Senior Water Resources Engineer
About the role
), Responsibilities (Responsibilities
), Requirements (or Qualifications) (Requirements
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). The instruction: use headings for section headings e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can choose Requirements or Qualifications. Probably combine Required Skills & Experience as Requirements. Provide- for list items. Need to preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. Must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate: EEO, etc. Also remove "Don’t meet every single requirement?" etc? That's part of encouragement but maybe considered boilerplate? It's not exactly boilerplate but it's a statement encouraging applicants; it's substantive? Might be considered part of the posting but not essential. However we need to preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. The encouragement statement is substantive? It's more of a note. Might keep it as a paragraph under Requirements? But it's not a requirement. Could be omitted? The instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The encouragement note is not exactly those categories; it's more like a note to applicants. Might be considered part of the posting but not a requirement. However it's not duplicated. I'd keep it as a paragraph under Requirements maybe. But better to keep it as a separate paragraph after Requirements? The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could embed that note in the Requirements section as a paragraph.
Pay: we have salary range. Provide
Pay
withcontaining the range. We must not include Benefits or Schedule sections because not present. We need to ensure we don't include headings with empty content. Now extract content: About the role: first paragraph(s) up to "Responsibilities". Let's capture: "Dewberry is seeking an experienced and innovative Senior Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineer to join our Resilience Solutions Group. This role focuses on advancing the state of the science in fluvial, pluvial, and lacustrine hydraulics, floodplain analysis, flood risk assessment, and fluvial processes to improve water resources engineering, planning, and design. The successful candidate will combine deep technical expertise in hydraulic modeling, riverine systems, and water resources engineering with a passion for innovation, applied research, and technical leadership. Working collaboratively with engineers, scientists, planners, and programmers, this individual will develop and implement advanced analytical workflows, cloud-enabled modeling solutions, and next-generation approaches for evaluating and managing flood risk under existing and future conditions. In addition to supporting complex projects for federal, state, and local clients, the candidate will help shape the future of hydraulic modeling practice through the advancement of probabilistic and risk-informed methodologies, integration of emerging technologies, development of scalable computational workflows, and mentorship of technical staff. The ideal candidate will serve as a recognized subject matter expert and change agent, delivering impactful, data-driven resilience solutions while advancing organizational capabilities in hydraulic modeling, flood risk analysis, and water resources planning and design. Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors is our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a new graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call “Dewberry at Work,” that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century." That's the About the role. Responsibilities: list after "Responsibilities". The bullet points start with "Leverage expertise..." etc. We need to capture each line as list item. Let's list them: - Leverage expertise in hydraulic engineering and river modeling to lead or support technical needs of diverse projects across municipal, state, and federal markets. - Lead or contribute to the development of innovative hydraulic and flood risk analysis approaches to meet project requirements. - Conduct and oversee one-dimensional and two-dimensional hydraulic modeling of riverine systems, floodplains, bridges, culverts, and hydraulic structures. - Evaluate river hydraulics, sediment transport, channel stability, and floodplain dynamics under existing and future conditions. - Productively collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of engineers, hydrologists, planners, scientists, and software developers for integrated project delivery. - Participate in client and public engagement meetings. - Develop technical reports and provide formal and informal presentations to clients and stakeholders. - Demonstrate subject matter leadership and professional development through external publications, conference presentations, and professional organizations. - Serve as a technical mentor and subject matter expert, providing coaching, training, and quality assurance for junior engineers while promoting best practices in river hydraulics, flood risk assessment, and numerical modeling. - Lead research, development, testing, and validation of next-generation hydraulic analysis methodologies to address evolving client and industry needs. - Develop and implement a strategic roadmap for advancing hydraulic modeling capabilities, including the integration of probabilistic and risk-informed approaches, technical standards, quality management procedures, and operational best practices. - Serve as a technical leader and change agent by mentoring staff and promoting adoption of emerging methods for uncertainty analysis, probabilistic flood hazard characterization, and risk-based decision support. - Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies, computational methods, and analytical frameworks to enhance hydraulic modeling practice. - Design computational workflows that leverage cloud computing, automation, parallel processing, and