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Water Conveyance Engineer (Hydraulic Modeling)

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Water Conveyance Engineer (Hydraulic Modeling)

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Base pay range

$95,300.00/yr - $166,900.00/yr

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

If you're interested in a rewarding career working with a global leader and the industry's best and most innovative professionals, Jacobs is where you belong. Our teams engage with new technologies and at the forefront of large, complex projects to help navigate the competing challenges involved with reliable water supply, management, conveyance, and natural resource protection.

We're seeking a Water Conveyance Engineer to assist with water, wastewater, and/or stormwater planning, modeling, and design development services for a variety of related projects. In this role, you'll work with other members of our local, regional, and national teams to perform specialized design development and hydraulic modeling assignments for water conveyance and management systems of varied sizes, configurations, and capacities, and for a variety of potential clients. Engagements may involve potable water, wastewater, irrigation, hydropower, and stormwater applications, supporting water transmission, distribution, collection, treatment facilities, flood control, industrial facilities, or other needs. This work involves new and innovative approaches and technologies in hydraulic modeling, system planning and evaluation, and solutions development using a variety of industry leading hydraulic modeling software, such as such as InfoWorks ICM, InfoSWMM/InfoSewer, SewerGEMs, XPSWMM, PCSWMM, Mike Urban/Mike+, EPASWMM, EPASSOAP, InfoWaterPro, WaterGEMs, EPANet, Optimizer, and ArcGIS. In this work, you will coordinate with other project disciplines and conduct occasional field activities such as site assessment, data collection, analysis, documentation, and construction support.

Depending on project size and complexity, you'll have the opportunity to serve as a technical subject matter expert, task lead, and/or in design management roles performing technical tasks, quality control, and coordinating resources to support multiple, concurrent projects through all phases of planning, execution, and closeout. You'll also contribute to client engagement and development, and professional services marketing, sales, and business development pursuits.

At Jacobs, you will have the opportunity to grow professionally through your participation with high-functioning project teams, collaborating via our positive and empowering culture to deliver challenging projects and innovation in concert with our industry leading subject matter experts and market solutions teams. Through your engagement you will also build client relationships and foster future client opportunities in collaboration with our sales teams. Join us and we will support your professional growth and progressive career advancement, helping you explore all that you can do across our global company, with opportunities to share your knowledge and build experience and leadership along the way.

Here's what you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering, or other applicable Engineering disciplines.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license or ability to obtain within 18 months of start date.
• Minimum of three years of progressive engineering experience in water system and infrastructure related disciplines, hydraulic evaluations, and design (water resources, stormwater, drainage; drinking water; and/or wastewater and sewer; etc.), including with flow management, diversion, and conveyance, piping and open channel systems, pumping, control valves, storage, other typical system hydraulic structures and elements, and controls.
• Core technical hydraulic and/or hydrologic model development, calibration, and evaluation experience using at least two of the modeling software packages listed above, or similar, along with ArcGIS, in the planning and analysis of water systems, networks, and infrastructure.
• Varied and progressive experience developing planning, advancing, and delivering engineering modeling studies and associated technical reports and presentations.
• Familiarity and experience with typical and related system master planning approaches, technical and industry standards, regulations, and requirements.
• Foundational experience with MS Office 365 (Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) and with technical writing, editing, and presentations.
• Demonstrated experience working and collaborating effectively within multi-disciplinary teams, both internally and with external and client partners, to accomplish complex engineering, planning, and design assignments.
• Attention to detail, quality, and a demonstrated ability to communicate, collaborate, and self-manage your focus and engagements to deliver effectively on project and production delivery commitments and requirements with minimal oversight.
  
  

Ideally, you'll also have

• Four or more years of engineering experience in water related disciplines.
• Master's degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering, or related discipline.
• Design and/or project management experience.
• Experience with statistical data analysis and programming, such as Python Scripting for GIS and Visual Basic for Excel.
  
  

Posted Salary Range Minimum

95,300.00

Posted Salary Range Upper

166,900.00

Our health and welfare benefits are designed to invest in you, and in the things you care about. Your health. Your well-being. Your security. Your future. Employees have access to medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance, a 401(k) plan, and the ability to purchase company stock at a discount. Eligible employees may also enroll in a deferred compensation plan or the Executive Deferral Plan. Jacobs has an unlimited U.S. Personalized Paid Time Off (PPTO) policy for full-time salaried/exempt employees, seven paid holidays, one floating holiday, and caregiver leave. And certain roles may be eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, performance discretionary bonus, and stock.

The base salary range for this position is $95,300.00 to $166,900.00. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

At Jacobs, we're partnering across the globe to create the best project outcomes by maximizing the design, digital technology, and support capabilities of our Global Integrated Delivery (GID) teammates. By joining Jacobs, you'll commit to supporting and engaging with these teams, as we work to build a company like no other.

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

Your application experience is important to us, and we're keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team via Careers Support.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Civil Engineering, Design Services, and IT Services and IT Consulting

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