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Water Resource Project Manager

Wright-Pierce
Portland, ME Full Time
POSTED ON 12/31/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/15/2026
Wright-Pierce, an award-winning, multi-discipline environmental engineering firm specializing in water, wastewater and civil infrastructure, is seeking a licensed Water Resources Project Manager to join our company.

Salary range is $95,000 - $160,000/yr.

NOTE: Final salary is based on education, experience, certifications, and location.

Responsibilities

  • Perform engineering calculations and complete tasks with minimal supervision
  • Direct junior engineers in performance of technical tasks
  • Perform technical reviews of water resources technical analysis and design documents
  • Engineering planning, analysis, and design of water resources related systems and infrastructure including stormwater, floodplain, riverine, coastal, roadways, sites, dams, and bridges
  • Develop engineering proposals and presentations
  • Project management

Essential Functions

  • Strong communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
  • Personal organization and time management skills.
  • Able to build strong relationship with co-workers.
  • Committed to continual learning.
  • Excellent attention to detail.

Experience

  • 10 years of experience in Water Resources engineering required.
  • Hydrologic, Hydraulic, and Water Quality simulation and analysis (ie. ICPR; HEC-RAS; HEC-SSP; HEC-HMS; HydroCad; SWMM;) experience.
  • Experience with Surface water hydrology and GIS.
  • Experience with Open channel, gravity pipe, and bridge hydraulics.
  • Environmental Resource Permitting.

Certifications

  • Professional Engineer licensure required

Education

  • B.S. Degree in Civil Engineering or similar required
  • M.S. degree considered a plus

Office Location

  • Burlington, MA
  • Middletown, CT
  • Westfield, MA
  • Providence, RI
  • Portsmouth, NH
  • Bedford, NH
  • Portland, ME
  • Topsham, ME

Your Benefits

Wright-Pierce’s goal is to foster a culture of health and wellness. We accomplish this by creating a work environment that promotes healthy living, encourages volunteerism, and supports personal development and well-being. To achieve this goal, we offer a variety of benefits, some of which are highlighted below. Check out our full benefits overview for more.

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance beginning on date of hire
  • Wellness program with fitness reimbursement
  • Mental health and well-being benefit
  • Paid volunteer hours
  • 401(k) match with employer match and profit-sharing contribution with no vesting period
  • Defined career development path, mentorship program, and Wright-Pierce University training program
  • Paid time off, paid and floating holidays, and paid parental leave
  • Flexible work schedules and hybrid work environment

Best in Class Engagement

Our recent employee engagement survey, conducted by The Employee Engagement Group, revealed a highly engaged workforce with 87% responding and 94% of respondents indicating they would recommend Wright-Pierce as a place to work. These results are best-in-class for the A/E/C industry and reflect our commitment to creating a positive work environment. The firm’s top performing areas, based on employee feedback, include respect for others, opportunities to socialize, career opportunities, and life-work balance.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Wright-Pierce we are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. We strongly encourage women, minorities, people with disabilities, and veterans to apply.

This applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Salary : $95,000 - $160,000

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