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Sr. Dam and Levee RIDM Engineer

Freese & Nichols
full-time
Raleigh, North Carolina
Posted 10/22/2026

Job Description

Freese and Nichols is seeking Sr. Dam and Levee RIDM Engineer in Raleigh, North Carolina. You will provide senior-level knowledge and technical direction for dam and levee safety projects, with responsibility for designs and studies and a focus on building and advancing our Risk Informed Decision Making (RIDM) capabilities.

What You’ll Do

• Help build Freese and Nichols’ Risk Informed Decision Making (RIDM) practices and resources for dam and levee safety and engineering.

• Serve as Project Manager for dam assessment and rehabilitation projects.

• Serve as a senior advisor on dam assessment and design projects, providing technical direction and quality oversight.

• Provide technical oversight for geotechnical engineering related to dams, levees, and water resources projects.

• Strengthen Freese and Nichols’ support of USACE dam safety programs and production centers to enhance our capabilities as a preferred provider.

• Supervise engineers, technicians, designers, and drafting personnel and coordinate assigned work to ensure continuity, consistency, and quality.

• Evaluate project decisions to ensure soundness of design and impacts to scope, schedule, and budget, and communicate updates to the appropriate project and group leadership.

• Stay current on regulations and related technological advancements and participate in contract administration, interpretation, and implementation.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.

• Professional Engineer (PE) registration.

• 8+ years of experience, including experience making independent decisions on engineering problems and methods.

• Familiarity with advanced techniques and the modification and extension of engineering theories, precepts, and practices.

Preferred

• Experience directing and supervising complex studies and investigations and developing recommendations and conclusions for final reports.

• Experience serving as Project Manager for large, complex projects requiring intergroup coordination and consultant management.

• Extensive experience engaging clients, client staff, and regulatory agencies.

• Active participation in continuing education and professional activities.

• Publication history in technical periodicals.

About Freese and Nichols

At the heart of our culture is our LEADS values (Learn continuously, Engage as family, Act with integrity, Deliver quality, and Serve always).  Each year, our employee engagement survey confirms that our leaders and our employees live our values.

We strive to be the firm of choice for clients and employees through innovative approaches, practical results, and outstanding service.  For more than 130 years, we have been planning and designing the infrastructure our communities need:  developing water supplies, designing roadways and bridges, preparing for natural disasters, and much more.

Besides our comprehensive benefits package (see more at Benefits That Work for You), we offer paid overtime for salaried employees, an annual bonus, and access to company cabins in Red River, New Mexico and Banner Elk, North Carolina.  We are proud of our flexible work environment which includes a hybrid schedule with up to 40% of remote work, and an alternative work schedule program which provides a day off every other Friday.

Join our team of 1,300+ employees as we grow from Virginia to Colorado. Learn more about working here at Working at Freese and Nichols.

Freese and Nichols is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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About the job

Job Type

full-time

Location

Raleigh, North Carolina

Category

Geotechnical

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