Senior Water Resources Engineer

1 day ago


Denver, Colorado, United States Geosyntec Consultants Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Water Resources Engineer to join our team at Geosyntec Consultants. As a key member of our Water Resources business line, you will provide technical leadership and guidance to expand our hydraulic engineering practice.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide technical expertise and guidance to expand the hydraulic engineering practice within Geosyntec's Water Resources business line.
  • Work on rehabilitation and design of existing and new spillways, outlet works, and other appurtenant dam and levee hydraulic structures.
  • Conduct downstream hazard assessments and dam breach modeling for inundation mapping and support of direct and indirect economic consequence estimation.
  • Inspect existing hydraulic structures and review dam safety against current design criteria.
  • Flood hazard studies, reservoir routing, and stage-discharge frequency analyses in support of semi-quantitative and fully quantitative risk assessments.
  • Interact with client representatives and provide project-level responsibility for scoping, performing, managing, and delivering multiple concurrent project assignments.
  • Contribute to business development, staff development, and mentoring, and help broaden our reputation and visibility through publishing and presenting at industry conferences.
  • Task and project management, including planning, directing staff, budgeting, and budget management, adherence to schedule, quality, client satisfaction, and profitability.
  • Recruit, supervise, and mentor junior staff, and prepare 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.
  • Advanced degrees in the same field are preferred.
  • Professional registration (i.e., P.E.) is required.
  • At least 7 years of direct engineering consulting experience working on water resource projects, ideally with a focus on dams and levees, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Experience with multi-disciplinary project teams, project management, and business development is preferred.
  • Excellent leadership and detail-oriented skills are required.
  • Experience performing hydrologic studies for dams and probabilistic flood hazard analyses is preferred.
  • Experience with modeling tools such as HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, or similar is required, and CFD or other 3-D models are preferred.
  • Team player with exceptional oral and written communication skills is required.
  • Ability and willingness to perform fieldwork and travel for site visits, inspections, and other business-related meetings or conferences is required.
  • Valid U.S. driver's license and a satisfactory driving record for business travel is required.
What We Offer

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including paid holidays, vacation, sick, and personal paid time off, medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, 401(k), and other benefits to eligible employees.



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