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# Drainage & Water Resources Section Manager at Stanley Consultants

- **Company:** Stanley Consultants
- **Location:** Chicago, IL
- **Compensation:** $122k–$161k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-06-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/stanleygroup/566ca565-d71d-443c-a867-384fd6feaae5

## Job description

Stanley Consultants is an award-winning and industry-leading global consulting engineering firm, with an unmatched commitment to culture, values, and ethics. We are dedicated to client experience and solve the most complex challenges to create a sustainable, connected, and enriched world for all. As the world changes, Stanley strategically evolves with it, integrating the latest technology, innovation, and resiliency practices.

With over a century of experience serving the energy, federal government, transportation, and water sectors, we have helped improve lives and shape the infrastructure systems that connect us. As an employee-owned organization with a People First approach, we stand apart from other engineering consulting and services firms. At Stanley, your voice counts, your growth matters, and your success is our success.

Stanley Consultants offers flexible work options, competitive pay and great benefits, a strong sense of community, and the chance to build a meaningful, long-term career!

Job title - Drainage & Water Resources Section Manager Location - Chicago, IL Job type - Hybrid Requisition ID - 11261

Are you motivated, energetic and connected with clients, contractors and subconsultants in the A/E/C industry? Is your passion for leading transportation projects contagious? Do you enjoy executing winning strategies for pursuits? Is work/life balance important to you? If this describes you, we are looking for a talented and ambitious Transportation Drainage and Water Resources Section Manager in our Chicago, IL office to lead our technical staff and project managers. This position offers an exciting opportunity to lead and grow a transportation design team for an ENR Top 100 Design Firm. The successful candidate will be well versed in transportation design and project management with entities throughout the state of Illinois. The Section Manager role will require mentoring young engineers and engineering interns, leading senior level engineers and designers, and growing and developing a passionate engineering team. Project planning, workload distribution, and effective communication skills are essential. This entrepreneurial individual will provide engineering and project management expertise on highway and drainage projects including roadway studies and design, drainage and utility systems, preparation of construction documents, cost estimates, project scheduling, and overall project management. The successful candidate must be able to work effectively and communicate regularly with internal leadership; municipal clients; and federal, state, and local agencies. This position offers exciting challenges and opportunities for managing all activities related to project scope, schedule, cost, quality, communications, and resource management, leading a team of engineers with varying levels of experience, assisting in transportation and water market business development, and participating in professional organizations and technical committees.

What You Will Be Doing:

- Serve as the drainage and water resources technical lead on projects, providing oversight of design, analyses, and deliverables.
- Serve, as needed, as Project Manager, Project Lead, or Task Lead on transportation and site civil projects.
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of project managers, engineers, and interns to support growth in the Illinois transportation drainage market.
- Manage the preparation of drainage designs and construction documents, including storm sewer systems, detention facilities, flood control, open channels, and erosion control.
- Lead the development of drainage studies and reports, including drainage studies, hydraulic reports, and conceptual drainage evaluations.
- Develop and evaluate drainage alternatives and recommend preferred solutions based on technical, regulatory, and cost considerations.
- Lead regulatory coordination and permitting efforts, including stormwater, floodplain, and agency approvals.
- Manage project delivery, including scope development, fee estimating, budgeting, scheduling, staffing, and subconsultant coordination.
- Support business development through client relationship management, marketing strategy, proposal preparation, and interviews.
- Establish and maintain project quality through QA/QC oversight and adherence to company and agency standards.
- Serve as a primary point of contact for clients and represent the firm in meetings, presentations, and industry engagement.

This position offers exciting challenges and opportunities to grow the Illinois program while managing all activities related to project scope, schedule, cost, quality, communications, and resources; mentoring young staff engineers, assisting in transportation market business development, and participating in professional organizations and technical committees.

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from an accredited program.
- Minimum 10 years of drainage and water resources experience.
- Illinois Professional Engineer (PE) license or ability to obtain within 6 months.
- Experience with Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), Illinois Tollway, and county/local drainage and transportation standards and procedures.
- Demonstrated experience producing roadway drainage design, including plans, profiles, calculations, drainage reports, and estimates.
- Experience preparing drainage studies and reports, including hydraulic analyses and Phase I deliverables.
- Proven experience using drainage design and hydraulics/hydrology modeling software, including Open Roads Designer & StormCAD, PondPack, HY-8, HEC-RAS, XPSWMM, and other industry-standard tools.
- Ability to coordinate with multidisciplinary teams, mentor staff, and support project scoping, proposals, and delivery.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with alternative delivery projects.

Work-Life BalanceWe realize there’s more to life than just work. We help you meet the demands of work, family and personal life through several flexible options.

