Hydraulics Practice Lead - Dams and Levees

Hydraulics Practice Lead - Dams and Levees Locations

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Location:

Louisville, KY

• Phoenix, AZ
• Dallas, TX
• Houston, TX
• Pittsburgh, PA
• Indianapolis, IN
• Boca Raton, FL

Do you want to build an impactful career to change the world for the better? Geosyntec has an exciting opportunity for a Hydraulics Practice Lead - Dams and Levees for our growing practice in our Louisville, KY;
Phoenix, AZ;
Dallas, TX;
Houston, TX;
Pittsburgh, PA; or Indianapolis, IN or any of our other Geosyntec offices throughout the U.S. This position may offer the flexibility to work a hybrid or fully remote schedule at the discretion of the company. You will serve in a key leadership role and build out our hydraulic engineering capabilities, leveraging existing staff resources and collaborating with other senior dam practitioners across the firm.

You will have the opportunity to establish national dams and levees‑focused hydraulic engineering group that works on complex projects involving hydraulic structures and other flood risk management infrastructure. 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 to address new ventures and complex problems involving our environment, natural resources, and civil infrastructure. Our engineers, scientists, technical and project employees serve our clients from offices across the world. Ranked by ENR as one of the top environmental engineering design firms, Geosyntec is internationally known for its technical leadership, broad experience, 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.

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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'd 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.

• Provide technical leadership and guidance directed at growing a hydraulic engineering practice within Geosyntec's Dams and Levees high‑growth area business line.
• Pulling together resources from our existing network of hydraulic and hydrologic engineers to support dam and levee projects across the country, and fostering their professional growth while also recruiting additional technical team members.
• Past experience with hydraulic analysis and modeling (1‑D and 2‑D, and 3‑D) utilizing various hydraulic modeling software. Ability to scope, lead, and serve as a technical advisor on modeling projects.
• Rehabilitation and design of existing/new spillways, outlet works, and other appurtenant dam hydraulic structures.
• 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‑Life Sim software is a plus.
• Serving as H&H Subject Matter Expert on probabilistic risk assessment and risk evaluation teams.
• Serving as H&H Subject Matter Expert and providing a senior review for Independent Technical Review Boards on dam safety modification studies and design projects.
• Inspections of existing hydraulic structures and dam safety review of previous analyses and studies against the current state of the practice and design criteria.
• Interacting with client representatives.
• Task and project‑level responsibility for scoping, performing, managing, and delivering multiple concurrent project assignments.
• Consistent…