What are the responsibilities and job description for the Water Resources Engineer/Project Manager position at Ardurra?
Ardurra is seeking a Water Resources Engineer/Project Manager to join our staff in West Palm Beach, FL.
Our water group consists of seasoned engineers, hydrologists, and environmental scientists dedicated to delivering sustainable solutions for water resources management. We specialize in projects related to stormwater management, water quality, flood control, and environmental preservation. We leverage the latest computer modeling programs combined with traditional engineering and business solutions to find the right solutions for our clients. Our team is committed to addressing complex challenges and providing innovative solutions to protect South Florida’s water resources.
We are seeking an experienced Water Resources Engineer to join our team in South Florida as a Project Manager. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in water resources engineering, with expertise in hydrology, hydraulic modeling, stormwater management, and environmental regulations. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work on impactful projects that improve water systems and support sustainability efforts throughout the region.
Primary Function
The role will provide engineering assistance for hydraulic analysis to assess watershed hydrologic and hydraulic characteristics, including conveyance capacity of structures and canal systems. The position will also manage and work on a variety of water resources projects including but not limited to flood control studies for current and future condition scenarios.
Primary Duties
- Provide expertise to conduct analysis related to joint probabilities or rainfall, sea level rise, and storm surge events; and assess damages
- Coordinate and participate in review and post-processing model outputs that are used to generate performance measures, temporal and spatial summaries, water-depth and damage estimate maps for various rainfall, storm surge and sea level rise scenarios for areas and sub-areas within the model domain and comparison of results with historical data and previous modeling output
- Scheduling, tracking and reporting milestones, tasks and activities
- Attending meetings to discuss project performance
- Actively managing assigned projects
- Actively coordinating with technical staff and outside agencies
- Developing Scopes of Work for modeling studies
- Reviewing outside engineer qualifications and experience, model software selection, and data sources
- Overseeing and participating in the completion and review of contract deliverables
- Providing QA/QC of various phases of modeling
- Preparation of status reports
- Assisting in archiving of final deliverable documents – reports and models and associated tools
Education and Experience Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, Environmental Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, OR Computer Engineering from an accredited university or college
- 8 years minimum of related experience or 6 years related experience with advanced MS degree or 4 year related experience with advanced PhD Degree in water resources and project management
- State of Florida PE license is preferred or ability to obtain within 6 months of hire date
- Project Management Professional (PMP) accreditation preferred
- Experience with flood control model tools such as HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, SWMM, MIKE-SHE, MIKE-Hydro, etc.
- Experience with ArcGIS
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to interface with clients, contractors and regulatory agencies
- Excellent technical writing skills for use in the development of engineering reports and studies
- Able to work efficiently within a predetermined project budget and schedule
Why Ardurra?
While Ardurra offers competitive compensation and rich benefits programs, it is our culture that truly sets us apart from our peers. We nurture a family-like culture, striving to create a work environment that is enjoyable, challenging and rewarding but also fun. We are acutely focused on developing our staff, whether through our internal Ardurra Academy or through our industry-leading Leadership program. We have made a deliberate and focused commitment to nurture a people-centric culture where people are: valued as individuals; supported in their professional and career development with multiple, varied career paths; provided the tools and resources to be successful, engaged, and satisfied in their work; and positive benefits, time-off programs, and flexibility to help maintain a healthy balance between work and home.
Ardurra is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
Ardurra does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Agency Agreement, Ardurra will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. If a resume or candidate is submitted to any hiring manager without a previously signed agreement, Ardurra reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. These candidates will be considered property of Ardurra. We’re not currently looking to add any more agencies to our list of approved vendors, so please do not contact any of our managers or recruitment team with sales calls or details of your candidates.
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