What we offer: Member-Owned. Member-ownership is at the heart of our culture, aligning client satisfaction, company performance, and personal reward. Paid Time Away. Stanley Consultants offers numerous paid holidays, generous paid time off (PTO), parental leave, and professional development leave. Health Insurance. We provide a comprehensive insurance package including medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, Doctor On Demand, wellness reimbursement, and mental health resources. Financial Health. We offer life insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, identity theft protection, and many other benefits. Professional Growth. When your skills grow, so do we, which is why we offer tuition assistance, professional society membership, and more. Financial Rewards. We share our prosperity with members through company stock ownership, a generous 401K match, incentive compensation, and profit-sharing contributions to retirement 401K plans. Click Here: A Great Place To Work

Learn more about Stanley Consultants in this short video:  Working at Stanley Consultants

Stanley Consultants does not welcome unsolicited resumes from staffing and recruiting agencies. Any unsolicited resumes submitted to Stanley Consultants, including but not limited to resumes submitted directly to Stanley Consultants members, or any of our representatives, will be deemed the property of Stanley Consultants.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

## About Stanley Consultants

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Stanley Consultants is an employee-owned engineering, design, and consulting firm that has been solving essential energy and infrastructure challenges for over 110 years.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Employee-Owned)
- **Headquarters**: Muscatine, Iowa, United States
- **Founded**: 1913
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Civil Engineering, Energy, Transportation, Water/Wastewater, Federal/State/Local Government, Industrial, Education, Healthcare
- **Target customers**: Federal, state and local governments; utilities; private-sector organizations of all sizes (B2B, Enterprise, Government)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Improving lives in the communities where we live and work” with a vision of “creating a connected, sustainable and enriched world.” [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/)

## Products & Services
- **Engineering & Design**: Full life-cycle project services including planning, design, procurement, management, commissioning, and permitting for capital projects. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/)
- **Climate & Resiliency Services**: Through its subsidiary Resilient Analytics, the firm uses climate, engineering, and economic models to deliver actionable insights for infrastructure resilience. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/)
- **Asset Management**: Digital capabilities to optimize built infrastructure, reduce risk, and support smart investment decisions. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/)
- **Energy Solutions**: Safe, affordable, and reliable energy solutions for utilities and industrial clients, including power generation and modernization. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/)
- **Environmental & Construction Services**: Full range of professional environmental, engineering, and construction services. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (privately held, employee-owned)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue – $198M (as of latest available data) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/stanleyconsultants)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Employee-owned; no external venture capital. Acquired Hartwig & Associates (2015), Traffic Engineering Data Solutions (2022), Resilient Analytics (2022). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/stanleyconsultants)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 776 (+6.3% YoY, +73 employees); named a USA Today Top Workplace three years in a row; presence in 15 countries (US, India, UAE, UK, Jamaica); completed over 50,000 engagements in 120 countries. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/stanleyconsultants) [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Employee Ownership**: Members (employees) own the company, aligning client satisfaction, company performance, and personal reward. This structure allows a long-term, partnership-based approach rather than short-term quarterly returns. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers)
- **110+ Year Track Record**: Proven expertise across all 50 US states and 120 countries, with deep relationships in government and utility sectors.
- **Multidisciplinary Full-Lifecycle Services**: Single provider for planning, design, construction, and asset management, reducing client complexity.
- **Climate Resilience Specialization**: Proprietary climate analytics through Resilient Analytics differentiates the firm in an increasingly important niche.

## Strategic Focus
- **Sustainability & Resilience**: Expanding climate science and resiliency services to help clients adapt to environmental changes. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/)
- **Digital Transformation**: Leveraging cutting-edge digital capabilities for asset management and infrastructure optimization.
- **Market Diversification**: Serving federal, state, local, energy, water, transportation, industrial, education, and healthcare markets to reduce dependency on any single sector.
- **Talent Development**: Investing in internship programs (90% conversion to full-time offers) and professional growth to maintain a strong pipeline. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers)

## Why Work Here
- **Employee Ownership Culture**: Members have a direct stake in the company’s success through stock ownership and profit-sharing, fostering a sense of ownership and alignment. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers)
- **Work-Life Balance**: Flexible work options, generous paid time off (PTO), paid holidays, parental leave, and professional development leave. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers)
- **Comprehensive Benefits**: Medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, wellness reimbursement, mental health resources, life insurance, disability insurance, identity theft protection. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers)
- **Financial Rewards**: 401(k) match, incentive compensation, profit-sharing contributions, and an annual opportunity to buy company stock at an independently appraised price. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers)
- **Professional Growth**: Tuition assistance, professional society memberships, mentorship, and multiple career tracks (project management, technical, business development, line management). [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers/professional-development)
- **Internship Program**: Hands-on experience with high conversion to full-time offers; 90% of interns receive job offers. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers)
- **Recognition**: USA Today Top Workplace for three consecutive years, based on employee feedback. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers)

## Sources
1. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/)
2. [stanleyconsultants.com/careers](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers)
3. [stanleyconsultants.com/careers/professional-development](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers/professional-development)
4. [linkedin.com/company/stanleyconsultants](https://www.linkedin.com/company/stanleyconsultants)
5. [jobs.lever.co/stanleygroup](https://jobs.lever.co/stanleygroup)

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