Resilience Project Engineer

HNTB Corporation•Boston, MA

20h•Onsite

About The Position

The future of transportation is complex, evolving rapidly, and confronted with increased risk from climate hazards. HNTB’s Resilient Infrastructure Solutions (RIS) team partners with clients to assess their vulnerability to extreme weather events and identify cost-effective solutions to mitigate risk and withstand changing conditions. We help clients navigate the uncertainty of the future through integrated services that prepare, adapt, and respond to change. Our growing RIS team is seeking a creative, organized, and experienced engineer eager to work on some of the region’s most exciting and transformative transportation projects. In this role, you will assist the development of climate resilience strategies for projects that prioritize safety, reduce disruption, protect our environment, and weather the complex, rapidly evolving future of our climate and the transportation sector. You will perform analyses and assessments that integrate resilience and environmental excellence into our client’s decision-making processes for programs, capital plans, and projects. This position will offer opportunities to expand your career in a multitude of directions, working alongside some of the region’s best engineers and planners, and mentoring junior staff. As our RIS team grows, the ideal candidate should be able to share their experience with others in a way that promotes the development of less experienced staff and improves the performance of the whole team. This position will primarily support resilience projects in the Northeast Division out of HNTB’s Boston office, including supporting the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT), Massachusetts Bay Transportation Agency (MBTA), with opportunities to support other transportation agencies across the country.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 6 years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree in Engineering and 5 years of relevant experience, or PhD in Engineering and 4 years of relevant experience

Nice To Haves

Experience managing and coordinating work (planning and design) effectively across multiple technical disciplines and delivering projects successfully, profitably, and to the client’s satisfaction.
Experience leading technical work in areas such as vulnerability/risk assessments, flood modeling, infrastructure planning, resilience standards, nature-based solutions, and/or economic and demographic analyses.
Leverage knowledge of civil engineering practices, such as hydrology and open channel hydraulics, bridge design, geotechnical engineering, etc., and associated requirements and technical resources/codes that govern these practices.
Ability to review plans and project documents (plans and specifications) for resilience considerations (re: heat, flooding, extreme precipitation, extreme storms, winter weather, and wind) and coordinate considerations across the project team, client, and regulators to communicate risk.
Excellent oral and written communication skills to support client service management, proposal preparation, and deliverables.
Ability to manage time, proactively forecast, and communicate project development needs.
Professional Engineer (PE) certification.
8 years relevant experience
Experience coordinating with clients to progress projects and build effective relationships.
Robust knowledge of the science and maths behind published climate data/maps and projections, including assumptions made in their development, and experience using these data/maps to identify appropriate usage, inform decision-making, and establish limitations.
Awareness of Federal and state (MA, CT, NJ, NY, ME, RI, VT) climate-, emergency management-, and resilience-related laws and regulations, as well as best practice standards and guidance.
Familiarity with on-going research and planning related to climate and resilience by Federal agencies (e.g., FEMA, USACE, NOAA, HUD), State agencies, metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), and other regional or local entities.
Experience in probability and statistics applied to scenario-based planning with consideration for climate projections and economic impacts.
Experience conducting flood risk assessments using established software packages (e.g., HEC-FDA, G2CRM, beach-fx) or related economic modeling software.
Familiarity working with transportation demand models (e.g., TDM 23).
Capable of scripting analytical tools (e.g., Python, SQL, R) and able to leverage AI to automate workflows, enhance analysis, or build reproducible processes, where appropriate.
Experience or familiarity with the following computer applications: ArcMap/ArcPro, ArcGIS Online, Tableau, Power BI, Python, AWS, and other data processing, visualization, and cloud-based tools.

Responsibilities

Responsible for the planning and distribution of discipline-specific work, and adherence to the schedule and budget on projects.
Assists in marketing responsibilities, including proposal generation.
Assists with the development of scope of work and level of effort for projects and/or assignments within discipline.
Oversees completeness and accuracy of project team’s work within the technical discipline.
Guides and mentors team to overall project objectives.
Coordinates technical aspects of project with client counterpart and teaming partners at staff level for work within the discipline.
Works closely with other disciplines on multi-discipline projects.
Performs other duties as assigned.