Civil and Environmental Engineer I Jobs - 2025

Are you interested in designing infrastructure? Water resource planning? Stormwater modeling?

Do you want to enhance your community by creating sustainable solutions to make it more livable and environmentally sound?

Freese and Nichols has some fabulous opportunities for recent grads, May 2025 and August 2025 new grads to launch their careers! Our opportunities provide you with a supportive pathway to grow your career in many areas – design, modeling, planning, technical excellence, and business development.

What Your Day Looks Like –

You will partner with others to complete tasks by collecting and correlating information to assist in completing projects. You will also verify information and adjust data as needed. And coordinate project efforts with others contributing to the project as well.

Your work may involve designing a roadway, highway, water pipeline, water treatment facility, dam, reservoir, or levee. Other opportunities exist for you to guide your client’s stormwater and flood risk reduction programs utilizing modeling and design. You may assist your client in planning for long-term water solutions and support communities in enhancing their existing infrastructure for future needs. For more information on our various practices, please check out our website at https://www.freese.com/.

What We Will Do For You –

We offer you a flexible work environment that includes options such as a hybrid work schedule with remote work up to 2 days per week and an alternative work schedule with every other Friday off. Our support for you in your career journey includes providing you with professional development in technical areas along with soft skills such as collaboration, managing workload, presentation skills, and building partnerships. Our mentoring program allows you to learn from those who have worked in our industry from recent grads to subject matter experts. Rise and Thrive, our Young Professionals ERG (Employee Resource Group) will help you grow your career as well. They facilitate networking and development opportunities and social events, too!

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Majors We Hire

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master's Degree in major from the list above (Current grad or those graduating in May 2025 or August 2025)

Preferred Qualifications

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About Freese And Nichols

At the heart of our culture is our LEADS values (Learn continuously, Engage as family, Act with integrity, Deliver quality, and Serve always). Each year, our employee engagement survey confirms that our leaders and our employees live our values.

We strive to be the firm of choice for clients and employees through innovative approaches, practical results, and outstanding service. For more than 130 years, we have been planning and designing the infrastructure our communities need: developing water supplies, designing roadways and bridges, preparing for natural disasters, and much more.

Besides our comprehensive benefits package (see more at https://www.freese.com/services/benefits-that-work/), we offer paid overtime for salaried employees, an annual bonus, and access to company cabins in Red River, New Mexico. We are proud of our flexible work environment which includes a hybrid schedule with up to 40% of remote work, and an alternative work schedule program which provides a day off every other Friday.

Join our team of 1,300+ employees as we grow from Virginia to Colorado. Learn more about working here at https://www.freese.com/careers/.

Freese and Nichols is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.