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# Designer III at Resource Environmental Solutions LLC

- **Company:** Resource Environmental Solutions LLC
- **Location:** Sacramento, CA / San Francisco, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-09-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/res/jobs/5418989008

## Job description

At RES, we’re looking for purpose-driven individuals who are passionate about restoration and sustainability, and who want their work to make a lasting environmental impact. Our team members go above and beyond, bringing initiative, integrity, and a strong work ethic to every project. Collaboration is key—we thrive on teamwork, open communication, and diverse perspectives. In a field that constantly changes, we value those who are resilient, adaptable, and resourceful in the face of challenges. If you're intellectually curious, eager to learn, and ready to help restore ecosystems and protect natural resources, you’ll find your place here.

RES is looking for a Designer III to lead restoration design production and field activities for stream and wetland projects. This role is designed for an experienced restoration professional who can independently lead design assignments, apply hydraulic modeling and hydrologic analysis, coordinate field teams, and take responsibility for the quality of technical deliverables.

As a Designer III, you will move beyond producing individual components of a design and take ownership of complete design deliverables, including plan production, cost estimates, specifications, construction coordination, and QA/QC.

## Why you would love this job

You will have the opportunity to take meaningful technical ownership of restoration projects while remaining closely connected to both field conditions and construction.

This role is a strong fit for someone who enjoys solving complex design problems, leading technical work, applying hydraulic modeling, improving the quality of deliverables, and helping less-experienced team members become stronger designers. You will have significant responsibility while continuing to deepen your technical expertise.

What your day to day will look like

You will lead design production for restoration projects, coordinating field data collection and translating that information into complete technical deliverables. Your work may include leading geomorphic and ecological field assessments, evaluating hydrologic data, calculating design discharges, applying hydraulic modeling, developing and reviewing plan sets, preparing cost estimates and specifications, and coordinating construction inspections. You will also perform QA/QC of design deliverables, identify technical or constructability concerns, resolve design-related issues, and provide guidance to junior designers and field teams throughout the project lifecycle.

We would love to talk to you if you have many of the following

- Bachelor’s degree.
- Degree in Natural Science or a related discipline, or comparable technical education and relevant experience.
- 5+ years of experience leading plan production, field data collection, and restoration design tasks.
- Significant experience with stream and/or wetland restoration design.
- Experience leading geomorphic and ecological field assessments.
- Strong understanding of hydrology and design discharge calculations.
- Experience applying hydraulic modeling to restoration projects.
- Proficiency producing and coordinating complete design plan sets.
- Experience preparing and reviewing cost estimates and technical specifications.
- Experience supporting restoration projects during construction.
- Experience performing QA/QC of technical or design deliverables.
- Ability to independently identify and resolve technical design issues.

What will make you stand out

- Master’s degree in Natural Science or a related technical discipline.
- Advanced stream restoration or wetland restoration design experience.
- Strong hydraulic modeling capability.
- Experience leading a restoration design from initial field assessment through final design and construction.
- Experience identifying and resolving constructability issues.
- Demonstrated responsibility for QA/QC of other designers’ work.
- Experience coaching or providing technical direction to junior staff.

You will thrive here if

- You take ownership of outcomes, not just assigned tasks.
- You have strong technical judgment and enjoy solving complex problems.
- You can balance design quality, field realities, constructability, and project needs.
- You communicate technical concepts clearly to people with different backgrounds.
- You naturally look for potential problems before they become larger issues.
- You enjoy helping less-experienced professionals develop.
- You hold yourself and others accountable for high-quality technical work.
- You can manage competing priorities without losing attention to detail.

Please note that the “Day in the Life” section is not intended to be an exhaustive list of job duties, but rather a representative snapshot of typical responsibilities and work experiences at RES.