large-scale model execution. - Partner with scientific programmers, data scientists, and engineers to operationalize advanced hydraulic modeling solutions. That's all. Requirements: after "Required Skills & Required Experience". There's a duplicated heading "Required Skills & Experience". We'll capture the content. Paragraphs: "Candidates must demonstrate knowledge and expertise in performing complex hydraulic analyses using advanced numerical modeling software. Preferred candidates will have experience evaluating riverine systems in the context of extreme events and changing environmental conditions, including an understanding of the interactions among hydrology, hydraulics, geomorphology, and infrastructure. BS, MS, or PhD in Civil Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering, or related discipline. Expertise in hydraulic engineering and river modeling with 10+ years of relevant industry experience. Demonstrated experience developing, calibrating, and applying large-scale watershed and riverine hydraulic models spanning multiple watersheds, river networks, and interconnected floodplain systems. Proficiency with industry-standard hydraulic modeling software and analytical tools, such as HEC-RAS and SWMM. Experience with floodplain mapping, FEMA studies, and regulatory flood risk assessments. Experience with GIS platforms, including ArcGIS Pro and spatial analysis workflows. Excellent technical writing, communication, and client engagement skills. Professional Engineer (PE) license." Then "Preferred Qualifications" list: - Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Hydraulic Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, or related field. - Experience performing dam-break and levee breach analyses. - Experience integrating hydraulic models with hydrologic and meteorological datasets. - Experience implementing computationally intensive, cloud-based workflows for flood forecasting, inundation mapping, and risk analysis. - Experience supporting federal agencies such as FEMA, USACE, NOAA, USGS, or state water resource agencies. Then the encouragement note: "Don’t meet every single requirement? At Dewberry we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace for our employee’s. So if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities." We could include that as a paragraph under Requirements (maybe after the lists). It's substantive but not a requirement; still we can keep. Pay: "The projected range for this position is $134,000 - $173,000 annually. Depending upon other factors, i.e., skills, experience, location, market conditions, the range may vary slightly." Also later repeated: "Salary Range The projected range for this position is $134,000-$173,000 annually in our Fairfax, VA office. Depending upon other factors, i.e., skills, experience, location, market conditions, the range may vary slightly." We need to preserve all substantive info; we can combine: mention range and note about variation and location (Fairfax, VA). So include both. Now produce HTML:
About the role
... (the paragraph)
Responsibilities
- ... each
Requirements
... (the paragraph about candidates must demonstrate... etc.)
Preferred Qualifications for preferred qualifications. But we need to use
- for any list. So we can have a
- for preferred qualifications. However we already have a paragraph for required skills; then we can add a
- for preferred qualifications. That's fine.
We must not create extra headings like "Preferred Qualifications" unless we want to use
but we already used Requirements heading; we could add a
but not allowed? The instruction only mentions using
for section headings; but we can still use other headings? It says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but to be safe we can avoid extra headings and just incorporate preferred qualifications as a list under Requirements with a preceding sentence like "Preferred qualifications include:" then
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Then after that, include the encouragement note as a
. Then
Pay
withcontaining salary range and note. We must not include Benefits or Schedule. Now ensure we don't repeat any boilerplate like EEO etc. We removed those. Check for duplicated lines: we have salary range mentioned twice; we will combine. Now produce final HTML. Let's craft the About the role paragraph exactly as given, preserving punctuation. I'll copy the paragraph: "Dewberry is seeking an experienced and innovative Senior Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineer to join our Resilience Solutions Group. This role focuses on advancing the state of the science in fluvial, pluvial, and lacustrine hydraulics, floodplain analysis, flood risk assessment, and fluvial processes to improve water resources engineering, planning, and design. The successful candidate will combine deep technical expertise in hydraulic modeling, riverine systems, and water resources engineering with a passion for innovation, applied research, and technical leadership. Working collaboratively with engineers, scientists, planners, and programmers, this individual will develop and implement advanced analytical workflows, cloud-enabled modeling solutions, and next-generation approaches for evaluating and managing flood risk under existing and future conditions. In addition to supporting complex projects for federal, state, and local clients, the candidate will help shape the future of hydraulic modeling practice through the advancement of probabilistic and risk-informed methodologies, integration of emerging technologies, development of scalable computational workflows, and mentorship of technical staff. The ideal candidate will serve as a recognized subject matter expert and change agent, delivering impactful, data-driven resilience solutions while advancing organizational capabilities in hydraulic modeling, flood risk analysis, and water resources planning and design. Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and