What would it feel like to be part of a company guided by engaged and empowered employee-owners? To have the encouragement to run with innovative ideas? To know your opinion is valued and your voice is heard? Wouldn't you love to work in an atmosphere of transparency, respect, and accountability?

Then you belong at SEH.

SEH is currently searching for a talented Senior Civil Engineer / Project Manager to work with key clients in our growing western Michigan practice! This position is open to individuals in Muskegon, Grand Rapids, or surrounding areas in Michigan!

Your options as a civil engineer are endless at SEH. You’ll engineer better communities -- complete streets, safer sidewalks, more sustainable utilities, and trails and parks. Others specialize in large-scale projects, like flood control facilities, dams, landfills, harbors/marinas, structural retaining walls and larger geotechnical projects. Regardless of the project, you’ll have your hands in the mix through all phases of a project: planning, pre-design, design, contract documentation, bidding and construction. As people walk, drive, bike or commute through a community or across a landscape, your expertise is positively impacting their daily lives.

The Opportunity:

• Immediate involvement in on-going projects where you’ll provide your technical expertise
• Our ESOP provides you an opportunity to own part of the company – 100% of our profits are re-invested in our Employee Owners!
• SEH supports you living your best life! We offer flexible work arrangements and schedules, so you have options that work for you.
• We want you to have options to celebrate the holidays important to you and your family through our flexible paid holiday program.
• Our Paid Family Leave benefit allows you to be there for the people you love - whether it’s the family you were born into or the family you chose.

What you will be doing:

• Manage, plan, develop, coordinate and direct multiple projects for a variety of clients
• Collaborate with architects and other engineering disciplines to solve challenges and provide solutions
• Mentor junior level staff to help foster a positive team environment
• Represent SEH with local governments, municipalities and other agencies at project and public meetings
• Respond to RFQ’s
• Prepare project approaches, scopes and fees required to complete projects
• Partner with business development staff to present proposals to clients, interview for projects, and select project teams

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering
• Registered as a Professional Engineer in the State of Michigan
• Minimum of ten (10) years previous experience with design and project management of municipal infrastructure and/or land development projects
• Experience in proposal writing and client management; demonstrated ability to develop new business opportunities and win project proposals.
• Must be in Muskegon, Grand Rapids, or other locations in Western Michigan

Preferred Qualifications:

• Fifteen (15)+ years of previous experience in the Civil Engineering field
• Five (5) years of experience managing projects and/or developing client relationships
• Experience developing and mentoring junior staff

Who we are

Better Places. Clean Water. Renewing Infrastructure. Improving Mobility. Together with clients, we’re simplifying the world’s most complex challenges. And we’ve been doing this since 1927. SEH is employee-owned and our 800+ engineers, architects, planners, scientists and a wide array of professionals unite behind our core purpose of Building a Better World for All of Us®. You’ll find our employee-owners located across the U.S. and evidence of our work in nearly every state.

Base compensation is expected to be in the range of $125,000 and $155,000 based on skill set and experience. Check out our full benefits package at, SEH Hiring Journey

The selected candidate must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. without requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future. We are unable to provide or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role.

For confidential consideration, apply online or send your resume and salary requirements via fax to 651.490.2138. Please refer to the job title if you choose to fax.

Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees according to all applicable equal opportunity and affirmative action laws, directives and regulations of federal, state and local governing bodies and agencies. In keeping with this commitment, it is the policy of Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, marital status, familial status, status with regard to public assistance, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or status as a covered veteran. Women and minorities encouraged to apply.

Notice to Third Party Agencies: SEH does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, staffing services, or other employment agencies. If a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed Service Agreement by SEH’s Director of Talent Attraction expressly requesting recruitment/staffing services for specific position(s), SEH reserves the right to pursue and hire these candidates without any financial obligation to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service. In such cases, any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, are deemed to be the property of SEH.

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