Senior Water Resources Engineer

Senior Water Resources Engineer

Play an integral role in Worley Consulting’s growing Water Practice, where you will help clients address some of the most complex water management challenges across the mining, refining, chemicals, infrastructure, and environmental sectors. This role offers the opportunity to influence strategic project outcomes, strengthen client relationships, mentor emerging professionals, and contribute to the growth of a leading North American water resources team. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary experts to deliver innovative, sustainable, and practical solutions that support our clients’ operational and environmental objectives.

Purpose of the role

As a Senior Water Resources Engineer, you will provide technical leadership, project management, and client advisory services for a broad range of water resources projects across North America. You will serve as a trusted advisor to clients, lead multidisciplinary project teams, and support business development initiatives that expand Worley Consulting’s water services portfolio. This role combines technical excellence, commercial awareness, and people leadership to drive successful project delivery and sustainable business growth.

Location(s)

This is a full-time, hybrid position based at a Worley U.S. office. 

US Locations include Houston, TX Long Beach/Monrovia, CA; Denver, CO; Baton Rouge, LA; Charleston, WV; and Reading, PA.

Travel may be required to support project execution, client engagement, and business development activities.

You will be responsible for

• Leading the planning, execution, and delivery of complex water resources projects while maintaining safety, quality, schedule, and budget objectives.
• Providing technical leadership in hydrology, hydraulics, surface water management, watershed planning, stormwater management, water balance assessments, and civil water infrastructure projects.
• Managing multidisciplinary project teams and providing mentorship and guidance to junior and intermediate engineers and scientists.
• Building and maintaining strong client relationships while identifying opportunities to expand services and deliver additional value.
• Supporting business development strategies through proposal preparation, client engagement, market awareness, and pursuit of new opportunities.
• Collaborating with sector leaders and technical specialists across mining, refining, chemicals, infrastructure, power, and environmental markets to deliver integrated client solutions.
• Applying advanced water resources modeling and analysis using tools such as HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, GoldSim, SWMM, and PCSWMM.
• Leading dam safety assessments, dam breach evaluations, flood studies, drainage assessments, and related engineering investigations.
• Ensuring all work is performed in accordance with Worley’s commitment to health, safety, environmental stewardship, and operational excellence.
• Staying informed of emerging industry trends, technologies, regulations, and best practices to support innovation and continuous improvement.