mentor and train engineering staff as needed
- Oversee project managers and design staff to ensure work quality and that projects meet budgets and deadlines
- Foster collaboration within an interdisciplinary team
- Assist with strategic planning for the Riverscapes and Shorelines Team
3. Management:
- Develop project work plans and scopes of work
- Providing project oversight and schedule monitoring
- Tracking and managing project budgets and invoicing
- Collaborate with our VP of Finance CEO and Director of Project Delivery to ensure staff resources are deployed in a productive and profitable manner and assess performance metrics across a diverse project portfolio
4. Business Development:
- Develop regional recognition through networking and events such as attending and presenting at conferences
- Advise clients on project issues to build business
- Collaborate with other senior staff to lead proposal efforts with existing and new clients
- Participate in various business development events and presenting at conferences
- Partner across WRA teams and market segments to assist on multidisciplinary project pursuits
To be successful in this role you will need:
- To be currently licensed as a Professional Civil Engineer in the state of California
- Minimum of 12 years of applicable professional experience
- A Bachelors degree in civil or environmental engineering or related field with an emphasis in water resources hydrology or hydraulic engineering from an accredited university
- A graduate degree in engineering or physical sciences is preferred
- Strong written and verbal communication abilities
- A passion for ecological restoration and connecting people from diverse backgrounds and locations with the outdoors and open spaces
- Familiarity with California ecosystems and regulatory environment
- Experience developing a portfolio of work
- A valid drivers license and reliable transportation (while WRA has fleet vehicles that can be reserved for field use during busy field seasons a truck may not be available)
WRA has an established internal leveling system for our staff that maps to salary bands that have been informed by market data. Our leveling system is dependent on years of relevant industry experience education and the level of responsibility and autonomy at which youre expected to operate.
The salary range for this position is $160000$190000. There will be opportunities to discuss this toward the end of the interview process; however if you wish to discuss this earlier in the interview process please do so in your initial interview.
Who are we
WRAs an employeeowned environmental consultancy. We are a tenacious team of planners engineers and scientists and we aim to leave the lands we love better than we found them.
Our clients and partners hire us because were skilled at navigating through challenging projects involving wildlands parks community spaces and infrastructure. We bring over four decades of expertise longstanding relationships and connections to our local communities to make sure that projects are pursued in responsible ways where both people and the environment thrive.
As an organization we believe that independence and interdependence are not mutually exclusive. We invest in systems processes and employee programs to support our staffs collective engagement and success. At the same time we encourage our employees to operate with an ownership mindset taking responsibility for outcomes and being true to our commitments.
WRAs company vision is to cultivate a sustainable future where people and the environment thrive and that effort starts first with our staff. We are committed to building a diverse equitable and inclusive work environment and we have developed flexible policies internal practices and are investing in programs that prioritize learning and sustainability. We aim to create conditions that allow employees to prioritize their families lead healthy and balanced lives and to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We believe that by creating an exceptional workplace our employees will be able to do their best work and be able to meaningfully contribute to the sustainability of the environment and the communities in which we live.
WRA is an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to creating a diverse environment. We recruit employ train compensate and promote regardless of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation disability age veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law.
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