Founded in 1981, AKRF is an award-winning consulting firm with 300 professionals bringing the value of strategic thinking to our land development, transportation, energy, and water clients. We serve our clients through a commitment to technical excellence across our portfolio of professional services, while always acting with integrity and fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and environmental stewardship. Offices are located throughout New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Connecticut, and the company completes projects around the country. 

Professionals join and remain at AKRF for our values that balances signature projects with social impact initiatives, charitable giving, and flexibility that’s important to our people. Most importantly, you can be yourself at AKRF. Our firm fosters a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where employees are respected and valued in honor of their identities and bring their whole self to work. We strive to deliver on this promise every day. 

Beautify neighborhoods. Build social capital. Create economic opportunity. Promote urban livability and public health. These are just some of the benefits attributed to improved water quality — and among the many rewards of a water resources career at AKRF, where we deliver integrated water solutions through smart science, creative problem solving, and the design of sustainable, resilient infrastructure. 

AKRF, Inc. is seeking a full-time Senior Project Manager/Senior Water Resources Engineer in our Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania office location, to support green infrastructure, climate adaptation, urban flood resiliency, stormwater management, and stream and floodplain restoration projects in the Mid-Atlantic region.

 Job Responsibilities:

• Provide project and technical management of major engineering design projects including site layout, grading, stormwater management, drainage/conveyance system design, and related supporting disciplines.
• Act as client service manager and/or project manager for existing AKRF water resources projects in Pittsburgh and throughout the region.
• Direct hydrologic and hydraulic analyses in connection with stormwater management, stream restoration, and flood mitigation planning projects.
• Lead the development of construction documents and specifications for stormwater management, urban flood resiliency, and stream restoration projects.
• Support related research, operations and maintenance, asset management, regulatory compliance, and program development tasks to supplement core engineering assignments.
• Managing and updating task budgets and schedules.
• Preparing technical proposals.

 Essential Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Water Resources Engineering, Civil Engineering, Environmental Science or a related discipline.
• 8 years of experience in the fields of urban green stormwater infrastructure, water/sewer linear infrastructure, wet weather planning/management, stream restoration, ecosystem restoration, climate adaptation planning or related disciplines, with an emphasis on design and planning work.
• Pennsylvania P.E. or the ability to obtain within 1 year of employment.
• Experience conducting hydrologic and hydraulic analysis using SWMM, Autodesk Storm & Sanitary Analysis, HydroCAD, and HEC-RAS strongly preferred.
• Desire a mix of office and field work with occasional regional travel.
• Experience using AutoCAD strongly preferred – knowledge of Autodesk Civil3D pipe network and corridor modeling is a plus.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and a penchant for innovative approaches to problem solving. 
• Experience integrating geospatial data/GIS in the infrastructure planning and design workflow is a plus.

AKRF, Inc. enforces a policy of equal employment opportunity in our daily operations. The firm has a demonstrated history of hiring, training, developing, promoting and retaining minority group members and women. All employment-related decisions are based solely on relevant criteria and without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, sexual identity, caregiver status, military/veteran status or citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.