Project Engineer

Founded in 1981, AKRF is an award-winning consulting firm with 400 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 corporate-casual environment that values flexible work schedules and locations, and balances award-winning planning, engineering, and environmental projects with social impact initiatives, charitable giving, and plenty of fun and games. Our cookie exchanges and ice cream socials are quite the treat.

The Engineering Department at AKRF is seeking a Project Engineer to work in our Asbury Park, NJ office. The candidate will have experience in stormwater management design and grading, utility design, drainage, soil erosion and sediment control design, and land use process in New Jersey. Candidates should desire a mix of projects that span planning through design, with occasional field work. 

 Job Requirements:

• Provide project and technical support for major engineering design projects including site layout, grading, stormwater management, drainage/conveyance system design, and related supporting disciplines.
• Support the development of construction documents and specifications for stormwater management.
• Support related research, operations and maintenance, asset management, regulatory compliance, and program development tasks to supplement core engineering assignments.
• Support the management and update of task budgets, schedules and deadlines including technical accuracy, awareness of scope and potential scope creep.
• Represent AKRF through direct client interactions on projects.
• Support the delivery of integrated and innovative outcomes through science, problem solving and design of sustainable resilient infrastructure. 
• Support the growing need for adaptation and resilience to climate change within our urban environment while promoting livability and public health to our communities. 

 Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering, Land Development or Water Resources Engineering, Environmental Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 3 to 5 years of experience in the fields of urban green stormwater infrastructure, water/sewer linear infrastructure, wet weather planning/management, climate adaptation planning or related disciplines, with an emphasis on design and planning work.
• EIT preferred.
• Valid driver’s license
• Experience using AutoCAD is strongly preferred to support our various design projects – knowledge of Autodesk Civil3D pipe network and corridor modeling is a plus.
• Experience using ArcGIS is strongly preferred for integrating geospatial data in infrastructure planning and design.
• Experience conducting hydrologic and hydraulic analysis using SWMM, Autodesk Storm & Sanitary Analysis, InfoWorks, HydroCAD is a plus.
• Proficient skills in:
  • Technical writing
  • State and federal regulations
  • Local and county zoning regulations and ordinances 
  • Interpretation of data and observations to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry guidelines. 
  • Site layout design, topographic grading, and stormwater management. Preparation of graphs, charts, tables, and statistical models from synthesized data in all reports

 What AKRF is offering:

We provide employees with a benefit package that reflects our respect for your workplace contributions, professional goals, and personal priorities. The benefits program at AKRF includes:

• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance
• Vacation and Sick time
• Flexible work schedules and locations
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching
• Additional Voluntary Life Insurance
• Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Training and professional development courses
• Opportunities for community outreach through internal networks
• Charitable donation match
• Transit/parking program

 Compensation to commensurate with experience. 

AKRF 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.