What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Water Resources Engineer position at Tetra Tech Careers?
We are seeking a Senior Water Resources Engineer with municipal stormwater engineering and project design expertise. This role will take the lead on a portfolio of unique and exciting projects to solve complex water resource problems and implement award winning projects.
This role will have the unique opportunity to lead large and impactful projects with strategic clients including several large On Call contracts with the City of San Diego, San Diego County, Los Angeles County, and the City of Los Angeles. The projects offer experience into various markets allowing you to define the path to manage the project and team. These projects also offer the opportunity to develop your creative worth as you engineer solutions to the community’s highly visible stormwater issues. The portfolio of projects is in the areas of green infrastructure GI or LID, hydrologic and hydraulic (H&H) analysis, water quantity and quality analysis, asset management, and stormwater/watershed management. This position will be located in our San Diego office.
Responsibilities:
- Project Management – manage teams of engineers and scientists while keeping within the project constraints of scope, schedule and budget constraints on large, complex and impactful projects. This includes supervising, planning, designing, prioritizing and providing PM expertise for projects focused on stormwater quality, GI and LID. Provide exceptional quality assurance and quality control on client deliverables.
- Technical Project Lead – lead stormwater infrastructure design development, ensuring design disciplines work collaboratively, efficiently and effectively and are compliant with regulatory requirements. You will prepare feasibility studies, design plans, specifications, cost estimates, technical documents and contracts.
- Business Development – capitalize on our substantial existing on-call contracts with several major Southern California clients to identify and target opportunities. This includes building internal and external teams that can effectively compete, win and perform work. Participate in strategic marketing discussions and lead proposal development.
- Manage Teams – build and manage project teams and mentoring mid-level and/or junior engineers and scientists
You’ll Bring These Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree (Master’s Preferred) in Civil, Environmental Engineering or related engineering discipline.
- Registered PE in California.
- 7 years of progressive experience conducting feasibility studies (concept through implementation) and analysis of stormwater/water resources projects for municipalities within CA and nationwide.
- Experience as Engineer of Record for the construction of stormwater/water resources projects.
- Ability to lead a multi-disciplined team of engineers and designers in the preparation of construction, drawings, details, specifications, calculations, and engineers estimate of probable construction costs.
- Recent experience w/ the design of sustainable GI, including subsurface storage and infiltration, bioretention basins, bioswales, green streets, and constructed wetlands.
- Working knowledge of water quality regulations and the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program.
- Direct experience working with MS4 jurisdictions in California or the Southwest region preferred.
- Strong project management skills
What We Can Offer You:
- Extremely passionate and motivated team that works hard and plays hard
- Collaborative team atmosphere that values the contributions of all team members
- Excellence and achievement awards for our highest performers
- Flexibility that allows our employees to balance quality work and their personal lives
- Competitive benefits and learning and development opportunities
