Permit Engineer - Civil Engineer 2 | Illinois Department of Natural Resources - Office of Water Resources
Posted on Sep 17, 2025
Position Overview
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is seeking to hire a Permit Engineer for The Office of
Water Resources. This position will review engineering computations in support of projects
involving such elements as flood control, drainage, water supply and demand, low flow augmentation,
irrigation, streambank protection, and recreation analysis, compute such items as channel
discharges, river stages, watershed runoff, estimates of volumes and areas, estimates of cuts and
fills and structural stress on strain analysis, evaluate the summary output while assisting in
assigned projects, and will review and prepare construction plans, specifications and cost
estimates.
Essential Functions
• Under general supervision from the Senior Water Resources Engineer, performs moderately difficult
professional civil engineering duties.
• Participates in engineering training programs which develop engineering expertise and computer
skills.
• Collects data for assigned projects, including river stages, precipitation, high water
information, previous computations, field site information, maps and other drawings.
• Develops working relations with OWR employees, and other Departmental and non-Departmental
contacts.
• Maintains project files to document computations and project evaluations and substantiate
recommendations.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of work of
the duties enumerated above.
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications
- Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering from a college or university program accredited by the
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). - Requires two years of experience in civil or water resource engineering; or one year of engineering experience as a Civil Engineer I and completion of an agency approved training program.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prefers possession of a certification as an Engineer in Training.
- Prefers working experience in water resource, structural, construction or geotechnical engineering.
- Prefers one (1) year of working knowledge of civil or water resource engineering methods, procedures and
techniques. - Prefers one (1) year of experience producing accurate engineering computations and calculations.
Salary and Benefits
Job RequisitionID:49102
Closing Date:09/30/2025
Agency: Department of Natural Resources
Class Title: CIVIL ENGII-07602
Skill Option: None
Bilingual Option: None
Salary: Anticipated Starting Salary$5,246 a month; Full Range $5,246-$8,524 a month
Job Type: Salaried Category: Full Time County: Sangamon Number of Vacancies: 1
Bargaining Unit Code:NR916 Central Management Services, Department of Natural Resources, Teamsters
Merit Comp Code: N/A
This position is a union position; therefore, provisions of the relevant collective bargaining agreement/labor contract apply to the filling of this position.
Location
Illinois Department of Natural Resources
1 Natural Resources Way
Springfield, IL 62702
Springfield, IL 62702
United States
How to apply
All applicants who want to be considered for this position apply electronically through the illinois.jobs2web.com website. State of Illinois employees should click the link near the top left to apply through the Success Factors employee career portal.
Applications submitted via email or any paper manner (mail, fax, hand delivery) will not be considered.
PositionIdentificationNumber:12-64-49102