Hydraulics Practice Lead - Dams and Levees

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Collaboration and mentoring are cornerstones of Geosyntec’s culture.
• Work closely with experienced professionals to integrate into Geosyntec’s culture as you advance.
• Work on challenging technical projects while leveraging existing knowledge and experience.
• Expand Geosyntec’s current practices and capabilities through business development and client management.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance directed at growing a hydraulic engineering practice within Geosyntec’s Dams and Levees high-growth area business line.
• Pull together resources from our existing network of hydraulic and hydrologic engineers to support dam and levee projects across the country, and foster their professional growth while recruiting additional technical team members.
• Lead and serve as a technical advisor on modeling projects involving hydraulic analysis and modeling (1-D and 2-D, and 3-D) utilizing various hydraulic modeling software.
• Rehabilitate and design existing/new spillways, outlet works, and other appurtenant dam hydraulic structures.
• Flood hazard assessment and dam breach modeling for inundation mapping and support of direct and indirect economic consequence estimation.
• Serve as H&H Subject Matter Expert on probabilistic risk assessment and risk evaluation teams.
• Serve as H&H Subject Matter Expert and provide a senior review for Independent Technical Review Boards on dam safety modification studies and design projects.
• Inspect existing hydraulic structures and conduct dam safety reviews of previous analyses and studies against the current state of the practice and design criteria.
• Interact with client representatives.
• Task and project-level responsibility for scoping, performing, managing, and delivering multiple concurrent project assignments.
• Play a role in lead generation, business development, staff development, and mentoring.
• Broaden Geosyntec’s reputation and visibility via publishing and presenting at prominent industry conferences such as USSD, ASDSO, CEATI, and NHA.
• Manage personal, company, and rental vehicles to client or company project or office sites, and other business locations, as needed.

Education and Licensure

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

Skills, Experience And 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.
• 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 (preferred).
• 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).
• 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.
• 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).