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If you’re someone who sees problems as opportunities, you’ll thrive here. RESPEC is 100% employee-owned, which means we take ownership of every challenge. Here, your ideas drive real solutions. Since 1969, we’ve tackled complex challenges in energy transition, infrastructure resilience, digital transformation, and sustainability.
At RESPEC, you’ll work alongside clients to take on critical problems. Depending on your expertise, you might design infrastructure in remote locations, develop renewable energy solutions for global projects, or apply data-driven technology to improve mining and water systems.
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Job DescriptionRESPEC is seeking a motivated Early Career Engineer to provide project design in our San Antonio or Castroville, Texas offices. This role involves all aspects of planning and design services related to the stormwater and water resources engineering field. You will play a key role in delivering high-quality engineering solutions while collaborating with project teams and expanding your stormwater technical knowledge. This position is a hands-on position in our H&H sector, in a successful and continually growing employee-owned company. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Work on hydrology and hydraulic (stormwater) projects from conception through completion, for both public and private work
- Prepare H&H models & designs, generate exhibits and technical reports
- Help in construction plan production, opinions of probable costs and development support tasks
- Help develop project deliverables, permitting and general stormwater design
- Coordinate with regulatory agencies and internal teams to ensure project success.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering, environmental engineering, or a related engineering field
- 1 to 4 years of relevant experience in the stormwater-engineering field
- Practical application of the various hydrology/hydraulics software including, HEC-RAS (1D / 2D), HEC-HMS, Hydraflow, Flowmaster, StormCAD and EPASWMM
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Preferred:
- Engineer-in-Training (EIT) certification or have ability to obtain within a year of employment
- Experience in developing and preparing stormwater drainage reports, Conditional Letters of Map Revisions (CLOMR) and Letters of Map Revision (LOMR) for FEMA, permitting and stormwater
- Experience with AutoCAD C3D and GIS.
Compensation:
Salary depends on experience and expertise. Compensation includes a comprehensive fringe-benefits package. RESPEC is a 100 percent employee-owned company and employees are eligible for participation in the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) after a qualifying period.
Featured benefits include:
- Paid Parental Leave
- 401(k) & ESOP (with company match up to 4%)
- Professional Development and Training
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program
- Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance Plans
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
Equal Opportunity Employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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What We Do
In a world where one superhero can handle almost any problem, our entire team of award-winning technology experts is on a mission to make your business better.
With extra vision to see solutions that others can’t and vast knowledge to bridge the gaps that others don’t, we’re transformers with the know-how to solve the world’s hardest problems. At RESPEC, we thrive on technology and making our clients successful. This is why we do what we do.
From the depths of a cavern to the heights of a volcano, from an antiquated computer system to a business in dire need of re-engineering, our technical and business experts find solutions for extreme situations... like the time we cleansed and migrated 100 million rows of legacy data or the time we protected Mt. Rushmore.
Know-How is Everything.
We use our resourcefulness and vast experience to solve problems. It’s called know-how. And when you have it, problems aren’t problems at all. Know-how defines the core of who we are. It is how our clients see us. Know-how speaks to ingenuity, aptitude, and skill—it is not merely knowledge; it is knowledge on how to get things done. Imagine having access to a think tank with hundreds of diversely talented engineers, scientists, programmers, and developers under one roof—that’s RESPEC. Each team member is highly trained and skilled in understanding and applying the laws of a specific universe to solve any kind of problem. That’s why we have to talk about our team in terms of superheroes.
