Woodard & Curran is a national engineering, science, and operations firm with a simple vision for clean water, a safe environment, healthy communities, and happy people. As an employee-owned company, we strive to cultivate diverse teams and encourage collaboration in an equitable and inclusive culture. We seek talented individuals from all backgrounds to help us address a broad range of water and environmental issues. We prioritize our people, offering opportunities for professional growth, ownership, and flexibility. That’s how we make a difference to our clients, people, and the planet.
Who are we looking for:
Woodard and Curran are seeking a Stormwater/Drainage Technical Manager. This is an excellent career opportunity for an enthusiastic and talented individual to join an exciting team of professionals. The position offers excellent potential for professional growth in a vibrant working environment and an opportunity to provide innovative and creative design solutions to water resource projects. Typical projects involve assisting state and municipal clients throughout the United States in completing drainage design, stormwater management, floodplain management, and other watershed planning using green and gray infrastructure approaches.
Location: Candidate must be located at least within a 2-hour radius of Westchester County. Preferably: Rye Brook, NY, NJ, or CT
Office Preference: Remote
Travel: Open to travel to client sites
What You Will Be Doing at Woodard & Curran:
- Develop and conduct simulations of complex hydrologic and hydraulic drainage and river systems.
- Conduct watershed and stormwater management planning, permitting, and design.
- Provide technical guidance for hydrologic and hydraulic analyses using various techniques and models (e.g., HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, SWMM, etc.)
- Assist in the preparation of proposals, work scopes, and cost estimates.
- Serve as a mentor and assist junior-level staff/peers.
- Contribute technically to master plans, drainage, and regulatory compliance reports and presentations.
What You Will Need To Succeed:
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Environmental, or related field.
- 10+ years of stormwater hydrologic and hydraulic modeling experience.
- P.E. or NCEES certification, preferred, not required
- Knowledge/experience with some or all of the following models/software: HEC-RAS, HEC23, HEC18, HEC-HMS, SWMM, PCSWMM, 1D/2D modeling HEC-RAS, XPSWMM, Infoworks ICM, FLO2d, Mike Urban.
- Awareness of FEMA flood mapping processes and the Flood Insurance Program.
- Understanding of USACE and other Federal and State permitting processes.
- Experience in watershed and stormwater management, stormwater retrofits and green stormwater infrastructure strategies, surface hydrologic and hydraulic analysis, drainage, erosion and sediment control, sediment transport, and watershed/waterway modeling.
Benefits & Wellbeing
Retirement Savings:
• 401(k) Pre-tax or Roth Contributions: Company will match equal to 100% of the first 3% of salary contributed, All employees are eligible to participate in the 401(k) plan and are 100% vested in the value of own contributions and any employer matching contributions.
Time away from work:
• Vacation time is provided to full and part-time regular employees. Vacation is accrued, based on number of hours worked per week as well as prior years of experience.
• Woodard & Curran offers paid sick time to eligible employees who are absent due to their own non-work related, illness, injury, or medical procedure.
• Woodard & Curran provides up to 80 hours of Paid Parental Leave for child bonding in a 12-month period.
• Company-paid short- and long-term disability insurance from Sun Life to assist with replacing a portion of your income in the event of non-job-related illness or injury. Eligible employees are automatically enrolled and eligible immediately.
Coverage and support for your needs and wellbeing:
Personal and Family health: Company offers three medical plan options based on geography; plus HSA and PSA plans are available based on eligibility, additional options include dental and vision plans.
Company provides basic employee group life insurance and AD&D benefits; additional voluntary life insurance for employee and family are available through Sun Life.
WayForward powered by Dario: EAP Program combined with personalized mental health and wellbeing coaching.
LiveWell wellbeing program: credit incentive is available, up to $600 annually – nutrition and fitness reimbursement, and access to the Virgin Pulse wellness platform.
Education: Tuition assistance offers eligible employees up to 100% reimbursement of tuition, books and fees up to $5250 per year, for courses related to the employee’s job or planned career development.
Woodard & Curran is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. Individuals with Disabilities and Protected Veterans are encouraged to apply. We are committed to ensuring our employment practices are non-discriminatory and based solely on job-related factors. To read our entire Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement, click here. To view the Workplace Discrimination Is Illegal poster and supplement, click here.
If you have a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to apply, please contact Beth Sweitzer.
We value diversity, equity and inclusion and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.
Woodard & Curran believes that complex teams working together in an equitable, inclusive space provides the best opportunity for achieving our vision of clean water, a safe environment, healthy communities, and happy people. Our success is tied to a culture that embraces our differences so that everyone can bring their whole, authentic selves to work. When our people are supported to reach their full potential, we provide the most innovative, sound, and effective solutions.
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What We Do
Woodard & Curran is more than just a consulting firm – we are an integrated science, engineering, design-build, and operations company specializing in water and environmental projects. Our depth of experience across these disciplines makes us uniquely suited to handle any project with a completely tailored approach.
By partnering with our clients, adopting their priorities, and understanding the realities they face, we deliver one-of-a-kind answers to unique problems, with a truly collaborative working style. We believe that doing good work for our clients goes hand in hand with doing good work for the companies and communities we serve, and for the planet as a whole, and that all good work begins and ends with a happy, healthy team. These commitments — to each other, to our clients, and to the world around us — define Woodard & Curran.