RES is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a VEVRAA Federal Contractor. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

## About Resource Environmental Solutions LLC

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The largest dedicated nature-based solutions provider in the U.S., focused on restoring lands and waters to solve environmental challenges like water quality, flood resiliency, and biodiversity loss.
- **Entity Type**: Private
- **Headquarters**: Houston, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Environmental Services / Ecological Restoration / Nature-Based Solutions
- **Target Customers**: Government agencies, developers, infrastructure firms, energy companies, and any organization needing environmental mitigation, water resource solutions, or conservation offset credits.
- **Mission**: “Restore our land and waters with ecological integrity and innovation, project by project.”
- **Vision**: “Restoring a resilient Earth for a modern world.”

## Products & Services
- **Wetland Mitigation**: Designing, constructing, and permanently preserving wetland systems to compensate for unavoidable impacts from development.
- **Stream & Floodplain Restoration**: Rehabilitating impaired streams and floodplains to improve hydrology, water quality, and habitat.
- **Species Habitat Conservation**: Protecting and restoring habitats for special-status animal species (28 species protected to date) and prairie/upland ecosystems.
- **Coastal Restoration**: Restoring shorelines, terraces, and tidal systems to enhance coastal stability and resilience.
- **Water Quality Solutions**: Implementing projects that remove water quality nutrients (over 20,700 pounds removed all-time).
- **Conservation Banking**: Establishing permanently preserved mitigation banks (on over 1,097,132 acres of land conserved and protected) that generate saleable credits for developers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Funding**: Not disclosed (private company). No public funding rounds reported.
- **Key Metrics**:
    - **Total acres under land conserved & protected**: 1,097,132 acres
    - **Wetlands restored**: 88,429 acres
    - **Streams restored**: 690 miles
    - **Shoreline & terrace restored**: 431 miles
    - **Trees planted**: 28,140,473
    - **Special-status animal species protected**: 28 species
    - **Water quality nutrients removed**: 20,700+ pounds
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Growth Signals**: Operates in every major eco-region across the U.S.; maintains a large portfolio of mitigation banks and restoration projects; strong hiring pipeline (36+ current open positions at the time of data retrieval).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale & Experience**: The nation’s largest dedicated nature-based solutions provider, with an unmatched portfolio of large-scale, permanently conserved projects.
- **Full In-House Team**: Projects are designed, built, and monitored by an integrated team spanning engineering, construction, ecological science, and regulatory expertise — ensuring performance guarantees.
- **Long-Term Stewardship**: Projects are designed to be self-sustaining and are permanently preserved, providing long-term ecological uplift and reducing liability for clients.
- **Deep Local Presence**: Teams live and work in every major U.S. eco-region, offering deep local biodiversity and water resource expertise.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling Nature-Based Solutions**: Expanding the use of natural systems (wetlands, floodplains, coastal zones) to solve urgent community and infrastructure challenges.
- **Integrated Project Delivery**: Strengthening the "study, design, build, monitor" model to guarantee ecological outcomes.
- **Water & Climate Resilience**: Prioritizing projects that deliver measurable improvements to flood resiliency, water quality, and coastal stability — directly addressing climate change impacts.
- **Talent & Team Growth**: Actively recruiting across engineering, science, project management, and field operations to support a growing project pipeline.

## Why Work Here
- **Purpose-Driven Mission**: Every role contributes directly to measurable environmental restoration — restoring land, water, and ecosystems for future generations.
- **Culture**: Emphasizes passion, intellectual curiosity, collaboration, integrity, and adaptability. Described as a home for lifelong learners who want to solve complex ecological problems.
- **Team Structure**: Cross-functional teams including field crews, engineers, scientists, and administrative staff working together on large-scale restoration projects.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Some positions (e.g., Water Resources Engineer III) are explicitly listed as remote. Others are office-based or field-based across multiple U.S. locations.
- **Perks & Benefits**:
    - Competitive salaries and benefits
    - 401(k) with employer match
    - Vacation, sick time, parental leave, and floating holidays for volunteer time
    - Tuition reimbursement for career advancement and skill development
- **Learning & Growth**: Offers internships across disciplines (engineering, ecology, construction); provides hands-on field experience in ecological restoration.

## Sources
1. [RES Official Website - About Us](https://res.us/home/about-us/)
2. [RES Careers - Open Positions (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/res)
3. [RES Careers - Working Here & Benefits](https://res.us/careers/working-here/)

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