Senior Sediment Remediation Design Engineer

Title: Senior Sediment Remediation Design Engineer
Location:  Portland, OR (Remote)
Job Description:

What’s the Opportunity?

Anchor QEA is seeking a senior design engineer and project manager with 10 to 15 years of relevant experience to deliver upland remediation and contaminated sediment cleanup projects in the Southeast. You will spend most of your time focused on developing solutions for our clients' most challenging issues, combining engineering design with management of scopes, schedules, budgets, and multidisciplinary teams. Your work will span investigations, feasibility studies, remedial excavation, dredging and capping design, contractor procurement, and engineering support during design and construction. You will collaborate with experienced scientists and engineers, mentor junior staff, and develop practical, protective remedies for rivers, lakes, and industrial waterfronts.

 

Responsibilities:

• Manage concurrent remediation projects and design tasks, coordinating staff, subcontractors, scopes, budgets, and schedules to meet client commitments and project financial goals.
• Prepare engineering calculations, basis of design reports, dredge plans, cap designs, construction drawings, specifications, and cost estimates for practical, protective sediment remedies.
• Plan investigations and evaluate sediment chemistry, bathymetry, geotechnical conditions, and other site data;
• Evaluate and compare remedial alternatives and their costs and benefits.
• Work with geotechnical, coastal, structural, groundwater modelers and environmental specialists across offices to address cap performance, cap settlement, dredge slope and riverbank stability, erosion, residuals, ground and surface water quality, and adjacent infrastructure.
• Develop approaches for dredging, capping, sediment processing, disposal, and habitat restoration.
• Support pilot studies through vendor coordination, permitting, field planning, and evaluation of results.
• Support contractor procurement, bid evaluation, submittal review, construction oversight, and resolution of field questions and proposed construction changes.
• Direct junior staff on project and field assignments, establish clear safety and technical expectations, verify their interpretation of results, and coach them in design and project management.
• Prepare and review reports, plans, specifications, and proposal content in accordance with project quality requirements.
• Communicate clearly with clients, agencies, contractors, and colleagues.
• Track progress and project costs, communicate status promptly, document and obtain authorization for scope and budget changes, and coordinate timely invoice preparation and follow-up on outstanding payments.
• Strengthen client relationships through reliable project delivery, recognize opportunities for additional work, and support proposals and selected client development activities.
• Travel to attend client meetings and site visits in person, up to 25% of the time depending on project stage.

 

What Are We Looking For?

Ideal candidates will have the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in civil, environmental, geotechnical, ocean, chemical, or a related engineering discipline.
• 10 to 15 years of relevant engineering experience, including hands-on contaminated sediment remedial design and project or task management.
• Professional Engineer license, or ability to obtain licensure within one year.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare engineering calculations, plans, specifications, cost estimates, and contractor procurement documents for upland and sediment cleanup projects.
• Experience with dredging and capping remedies and the design considerations that affect constructability, performance, and cost.
• Experience coordinating multiple assignments, managing budgets and schedules, tracking project financial performance, and communicating with clients and multidisciplinary teams.
• Working knowledge of CERCLA, RCRA, TSCA, CWA, and applicable state cleanup programs, with experience coordinating with regulatory agencies.
• Ability to work effectively with teams across multiple offices.
• Strong technical writing, communication, problem-solving, and mentoring skills; willingness to travel for project meetings and field assignments.

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or specialized experience in geotechnical, coastal, or sediment remediation engineering, including experience with dredge slope and riverbank/shoreline stability or cap design.
• Construction oversight or engineering support experience, including submittals, contractor coordination, and change evaluation.
• Environmental consulting experience, Bluebeam Revu and AutoCAD Civil 3D familiarity, and current 40-hour HAZWOPER training.

 

What Can You Expect?

A collaborative work environment where we encourage everyone to bring their authentic self. We offer competitive compensation and benefits.  Benefits are detailed below.  

 

Who Are We?

Anchor QEA provides environmental planning, science, and engineering consulting services with the mission of transforming our environment and communities with integrity and vibe. With more than 500 people in offices across the United States, our collective vision is to be an inclusive, sustainable, and growing environmental innovator making generational impacts. By embodying our core values, we strive to be our clients’ first choice for solving their most challenging problems and to be our employees’ reason to be excited about going to work each morning. Learn more about Anchor QEA at

Additional Information

We work hard to embrace diversity and inclusion. As an equal opportunity employer, Anchor QEA is committed to a diverse, multi-cultural work environment. Anchor QEA does not discriminate in employment based on age, race, creed, gender, religion, marital status, veteran’s status, national origin, disability or sexual orientation.  Employment is contingent upon satisfactory results of a comprehensive background check.

 

Salary and Other Compensation:

• Annual Bonus
• Other potential bonus types: Billable Time Bonus, Spot Bonus, Milestone Anniversary Bonus, Receiving Professional License/Certification Bonus, Peer-reviewed Publication Bonus, Employee Referral Bonus.

 

Base Level Benefits for Regular Full-Time Positions:

• Healthcare: Medical, dental, vision, basic life and AD&D insurance
• Paid Company and Floating Holidays: 7 paid company and 2 floating holidays annually
• Vacation: minimum 2 weeks accrued paid vacation based on length of service. Vacation may vary by level.
• Sick and Safe Time: 80 hours annually
• Retirement Plan: 401k plan with an employer match