TWDB - Flood Management Evaluation Engineer​/Project Manager; Engineer II - V​/Project Manager II - IV

Flood Management Evaluation Engineer/Project Manager

The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) is seeking a highly motivated individual to join the team who will have the opportunity to work with flood risk reduction efforts throughout Texas. The ideal candidate has knowledge of and experience with hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, mapping, planning, design, and construction of flood risk reduction projects. This position will coordinate and communicate with a variety of communities, project stakeholders, management, and others as needed.

Performs moderately complex (journey-level) to advanced and/or managerial (senior-level) Engineering or Project Management work. Work involves technical analysis and engineering evaluation of watershed study reports. Manages engineering consultant contracts and oversees project schedules, budgets, change orders, and documents for TWDB-funded flood control planning projects identified by Regional Flood Planning Groups (RFPGs). Coordinates, guides, tracks, reviews and oversees the Flood Management Evaluations (FME) being performed by contractors.

Coordinates and communicates with a variety of communities, project stakeholders, management, and others as needed. Represents TWDB at assigned meetings and engagements. Serves as an information source for team members and other staff, and provides training for TWDB staff and applicants on TWDB processes. Works under general to minimal supervision, with limited to considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.

May train others. Reports to the Manager of the Flood Management Evaluation Department.

Essential job functions include assisting in the development and management of professional services contracts, developing new FME program policies, working with the TWDB Contract department to procure FME contractors, creating and updating relevant documents and processes for successful administration and closeout of the FME program contracts, coordinating with FME communities and FME program contractors to ensure all TWDB requirements are met, assisting with developing and implementing quality control and monitoring efforts related to contractor-performed studies and overall program implementation, coordinating, facilitating, and otherwise serving as liaison between TWDB agency programs, external agency contractors, regional flood planning groups, and local sponsors, monitoring contract and project schedules, contractor and staff work performance, budgets, and related costs to identify potential issues or delays and ensure appropriate use of funds, managing various aspects of projects and contracts, recommending courses of action to address delays or other issues that may arise, and documenting project files on significant actions, performing technical review and evaluation of engineering related documents;

determining relevant deficiencies, options, and recommendations to ensure compliance with TWDB rules and regulations, monitoring project schedules, budgets, and invoice costs and/or released costs to identify potential issues or delays, serving as project manager, monitoring project schedules, budgets, and requirements, and reviewing eligibility and approving payment requests, conducting on site observations to monitor the progress of the construction of TWDB-funded projects for compliance with TWDB rules and specifications, assisting owners with problem resolution, and ensuring work is completed in accordance with approved contract document, advising on project and engineering matters and, when needed, overseeing related reviews conducted by other staff, coordinating with various federal and state agencies regarding projects and programs, as necessary, providing information and assistance to appropriate TWDB staff and clients, staying informed of changes to pertinent laws, regulations, guidelines, policies, and instructions and correctly applying them to assigned projects, identifying and participating in all job-related training, providing support for Essential Job Functions described above for additional flood planning teams due to temporary staffing conditions as assigned by Division Director, assisting the other staff and management, as appropriate, in identifying process improvements and areas within the department or other areas that need improvement or could be streamlined, assisting the staff and manager in reviewing and preparing procedures and guidelines and in conducting training as necessary, promoting an environment that encourages teamwork, accountability, professional development, and improvement in performance, conducting outreach efforts, including public speaking, maintaining current information in TWDB's projects database pertaining to the FME studies, directing, assigning, and evaluating the work of project staff, participating in overseeing and reviewing Flood Protection Planning Grant studies, Regional Flood Plans, developing the State Flood Plan and related activities, maintaining…