Build Your Dams and Levees Career at HDR

We’re seeking exceptional dam and levee engineers across North America. Where you live isn’t nearly as important as what you can do!

Apply Now for Dams and Levees Positions

Don’t see the role you’re looking for? Discover all of our current water job openings or Keegan.Yager [at] hdrinc.com (subject: Discuss%20HDR%20Transportation%20Opportunities) (contact us) to discuss.

If you have the right dams, levees and civil works experience and expertise, we would like to explore opportunities for you to work on our team. Join us, become an employee-owner, and start each workday with passion and purpose.

Thrive at HDR

With a career at HDR, your work experience will be diverse. No matter the project, you can achieve a sense of accomplishment and pride, earn the respect of satisfied clients and contribute to improving communities.

So whether you're designing award-winning dam safety modifications in California, alleviating flooding concerns while enhancing the surrounding ecosystem by designing a new reservoir in Omaha, Nebraska, or designing a new channel to allow navigation of tour barges for the San Antonio River Walk, you work will improve the safety of our infrastructure and have a positive impact on people's lives. By living the HDR network and through our workshare program, you can do amazing work almost anywhere.

Together, We Make Great Things Possible

From the moment you join our family, we invest in you as much as you invest in us — encouraging you to take charge of your career while meeting you with expansive opportunities at every step along the way.

Our workplace is collaborative and diverse, built on a history of controlling our own destiny, putting people first and offering careers that provide for a secure future. At HDR, you’re part of a team, surrounded by talent that brings out your best. Discover your possibilities at HDR.

We Celebrate These Numbers

4th

Top 15 in Dams and Reservoirs, ENR

6th

Top 20 in Water Supply, ENR

13K+

Employees Worldwide

107

Years of Pushing Boundaries

More Than 25 Years of Employee Ownership

Our Employee-Owner Culture

Oroville Dam Response

Emergency response decision-making.

Southport Levee in West Sacramento, California

Southport Levee Improvements

Flood control management and ecosystem restoration.

Diablo Dam Safety Inspections

Powerhouse modernization and dam safety inspections.

Scoggins Dam Risk Assessment

Dam feasibility design and risk-informed assessments.

San Francisquito Creek in California state

San Francisquito Creek Flood Protection

Community flood control.

Podcast

Speaking of Design Ep. 22: On the Front Lines of Dam Safety

Article

The Consequence of Doing Nothing

Article

Digital Twin of Diablo Dam Comes to Life

A Snapshot of Life at HDR

Picture this: Your new day-to-day working with your dams and levees engineering team whether in the office or suspended in the air inspecting dams and hydraulic structures. Learn more about what your career would be like at HDR.