Consulting Senior Associate, Civil Engineer

Build the foundations of a more sustainable future At ERM, your early‑career experience won’t be spent on the sidelines. As a Consulting Senior Associate, Civil Engineer, you’ll play an active role in shaping real-world projects that support renewable energy, infrastructure resilience, and environmental remediation.

Based in our Washington, DC, Richmond, Virginia or Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this role offers hands-on technical growth, exposure to complex engineering challenges, and the chance to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across North America and globally—all while contributing to work that truly matters.

Why This Role Matters ERM is a global leader in sustainability and environmental consulting, and our engineering teams are at the heart of delivering solutions that balance development, environmental protection, and community needs. In this role, you’ll support projects that enable cleaner energy, safer sites, and more resilient infrastructure—helping clients move from planning to implementation with confidence.

This is an opportunity to grow your technical foundation, build consulting and project delivery skills, and gain both office and field experience early in your career, all while being part of a collaborative, purpose-driven organization. What

Your Impact

• Is Support the planning, design, permitting, and construction of site civil and remedial engineering projects.
• Contribute to renewable energy installations, electric transmission and distribution facilities, and site remediation projects.
• Help deliver high-quality engineering solutions by producing construction drawings, technical specifications, calculations, and permit applications.
• Support project controls and management activities, including scheduling, cost estimating, labor resourcing, and progress tracking.
• Collaborate with engineers, scientists, and project managers across disciplines and geographies.
• What You’ll Bring You’re curious, motivated, and ready to learn.
• You enjoy both technical problem-solving and working as part of a team, and you’re excited about gaining exposure to diverse projects and environments.
• You’re comfortable balancing independent work with collaboration and are open to travel and fieldwork as part of your professional development.
• Required B.S. or M.S. in Civil or Environmental Engineering (preferred). Or equivalent experience.
• Engineer-in-Training (EIT) certification in place or eligible. 1–2 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with Auto
• CAD, Civil 3D, and GIS. Strong verbal, written, and computer skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel.
• This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.
• Preferred Familiarity with Microsoft Project, scheduling, and construction management.
• Exposure to consulting or construction-related project environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in projects on a global platform, in varied settings that require creative and practical engineering solutions.
• Prepare site civil designs, including earthwork and site grading, access roads, erosion and sediment control, and stormwater management.
• Develop construction drawings, technical specifications, calculations, and contract documents.
• Prepare application packages for land disturbance permits, construction stormwater permits, and related construction permits; support land use permit applications.
• Use Auto
• CAD and GIS to develop engineering designs.
• Conduct field investigations, construction oversight, and quality assurance activities.
• Evaluate field data; perform calculations; and prepare engineering reports, cost estimates, schedules, and progress tracking reports.
• Collaborate with scientists and engineers across site investigation, risk management, planning, design, and construction disciplines.
• Work both independently and as part of global, multidisciplinary project teams.
• Participate in a center-of-excellence engineering team to help develop innovative designs and oversee implementation.
• ERM offers a collaborative culture, exposure to impactful projects, opportunities for professional growth, and flexibility through hybrid/remote work options.
• For the Consulting Senior Associate, Civil Engineer position, the anticipated annual base pay is $75,788–$93,213 (USD). Actual pay will depend on factors such as education, experience, skills, location, performance, and business needs.
• In some cases, pay may fall outside this range.
• This role may be eligible for bonus pay (casual and fixed term/flex force employees are not bonus eligible). We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, parental leave, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, AD&D insurance, 401(k) or RRSP/DPSP, and other applicable benefits to eligible employees.
• Note: Bonuses, commissions, and other forms of additional compensation are not guaranteed and subject to the sole discretion of ERM and its policies and procedures.

Who We Are

As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.

At ERM we know that creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment is an essential part of making our company a great place to build a career. We also see our diversity as a strength that helps us create better solutions for our clients.

Our diverse team of world-class experts supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technical expertise in addressing their environmental, health, safety, risk and social issues.

We call this capability our “boots to boardroom” approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level. Please submit your resume and brief cover letter. ERM does not accept recruiting agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, ERM employees or any other company location.

ERM is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. ERM is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Thank you for your interest in ERM! #LI-Hybrid At ERM, sustainability is our business. We are the world’s largest advisory firm focused solely on sustainability, offering unparalleled expertise across business and finance. ERM partners with clients to operationalize sustainability at pace and scale, through our unique combination of strategic transformation and technical delivery capabilities.

Our diverse global team of experts works with the world’s leading organizations to help them set clear sustainability targets, measure progress and operationalize strategy through deep implementation and business transformation.

With more than 50 years of experience, our ability to integrate sustainability solutions and our depth and breadth of technical knowledge are why organizations choose to partner with us as their trusted advisor.

Every one of us firmly believes in the potential to create value for our clients through an integrated approach to sustainability (because we have personally seen it and professionally achieved it). Our team members are passionate about client service.

We work closely with our clients to help them operationalize their sustainability goals and meet their environmental, health and safety objectives while advancing ERM’s purpose through delivering tangible progress in what the United Nations coined The Decade of Action.

Organizing our people across globally integrated communities of technical and strategic talent positions ERM to be a “boots to boardroom” leader in bringing that value creation to our clients, partners, and the world. We recruit exceptional professionals with a personal and professional passion for sustainability and nurture them to even greater success as specialists.

We prepare our consultants to bring integrated, innovative and sustainable solutions to our clients and provide opportunities for ongoing development across a variety of subject areas related to technical, business, and personal growth. At ERM, effort pays off and becomes career defining work that leaves a positive imprint on our planet.

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