Geosyntec Consultants
Hydraulics Practice Lead - Dams and Levees
Geosyntec Consultants, Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 85003
Hydraulics Practice Lead – Dams and Levees
This is an exciting opportunity for a Hydraulics Practice Lead to build a hydraulic engineering capabilities group focused on dams and levees for Geosyntec across multiple U.S. locations: Louisville, KY; Phoenix, AZ; Dallas, TX; Houston, TX; Pittsburgh, PA; Indianapolis, IN; and other offices. The role offers flexibility for a hybrid or fully remote schedule at the company’s discretion.
You will serve in a key leadership role, building out our hydraulic engineering capabilities, leveraging existing staff resources and collaborating with senior dam practitioners across the firm. Projects span hydraulic modeling of various complexities, spillway and other hydraulic structure evaluation and design, supporting probabilistic risk analysis, hydraulic and hydrologic 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. Ranked by ENR as one of the top environmental engineering design firms, Geosyntec is internationally known for its technical leadership 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 Collaboration and mentoring are cornerstones of Geosyntec’s culture. You should expect to work closely with experienced professionals who will help integrate you into Geosyntec’s culture as you advance to this next stage of your career of leading and growing a practice. We operate under a sell‑manage‑do culture, and so we expect that you’ll work on challenging technical projects while leveraging your existing knowledge and experience to help Geosyntec expand its current practices and capabilities through business development and client management.
Key Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership and guidance directed at growing a hydraulic engineering practice within Geosyntec’s Dams and Levees high‑growth area business line.
Pull together resources from our existing network of hydraulic and hydrologic engineers to support dam and levee projects across the country, and foster professional growth while recruiting additional technical team members.
Lead and serve as technical advisor on hydraulic analysis and modeling (1‑D, 2‑D, 3‑D) utilizing various hydraulic modeling software.
Rehabilitate and design existing/new spillways, outlet works, and other appurtenant dam hydraulic structures.
Conduct flood hazard assessment and dam breach modeling for inundation mapping and support of direct and indirect economic consequence estimation; familiarity with HEC‑FIA and HEC‑LifeSim is a plus.
Serve as H&H subject‑matter expert on probabilistic risk assessment and risk evaluation teams.
Serve as H&H subject‑matter expert, providing senior review for independent technical review boards on dam safety modification studies and design projects.
Inspect existing hydraulic structures and conduct dam safety review of previous analyses and studies against the current state of the practice and design criteria.
Interact with client representatives.
Maintain task and project‑level responsibility for scoping, performing, managing, and delivering multiple concurrent project assignments.
Play a role in lead generation, business development, staff development, and mentoring.
Help broaden our reputation and visibility via publishing and presenting at prominent industry conferences such as USSD, ASDSO, CEATI, and NHA.
Manage planning and directing staff, budgeting and budget management, schedule adherence, quality, client satisfaction, and profitability.
Recruit, supervise, and mentor junior staff.
Prepare technical reports, letters, memoranda, plans, specifications, and proposals.
Drive transportation to client or company project or office sites, and other business locations as needed.
Education and Licensure
Bachelor’s degree in water resources, environmental engineering, or a closely related field with emphasis on water resources or a closely related discipline (required).
Advanced degrees of the same (preferred).
Professional registration (i.e., P.E.) (required).
Skills, Experience and Qualifications
At least 10 years (15+ preferred) of direct engineering consulting experience working on water resource projects with a focus on dams and levees; or an equivalent combination of education and experience (required).
Experience with multi‑disciplinary project teams (required).
Experience with project management and business development (required).
Excellent leadership and detail orientation skills (required).
Experience performing hydrologic studies for dams and specific experience performing probabilistic flood hazard analyses (preferred).
Experience with modeling tools such as HEC‑RAS (1‑D and 2‑D), CFD (3‑D) models, or similar; HEC‑LifeSim, HEC‑FIA, DAMRAE or similar (preferred).
Exceptional social skills and outstanding 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).
Field work and overnight travel may be required.
Current OSHA 40‑hr HAZWOPER training and refreshers (preferred).
