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Water Resources Engineer

Geosyntec Consultants • Pittsburgh, PA • 2h ago

Water Resources Engineer Primary Location

US-PA-Blue Bell ID

2025-3606 Category Early Career

Position Type Regular Full-Time

Remote No

Additional Location US-PA-Pittsburgh

Additional Location US-PA-Philadelphia

Overview

Do you want to build an impactful career to change the world for the better? Geosyntec has an exciting opportunity for a Water Resources Engineer to be based in our Blue Bell, PA, Philadelphia, PA, or Pittsburgh, PA office. You will be working on complex projects involving hydrologic/hydraulic analyses, including dam and levee studies, floodplain mapping, stream restoration, innovative urban stormwater management and natural surface water systems, including sustainable green infrastructure planning studies, urban stormwater infrastructure design, flood mitigation analyses and practices, and surface water, watershed, and stormwater runoff monitoring/modeling. Projects include hydrologic and hydraulic modeling of various complexities; hydraulic structure evaluation and design (e.g. spillways); supporting probabilistic risk analysis; hydrologic and hydraulic modeling for large riverine systems; flood modeling; and dam breach consequence assessment studies.

Geosyntec is an innovative, international engineering and consulting firm serving private and public-sector clients to address new ventures and complex problems involving our environment, natural resources, and civil infrastructure. Our engineers, scientists, technical and project employees serve our clients from offices across the world. Ranked by ENR as one of the top environmental engineering design firms, Geosyntec is internationally known for its technical leadership, broad experience, and exceptional client service.

We invest in our people. Each employee is unique, and your career at Geosyntec will be too. We offer competitive pay and benefits and well-being programs to support you and your family.

To Learn More Visit: http://www.geosyntec.com/careers/.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Hydrologic and hydraulic (H&H) modeling, analysis, and calculations; Work on rehabilitation and design of existing and new spillways, outlet works, and other appurtenant dam and levee hydraulic structures; Scripting workflows / model outputs; Downstream hazard assessment and dam breach modeling for inundation mapping and support of direct and indirect economic consequence estimation; Inspections of existing hydraulic structures and dam safety review of previous analyses and studies against the current state of the practice and design criteria; Flood hazard studies, reservoir routing and stage-discharge frequency analyses in support of semi-quantitative and fully quantitative risk assessments; Interacting with client representatives; Depending on your level of experience: Task-level responsibility for scoping, performing, managing, and delivering multiple concurrent project assignments; and Preparing technical reports, letters, memoranda, plans, specifications, presentations, and proposals. Drive 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. (required) Advanced degree in a similar field of study. (desirable) Professional registration (i.e., E.I.T. or P.E.) (preferred)

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

At least 2 years (5+ desirable) of direct engineering consulting experience working on water resource projects, ideally with a focus on hydrologic and hydraulic modeling of rivers, stormwater infrastructure, and/or dams and levees; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. (required) Ability to succeed in a fast-paced consulting environment, handling multiple project assignments, meeting strict deadlines, and traveling to client facilities as needed. (required) Experience with multi-disciplinary project teams. (required) Experience with modeling tools such as platforms like HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS (1-D and 2-D), PCSWMM (1-D and 2-D), or similar. (required) A detail-oriented team player who enjoys networking, with exceptional oral and written communication skills. (required) Ability and willingness to perform fieldwork and travel for site visits, inspections, and other business-related meetings or conferences. (required) Valid U.S. driver's license and a satisfactory driving record for business travel. (required)

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