Onsite Project Water Resources Engineer

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About the role

  • Mid/Senior Level Water Resources Engineer supporting hydraulic engineering capabilities in dam projects. Collaborating with senior practitioners and managing multiple concurrent project assignments in the role.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership and guidance to expand the hydraulic engineering practice within Geosyntec’s Dams and Levees business line.
  • Work on rehabilitation and design of existing and new spillways, outlet works, and other appurtenant dam and levee hydraulic structures.
  • Downstream hazard assessment and dam breach modeling for inundation mapping and support of direct and indirect economic consequence estimation.
  • Inspections of existing hydraulic structures and dam safety review of previous analyses and studies against the current state of the practice and design criteria.
  • Flood hazard studies, reservoir routing and stage-discharge frequency analyses in support of semi-quantitative and fully quantitative risk assessments; Interacting with client representatives; Task and project-level responsibility for scoping, performing, managing, and delivering multiple concurrent project assignments;
  • Consistent with our sell-manage-do business model, play a role in lead generation, business development, staff development, and mentoring;
  • Help broaden our reputation and visibility via publishing and presenting at prominent industry conferences such as US Society on Dams, Association of State Dam Safety.
  • Task and project management, including planning and directing staff, budgeting and budget management, adherence to schedule, quality, client satisfaction, and profitability;
  • Recruiting, supervising, and mentoring junior staff;
  • Preparing technical reports, letters, memoranda, plans, specifications, presentations, and proposals.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in water resources or environmental engineering or a closely related field with emphasis on water resources or a closely related discipline. (required)
  • At least 7 years (8+ preferred) of direct engineering consulting experience working on water resource projects with a focus on dams and levees; or an equivalent combination of education and experience working on the types of projects described above. (required)
  • Experience with multi-disciplinary project teams. (required)
  • Excellent leadership and detail oriented. (required)
  • Experience performing hydrologic studies for dams and specific experience performing probabilistic flood hazard analyses. (preferred)
  • Experience with modeling tools such as platforms like HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS (1-D and 2-D), or similar (required). CFD or other 3-D models (preferred). HEC-LifeSim, HEC-FIA, DAMRAE or similar. (preferred)
  • Ability and willingness to perform fieldwork and travel for site visits, inspections, and other business-related meetings or conferences. (required)
  • Current OSHA 40-hr HAZWOPER training and refreshers. (preferred)
  • Valid U.S. driver’s license and a satisfactory driving record for business travel. (required)

Benefits

  • paid holidays
  • vacation
  • sick and personal paid time off
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • life and disability insurance
  • 401(k) and other benefits to eligible employees

Job title

Project Water Resources Engineer

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

$107,160 - $172,530 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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