Health & Safety training, medical monitoring, and client‑driven drug and background testing may be required.
Valid U.S. driver’s license and a satisfactory driving record for business travel (required).
Candidates must currently hold and maintain valid U.S. work authorization. New H‑1B visa lottery and employment‑based green card sponsorship are not available for this position.
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You will serve in a key leadership role, building out our hydraulic engineering capabilities, leveraging existing staff resources and collaborating with senior dam practitioners across the firm. Projects span hydraulic modeling of various complexities, spillway and other hydraulic structure evaluation and design, supporting probabilistic risk analysis, hydraulic and hydrologic 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. Ranked by ENR as one of the top environmental engineering design firms, Geosyntec is internationally known for its technical leadership 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 Collaboration and mentoring are cornerstones of Geosyntec’s culture. You should expect to work closely with experienced professionals who will help integrate you into Geosyntec’s culture as you advance to this next stage of your career of leading and growing a practice. We operate under a sell‑manage‑do culture, and so we expect that you’ll work on challenging technical projects while leveraging your existing knowledge and experience to help Geosyntec expand its current practices and capabilities through business development and client management.
Key Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership and guidance directed at growing a hydraulic engineering practice within Geosyntec’s Dams and Levees high‑growth area business line.
Pull together resources from our existing network of hydraulic and hydrologic engineers to support dam and levee projects across the country, and foster professional growth while recruiting additional technical team members.
Lead and serve as technical advisor on hydraulic analysis and modeling (1‑D, 2‑D, 3‑D) utilizing various hydraulic modeling software.
Rehabilitate and design existing/new spillways, outlet works, and other appurtenant dam hydraulic structures.
Conduct flood hazard assessment and dam breach modeling for inundation mapping and support of direct and indirect economic consequence estimation; familiarity with HEC‑FIA and HEC‑LifeSim is a plus.
Serve as H&H subject‑matter expert on probabilistic risk assessment and risk evaluation teams.
Serve as H&H subject‑matter expert, providing senior review for independent technical review boards on dam safety modification studies and design projects.
Inspect existing hydraulic structures and conduct dam safety review of previous analyses and studies against the current state of the practice and design criteria.
Interact with client representatives.
Maintain task and project‑level responsibility for scoping, performing, managing, and delivering multiple concurrent project assignments.
Play a role in lead generation, business development, staff development, and mentoring.
Help broaden our reputation and visibility via publishing and presenting at prominent industry conferences such as USSD, ASDSO, CEATI, and NHA.
Manage planning and directing staff, budgeting and budget management, schedule adherence, quality, client satisfaction, and profitability.
Recruit, supervise, and mentor junior staff.
Prepare technical reports, letters, memoranda, plans, specifications, and proposals.
Drive transportation to client or company project or office sites, and other business locations as needed.
Education and Licensure
Bachelor’s degree in water resources, environmental engineering, or a closely related field with emphasis on water resources or a closely related discipline (required).
Advanced degrees of the same (preferred).
Professional registration (i.e., P.E.) (required).
Skills, Experience and Qualifications
At least 10 years (15+ preferred) of direct engineering consulting experience working on water resource projects with a focus on dams and levees; or an equivalent combination of education and experience (required).
Experience with multi‑disciplinary project teams (required).
Experience with project management and business development (required).
Excellent leadership and detail orientation skills (required).
Experience performing hydrologic studies for dams and specific experience performing probabilistic flood hazard analyses (preferred).
Experience with modeling tools such as HEC‑RAS (1‑D and 2‑D), CFD (3‑D) models, or similar; HEC‑LifeSim, HEC‑FIA, DAMRAE or similar (preferred).
Exceptional social skills and outstanding 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).
Field work and overnight travel may be required.
Current OSHA 40‑hr HAZWOPER training and refreshers (preferred).
Health & Safety training, medical monitoring, and client‑driven drug and background testing may be required.
Valid U.S. driver’s license and a satisfactory driving record for business travel (required).
Candidates must currently hold and maintain valid U.S. work authorization. New H‑1B visa lottery and employment‑based green card sponsorship are not available for this position.
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