We are Herrera

Envision yourself at a growing, employee-owned company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best performance while making a difference in the world. 

We are Herrera, a science, planning, and design consulting firm dedicated to working with clients to develop holistic solutions that provide social and environmental benefit. We protect the environment every day by providing a diverse range of consulting services to cities, counties, state and federal agencies, Tribes, non-profits, and private clients throughout Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, and western Canada. 

For over 40 years, Herrera has cultivated a collaborative, caring, and values-driven culture that empowers our employee-owners to achieve excellence while ensuring we have fun along the way. By providing our employee-owners with the autonomy to pursue their professional interests and through encouraging them to grow, we benefit from high employee-owner retention that contributes to our longstanding partnerships with clients. 

Our Values

• Treat everyone with respect and dignity, always. 
• Insist on integrity, objectivity, and social and environmental ethics in our work. 
• Act as stewards of the environment upon which we depend. 
• Research and outreach, learn and teach.
• Employee owners, employee leaders.

Your Opportunity

Herrera seeks an engineer with 15 or more years of professional experience and expertise in planning and design of projects in rivers, streams, and floodplains. You will work as part of an integrated team with ecologists, landscape architects, engineers, and scientists to develop multi-disciplinary projects in complex ecological settings. The candidate will support a variety of mitigation, restoration, flood risk reduction, and infrastructure protection projects for public and private clients throughout the Western United States in collaboration with multidisciplinary internal and client project teams. Typical types of projects include:

• River and stream habitat restoration and enhancement
• Fish passage improvements
• Watershed and floodplain assessment and planning
• Coastal habitat restoration
• River and stream bank stabilization
• Flood control
• Infrastructure development and protection
• Support for other engineering and surface water management projects

Minimum Qualifications

Education, Experience, & Licensure/Certifications

• 15+ years of professional experience in concept development and design of stream and river restoration and floodplain management projects
• Bachelor's degree in civil or environmental engineering, or master's degree in civil or environmental engineering if undergraduate degree was not in engineering 
• Current professional engineer (PE) license in Washington or Oregon, or ability to readily obtain one via comity application based on licensure in another US state
• Familiarity with Washington State (e.g., SEPA, HPA, Shoreline) permitting requirements

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

Familiarity with West Coast watershed characteristics and processes, preferably within the Pacific Northwest 

Experience preparing design plans, construction specifications, an