Hydraulics Practice Lead - Dams and Levees

Description

• Consistent with our sell-manage-do business model, play a role in lead generation, business development, staff development, and mentoring;
• Drive personal, company, and rental vehicles to client or company project or office sites, and other business locations, as needed.
• Task and project management, including planning and directing staff, budgeting and budget management, adherence to schedule, quality, client satisfaction, and profitability;
• Interacting with client representatives;
• Task and project-level responsibility for scoping, performing, managing, and delivering multiple concurrent project assignments;
• Preparing technical reports, letters, memoranda, plans, specifications, and proposals.
• Inspections of existing hydraulic structures and dam safety review of previous analyses and studies against the current state of the practice and design criteria.
• Serving as H&H Subject Matter Expert on probabilistic risk assessment and risk evaluation teams;
• Recruiting, supervising, and mentoring junior staff; and
• Rehabilitation and design of existing/new spillways, outlet works, and other appurtenant dam hydraulic structures;
• Provide technical leadership and guidance directed at growing a hydraulic engineering practice within Geosyntec’s Dams and Levees high-growth area business line;
• Field work and overnight travel may be required.
• Help broaden our reputation and visibility via publishing and presenting at prominent industry conferences such as USSD, ASDSO, CEATI, and NHA;
• Serving as H&H Subject Matter Expert and providing a senior review for Independent Technical Review Boards on dam safety modification studies and design projects;
• Pulling together resources from our existing network of hydraulic and hydrologic engineers to support dam and levee projects across the country, and fostering their professional growth while also recruiting additional technical team members;

Requirements

• Excellent leadership and detail orientation skills. (required)
• Current OSHA 40-hr HAZWOPER training and refreshers. (preferred)
• Advanced degrees of the same. (preferred)
• At least 10 years (15+ 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 performing hydrologic studies for dams and specific experience performing probabilistic flood hazard analyses. (preferred)
• Professional registration (i.e., P.E.). (required)
• Ability and willingness to perform fieldwork and travel for site visits, inspections, and other business-related meetings or conferences. (required)
• Past experience with hydraulic analysis and modeling (1-D and 2-D, and 3-D) utilizing various hydraulic modeling software. Ability to scope, lead, and serve as a technical advisor on modeling projects;
• Valid U.S. driver’s license and a satisfactory driving record for business travel. (required)
• Experience with project management and business development (required)
• Experience with multi-disciplinary project teams. (required)
• Experience with modeling tools such as platforms like HEC-RAS (1-D and 2-D), CFD (3-D) models, or similar. HEC-LifeSim, HEC-FIA, DAMRAE or similar. (preferred)
• Health & Safety training, medical monitoring, and client-driven drug and background testing may be required.
• Exceptional social skills and outstanding oral and written communication skills. (required)
• 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)
• Flood hazard assessment and dam breach modeling for inundation mapping and support of direct and indirect economic consequence estimation. Familiarity with HEC-FIA and HEC-LifeSim software is a plus;

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance