Mid-Career Water Resources Engineer

Geosyntec Consultants, Inc.; Center Square (PA); Remote; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Geosyntec Consultants, Inc. is seeking a Mid-Career Water Resources Engineer to join a dynamic hydraulic engineering practice.

The role supports dams and levees projects, offering remote work from a home office with occasional travel to Blue Bell and Altoona, PA for site activities and team collaboration. You will lead hydraulic modeling, spillway design, flood hazard analyses, and risk assessments while mentoring junior staff and contributing to business development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in science or engineering (required).
• MS/PhD in related field preferred.
• 5+ years related experience; 7+ preferred.
• Experience with hydrologic studies for dams and probabilistic flood analyses.
• Strong leadership, communication, and project-management skills.
• Experience with modeling tools such as HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS (1-D and 2-D); CFD or 3-D models preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to expand hydraulic engineering within Dams and Levees.
• Design and evaluate spillways, outlet works, and hydraulic structures.
• Conduct flood hazard studies and dam breach modeling.
• Lead multi-disciplinary project teams and manage scopes, budgets, and schedules.
• Support business development, mentoring, and client interactions.
• Prepare technical reports, memos, plans, and proposals.
• Lead generation, business development, staff development, and mentoring.
• Publish and present at industry conferences to broaden visibility.
• Recruit, supervise, and mentor junior staff; prepare technical reports and proposals.

Skills

Hydraulic engineering

Project management

Leadership

Communication

Fieldwork

Hydrologic studies

HEC-HMS/HEC-RAS

Education

Bachelor's degree

MS/PhD preferred

Tools

HEC-HMS

HEC-RAS

HEC-LifeSim

DAMRAE

Job description

Overview

Do you want to build an impactful career to change the world for the better?

Geosyntec has an exciting opportunity for a Mid-Career Water Resources Engineer. You will have the opportunity to work fully remote from your home-office in Altoona, PA and join our growing practice supporting our Blue Bell, PA operations. The position will directly support and lead the expansion of our hydraulic engineering capabilities in the dams and levees market, leveraging existing staff resources, and collaborating with other senior dam and levee practitioners across the firm. Projects span hydraulic modeling of various complexities; hydraulic structure evaluation and design (e.g. spillways); supporting probabilistic risk analysis; hydraulic and hydrologic modeling for large riverine systems; flood modeling; and dam breach consequence assessment studies.

Geosyntec is an innovative, international engineering and consulting firm serving private and public-sector clients to address new ventures and complex problems involving our environment, natural resources, and civil infrastructure. Our engineers, scientists, technical and project employees serve our clients from offices across the world. Ranked by ENR as one of the top environmental engineering design firms, Geosyntec is internationally known for its technical leadership, broad experience, and exceptional client service.

We invest in our people. Each employee is unique, and your career at Geosyntec will be too. We offer competitive pay and benefits and well-being programs to support you and your family.

To Learn More Visit: http://www.geosyntec.com/careers/.

Essential Duties and 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; and
• Preparing technical reports, letters, memoranda, plans, specifications, presentations, and proposals.

Education and Licensure

• Bachelor's degree in science field, preferably biological sciences, engineering or related field. (required)
• Advanced degree (e.g., M.S. or Ph.D.) in epidemiology or related field. (preferred)

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• At least 5 years (7+ preferred) of related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience. (required)
• Experience with multi-disciplinary project teams. (required)
• Experience with project management and business development. (preferred)
• 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)
• Team player who enjoys networking, 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)
• Current OSHA 40-hr HAZWOPER training and refreshers. (preferred)
• Health & Safety training, medical monitoring, and client-driven drug and background testing may berequired.
• Valid U.S. driver’s license and a satisfactory driving record for business travel. (required)