Hydrogeologist

Hydrogeologist – Black & Veatch

Company: Black & Veatch Corporation

Request : 112365

Opportunity Type: Staff

Relocation eligible: Yes

Full time/Part time: Full-Time

Project Only Hire: No

Visa Sponsorship Available: No

Black & Veatch allows you to lend your talent and perspective to humanity’s biggest challenges in a flexible environment where you are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities. We offer competitive compensation; 401K match and benefits that start day 1. Our hybrid environment allows you to balance your work and personal life.

Black & Veatch is seeking a motivated, self‑reliant, and detail‑oriented person to join our team. This position will involve a mix of field and office assignments. There is also the potential for assignments outside of the home office locality. While this role is focused on work located in Florida, it also includes opportunities to support the team nationally. The position will plan and oversee tasks such as water supply evaluations, installation of groundwater production wells, well testing and analysis, injection wells, quantitative hydrogeology and other hydrogeology and geology tasks.

Additional responsibilities include leading field data evaluations, preparing well permit applications, generating technical specifications and bid documents, developing schedules and budgets, ensuring regulatory compliance, collaborating across disciplines, and report preparation.

This position provides an opportunity to provide guidance, training, and oversight to early‑career professionals, growth and development in technical experience, project task management, and presentation skills.

Black & Veatch’s Water Supply & Hydrogeology group helps clients achieve their goals for a reliable, sufficient, and sustainable water supply. We provide source water management, water quality evaluations, well rehabilitation, wellfield optimization, conceptual and numerical groundwater modeling, and hydrogeologic solutions that leverage assets and enhance system operability. Our team also supports clients focused on civil engineering applications, as well as traditional and alternative energy solutions.

• Strong organizational and communication skills (written, verbal, graphical)
• Work independently on tasks and projects with limited supervision
• Adherence to internal company health and safety and other processes and policies
• Provide professional hydrogeological support for a wide range of domestic and potentially international projects
• Underground Injection Control
• Develop and support proposal, work plan, and report deliverables
• Work with project technical leads, project managers, and delivery teams to ensure that work products meet client needs
• Ensure regulatory compliance with federal, state, and local requirements
• Evaluate and interpret collected geologic and hydrogeologic data
• Prepare or review graphical and tabular data summaries
• Develop and support the presentation of project findings to clients and technical professionals
• Oversight of subcontractors and adherence to project specifications and designs
• Mentor junior staff and contribute to knowledge sharing across the practice

• 5 to 9 years of relevant experience in the field of hydrogeology, geology, geosystems engineering or environmental geology
• Licensed Professional Geologist, Professional Engineer, or equivalent
• Field experience on projects such as drilling, aquifer testing and analysis, water quality sampling, and evaluation
• Advanced experience conducting subsurface geologic and hydrogeologic evaluations, hydrogeologic conceptualization and aquifer characterization
• Interpolation of hydrogeologic, hydro strati graphic, and water quality data
• Demonstrated problem‑solving abilities in complex geologic or hydrogeologic environments
• Experience in stakeholder engagement
• Working proficiency with ESRI ArcGIS or equivalent software
• Functional understanding of Python or other programming languages
• Experience coordinating and overseeing field staff, subcontractors, and project tasks

Bachelor’s degree in Geology, Geoscience, Earth Science or Environmental…