Ready to supercharge your career while doing engaging engineering work that has an impact on the communities we live and work in? Our projects are based in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, where we provide technical expertise and engineering design for stream restoration and fisheries projects. We are currently seeking to add a Fisheries Engineer/ Project Engineerto our Water Resource team. The typical salary range for this position is $103,000 to $135,000 and is commensurate with experience relative to this position. This is a full-time with benefits position.

As a Fisheries Engineer/Project Engineer, you’ll work with a multidisciplinary team to develop your skills and take on responsibilities that will help you level up your career. Project work for the WR group includes correcting barriers to fish passage, stream restoration, and flood mitigation. You will work closely with a team of scientists and engineers to solve complex problems that require interdisciplinary coordination.

What you’ll be doing:

• Applying engineering design and hydraulic modeling techniques to fish passage and stream restoration projects.

• Complete design calculations, prepare reports conveying design rationale and justification and produce design plans and specifications.

• Conduct site visits, evaluate stream conditions, document conditions, and collect field data.

• Review reports, maps, topographic data, and aerial photographs to ascertain soil and landcover composition and other watershed hydrologic characteristics to develop rainfall-runoff estimates using computer modeling.

• Use 2-dimensional hydraulic models to simulate the hydraulics of water flow through natural rivers and channels (HEC-RAS, SRH2D).

• Assess open-channel and floodplain erosion and scour processes and develop mitigation strategies such as scour countermeasures considering environment and natural design.

• Perform design calculations and clearly document supporting information, analysis and design decisions in presentations for review with clients.

• Produce design plans using CAD software (Bentley MicroStation and Autodesk Civil3D).

• Design stream complexity features such as engineered log jams and other Large Woody Material (LWM) features including the evaluation of stability of LWM structures.

• Prepare floodplain impact assessment reports describing project effects on floodplain conveyance, mapped floodways and FEMA and local floodplain guidelines and regulations.

• Coordinate with multiple engineering disciplines, wetland and watershed sciences, designers, and CAD technicians to synthesize information into clear design documents.

Who we are looking for:

Required qualifications:

• EIT certification with a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or related field and 5 years of experience in hydrology, hydraulics, fish passage, and/or stream restoration.

• Experience in water resources planning and design.

• A self-motivated, methodical, and organized problem solver that wants to learn and grow with an interdisciplinary team.

• A person who takes initiative and shows attention to quality and detail.

• Experience working with CAD software such as AutoCAD or MicroStation

• Experience working with GIS software and spatial data.

• Experience performing design calculations working with hydrologic and hydraulic modeling software.

• Strong analytical thinking and communication skills.

• Strong technical writing skills and the ability to independently synthesize multiple data points into a single logical justification.

• A mentor that is authentic, empathetic, creative, and sees the key to their professional growth in their investment in others.