Project Engineer

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

• 4+ 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.) preferred, 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

Compensation & Benefits
The Annual Salary for this role is $85,000-$124,000. This will be dependent on the experience and expertise of the incoming candidate.
We offer competitive salaries and benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. Harris & Associates is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an EEO/AA employer. We invite resumes from all interested and qualified candidates including women, minorities, veterans and persons with disabilities.
Harris & Associates is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital status, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.