Remote Principal Fish Passage & River Restoration Lead

Embedded Shishya; United States; Remote; USD 75,000 - 114,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays

Vacation accrual

Sick leave

401(k) plan with employer match

Job summary

Anchor QEA is seeking a Principal Fish Passage Engineer to lead major fish passage and river restoration projects in California and the Pacific Northwest. The role requires regional expertise, strong leadership, and a track record of coordinating multi-agency efforts.

The position offers part-time arrangement (20 hours/week) with salary potential across a broad range and opportunities for technical leadership, mentoring staff, and developing new business with fisheries and restoration clients.

Qualifications

• S. in Civil Engineering; M.S. coursework or advanced specialization in hydrology, fluvial geomorphology, or related discipline preferred.
• California Professional Engineer registration.
• Approximately 30 years of progressive experience in water resources, fish passage engineering, and river restoration.
• Demonstrated expertise in hydraulic design, fish passage, fish screening, salmon reintroduction, and large dam passage evaluations.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams, managing budgets, and complex interagency coordination.
• Strong technical writing, presentation, and project management skills.
• Established relationships with DWR, CDFW, NOAA Fisheries, USFWS, USBR, USGS, and other resource agencies.
• Ability to identify and develop new business opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Serve as project manager and technical lead for multidisciplinary fish passage, reintroduction, river restoration, and water resources projects.
• Lead planning, alternatives analysis, design, hydraulic evaluation, permitting support, construction oversight, and post-project monitoring for fish passage and reintroduction projects.
• Provide engineering leadership for large dam fish passage and salmon reintroduction studies.
• Prepare technical reports, engineering memoranda, proposals, budgets, and project schedules.
• Mentor engineering and scientific staff.
• Represent Anchor QEA through technical committees, conferences, and publications.
• Develop new client relationships and capture new work with fisheries, fish passage and reintroduction, and/or restoration clients.

Skills

Project management

Technical writing

Presentation

Leadership

Education

California Professional Engineer registration

MS coursework in hydrology/geomorphology or related

Job description

Anchor QEA is seeking a Principal Fish Passage Engineer to lead major fish passage and river restoration projects in California and the Pacific Northwest. The role requires regional expertise, strong leadership, and a track record of coordinating multi-agency efforts.

The position offers part-time arrangement (20 hours/week) with salary potential across a broad range and opportunities for technical leadership, mentoring staff, and developing new business with fisheries and restoration clients.