Project Engineer

at  Harris Associates

CIVIL PROJECT ENGINEER

For over 50 years, Harris & Associates has helped to improve communities and create better places to live through smart, safe, more sustainable planning, design and construction solutions. Harris is a 100% employee-owned company focused on solving today’s complex challenges in planning, design, and construction of public infrastructure. Our offices and project sites span the West Coast in California, and Washington with a staff of over 260 employee owners focused on serving clients in the municipal, water, transportation, and education markets.
Harris is looking for a Water focused Project Engineer to join our dynamic Design & Engineering team in Concord, California.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Experience with project design and permitting, construction coordination, and providing regular communication
• Designing water transmission, distribution systems, pumping stations, sanitary sewer conveyance systems, storm drain culvert and channels, & water treatment systems
• Assisting in the preparation and review of engineering plans, specifications and legal documents, correspondences, reports and proposals.
• Attend meetings and communicate with clients, government entities, and various regulatory agencies to fulfill any regulations and requirements relating to projects
• Traveling to job sites for site visits, data collection, and meetings, as required
• Serving as a liaison on behalf of various cities to private engineers, surveyors, developers, other public agency employees and engineers, and the general public.
• Coordinating and overseeing the work of sub-consultants; explaining procedures, checking work for conformance with standards.
• Coordinating with state, county, utility companies, and other agencies for project approval and construction.
• Representing Harris and Associates and various cities at a variety of meetings.
• Assisting in the administration of State and Federal grant funding applications.
• Assisting with the issuance of encroachment permits for various cities.
• Assisting with the preparation of proposals and other marketing documents

Qualifications & Skills

• 3+ years of engineering experience
• Applies deep understanding to design projects and coordinates detailed aspects of the engineering work, including PS&E activities, and preparing project specific analyses, calculations, and modeling
• Experience performing hydraulic modeling (using programs such as EPA SWMM, Innovyze ICM, InfoWater, InfoSWMM, PC SWMM, HEC-RAS, etc.)
• Engineer In Training (E.I.T.) Certificate Required, Professional Engineering (P.E.) License preferred
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
• Positive attitude, self-motivated; sense of urgency to produce high quality work
• Entrepreneurial spirit with the potential/desire to lead a practice and manage clients and a team
• Computer skills preferred including AutoCAD, Civil 3-D, MicroStation, Word, Excel
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Valid CA Driver’s License

• Experience with project design and permitting, construction coordination, and providing regular communication
• Designing water transmission, distribution systems, pumping stations, sanitary sewer conveyance systems, storm drain culvert and channels, & water treatment systems
• Assisting in the preparation and review of engineering plans, specifications and legal documents, correspondences, reports and proposals.
• Attend meetings and communicate with clients, government entities, and various regulatory agencies to fulfill any regulations and requirements relating to projects
• Traveling to job sites for site visits, data collection, and meetings, as required
• Serving as a liaison on behalf of various cities to private engineers, surveyors, developers, other public agency employees and engineers, and the general public.
• Coordinating and overseeing the work of sub-consultants; explaining procedures, checking work for conformance with standards.
• Coordinating with state, county, utility companies, and other agencies for project approval and construction.
• Representing Harris and Associates and various cities at a variety of meetings.
• Assisting in the administration of State and Federal grant funding applications.
• Assisting with the issuance of encroachment permits for various cities.
• Assisting with the preparation of proposals and other marketing document