Hydraulics Practice Lead - Dams and Levees

About the role

This position offers the flexibility to work a hybrid or fully remote schedule at the discretion of the company. You will serve in a key leadership role and build out our hydraulic engineering capabilities, leveraging existing staff resources and collaborating with other senior dam practitioners across the firm.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and guidance directed at growing a hydraulic engineering practice within Geosyntec’s Dams and Levees high-growth area business line;
• 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;
• Experience with multi-disciplinary project teams;
• Experience with project management and business development;
• Excellent leadership and detail orientation skills;
• Experience performing hydrologic studies for dams and specific experience performing probabilistic flood hazard analyses;
• Experience with modeling tools such as platforms like HEC-RAS (1-D and 2-D), CFD (3-D) models, or similar;
• Serving as H&H Subject Matter Expert on probabilistic risk assessment and risk evaluation teams;
• 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;
• Inspections of existing hydraulic structures and dam safety review of previous analyses and studies against the current state of the practice and design criteria;
• 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 USSD, ASDSO, CEATI, and NHA;
• 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;
• Preparing technical reports, letters, memoranda, plans, specifications, and proposals;
• Drive personal, company, and rental vehicles to client or company project or office sites, and other business locations, as needed.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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)
• Advanced degrees of the same. (preferred)
• Professional registration (i.e., P.E.). (required)

Skills, Experience And Qualifications

• Experience with multi-disciplinary project teams.
• Experience with project management and business development.
• Excellent leadership and detail orientation skills.
• Experience performing hydrologic studies for dams and specific experience performing probabilistic flood hazard analyses.
• 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.
• Exceptional social skills and outstanding oral and written communication skills.
• Ability and willingness to perform fieldwork and travel for site visits, inspections, and other business-related meetings or conferences.
• Field work and overnight travel may be required.
• Current OSHA 40-hr HAZWOPER training and refreshers. (preferred)
• Health & Safety training, medical monitoring, and client-driven drug and background testing may be required.
• Valid U.S. driver’s license and a satisfactory driving record for business travel. (required)

Benefits

• Paid holidays, vacation, sick, and personal paid time off;
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance;
• 401(k);
• and other benefits to eligible employees.