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Water Resources Specialist

2 months ago

Austin, Texas, United States CAPPS, Inc. Full time
Job Description

As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for conducting and overseeing the execution of technical projects within our Flood Modeling Department. Your expertise in hydrologic and hydraulic modeling will be essential in supporting regional and state flood planning, flood grant administration, and outreach efforts.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide technical support to our statewide floodplain modeling program, informing stakeholders of flood risk.
  • Support regional and state flood planning, flood grant administration, and outreach efforts, including developing technical standards and procedures.
  • Manage project activities within the department, coordinating external activities and training, leading, and assigning the work of the team.
  • Develop and apply floodplain models according to agency-approved technical standards and procedures.
  • Support efforts of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program.
  • Coordinate with federal, state, and local entities to collect NFIP and RiskMAP engineering data in support of floodplain mapping needs.
  • Develop, review, and implement policies and procedures to improve program operations.
  • Write, review, and evaluate scopes of work, memos, reports, work process, and policy documents.
  • Serve as a liaison for the TWDB at meetings with federal, state, and local entities or the public throughout Texas to support floodplain modeling and mapping.
  • Provide presentations to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Manage contracts related to floodplain modeling and mapping and assist in training and overseeing staff contract managers.
  • Ensure the provision of quality customer service from the department to both internal and external stakeholders.
Requirements
  • Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physical/Natural/Environmental science or related field.
  • One year of relevant work experience in engineering or a related field for Engineer Specialist II, three years for Engineer Specialist III, and four years for Engineer Specialist IV.
  • Relevant education and experience can be substituted for each other on a year-for-year basis.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Graduate degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in Engineering, Physical/Natural/Environmental sciences or related field.
  • Experience in Hydrologic/Hydraulic/Hydrodynamic Modeling, Surface Water Resources.
  • One or more years of relevant work experience conducting or leading studies of surface water resources, floodplain management or modeling, or a related field.
  • One or more years of experience developing, applying, or running hydrologic/hydraulic models using HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, or similar models.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)
  • Knowledge of local, state, and federal laws and regulations relevant to Flood Modeling Department.
  • Knowledge of the principles and practices of public administration.
  • Knowledge of floodplain management practices.
  • Knowledge of relevant hydrologic/hydraulic/hydrodynamic techniques and models, including standard models and methods used to develop FEMA Base Level Engineering.
  • Knowledge of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), FEMA flood hazard mapping, Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), Flood Hazard Boundary Maps, CLOMR/LOMR submittals, and floodplain management.
  • Skills in using Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel, and Access.
  • Skills in use of internet, email, word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database software.
  • Skills in developing, applying, or running hydrologic/hydraulic models (e.g., HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, SWMM, InfoWorks, AdH, GSSHA, etc.) or other computational/numerical models.
  • Skill with GIS applications; skill using ESRI ArcGIS 10 (or later) software product suite with knowledge of Spatial and 3D Analyst extensions and exposure to geodatabase use and design.
  • Skills in reading and interpreting engineering documents, surveys, topographic information, and aerial photography.
  • Skills in manipulation of data sets for hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, including topographic (e.g. LiDAR, DEM), soils, landcover, and other data sets.
  • Skill in working with very large data sets.
  • Skills in scientific data management, analysis, and interpretation, particularly of hydrologic data.
  • Skills in using numerical/visualization tools, e.g., Matlab, Surfer, Octave, Scipy/Numpy, Matplotlib, Tecplot, Gnuplot, HEC-DSS, etc.
  • Skills in using programming language such as Fortran, C, etc. and/or scripting languages such as Perl, Python, bash, etc.
  • Skills in writing technical memos, reports, work process, and policy documents.
  • Skills in project management and grant/contract administration, including developing scopes-of-work.
  • Skills in communicating with elected, local, state, and federal officials, stakeholders, and the media.