Senior Water Resources Engineer

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The Tetra Tech Denver Office is currently seeking a highly skilled Senior Water Resources Engineer with an emphasis on analysis, design and construction administration support for dams and reservoirs; civil and green infrastructure; stormwater management; drainage and sediment control; hydrologic and hydraulic analysis, stream restoration, open channels, and flood control projects.

To support these efforts, the position requires modeling skills to complete a wide variety of challenging and complex hydrologic, hydraulic, and sediment transport analysis. Additional projects the position will support include floodplain management (levee design, certification and inspection; floodplain mapping; and restoration of floodplain connectivity), dam safety (hydrology studies, probable maximum flood analysis, dam break analysis, inundation mapping and preparation of emergency action plans), watershed management, and determination/mitigation of water resources project impacts. 

Your Role:

• Perform hydrology studies in accordance with federal and state regulations for dam safety.
• Perform hydraulic modeling and hydraulic design of facilities including in-stream and floodplain restoration features such as bio-engineered and LWD projects, levees and levees setbacks, culverts/bridges, grade controls, and fish passage.
• Perform floodplain inundation studies.
• Perform hydrologic analyses to support restoration, floodplain management and other water resources projects.
• Perform sediment transport and scour analyses to support restoration and other water resources projects.
• Prepare project reports and perform oral presentations.
• Work with a multidisciplinary team including geotechnical and structural engineers, geomorphologists, biologists, planners; as well as other hydraulic and water resources engineers.
• Manage projects and task orders to technical and financial success.
• Supervise and delegate work to junior engineers and support staff as necessary to manage specific hydraulic engineering tasks within larger complex projects.
• Contribute to business development, marketing, proposal preparation efforts, and staff mentoring.

Qualifications:

• BS in Civil Engineering plus approximately 10+ years of experience in hydraulics and hydrology. A Master’s Degree with specialization in hydraulics is preferred but not required.
• Professional Engineer license required (CO license preferred, required w/in 6 months of hire).
• Experience with 1-D steady and unsteady modeling such as HEC-RAS, HEC-GeoRAS, and similar.
• Experience with 2-D modeling (RAS-2D, FLO-2D, River Flow2D, ADH, SRH-2D and similar).
• Experience with Sediment Transport modeling (HEC-RAS, HEC-6T, SIAM and similar).
• Experience and knowledge of FEMA and local floodplain management requirements.
• Solid technical writing and communication skills.
• Experience with geomorphology a plus.
• Certified Floodplain Manager a plus.
• Some travel/field work is required.

The salary range is approximately from $110,000 to $140,000 depending on education, experience, skills and location.