Water Resources Engineer
TinyURL
full-time
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Location: Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United States
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About the role
- Hydrologic and hydraulic (H&H) modeling, analysis, and calculations
- Work on rehabilitation and design of existing and new spillways, outlet works, and other appurtenant dam and levee hydraulic structures
- Scripting workflows / model outputs
- 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-level responsibility for scoping, performing, managing, and delivering multiple concurrent project assignments (depending on level of experience)
- Preparing technical reports, letters, memoranda, plans, specifications, presentations, and proposals
- Drive personal, company, and rental vehicles to client or company project or office sites, and other business locations, as needed
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in water resources or environmental engineering, or a closely related field with emphasis on water resources. (required)
- Advanced degree in a similar field of study. (desirable)
- Professional registration (i.e., E.I.T. or P.E.) (preferred)
- At least 2 years (5+ desirable) of direct engineering consulting experience working on water resource projects, ideally with a focus on hydrologic and hydraulic modeling of rivers, stormwater infrastructure, and/or dams and levees; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. (required)
- Ability to succeed in a fast-paced consulting environment, handling multiple project assignments, meeting strict deadlines, and traveling to client facilities as needed. (required)
- Experience with multi-disciplinary project teams. (required)
- Experience with modeling tools such as platforms like HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS (1-D and 2-D), PCSWMM (1-D and 2-D), or similar. (required)
- A detail-oriented team player who enjoys networking, with exceptional oral and written communication skills. (required)
- Ability and willingness to perform fieldwork and travel for site visits, inspections, and other business-related meetings or conferences. (required)
- Regular field work and overnight travel. (required)
- Health & Safety training, medical monitoring, and client-driven drug and background testing. (required)
- Valid U.S. driver’s license and a satisfactory driving record for business travel. (required)