Principal Engineer Water Resources

Position: PRINCIPAL ENGINEER WATER RESOURCES
Job Description and Duties

The Department of Water Resources (DWR) Plan Formulation Branch (PFB) is seeking a dynamic, forward-thinking leader who is passionate about improving California's water future, thrives on empowering others, has a strategic mindset, and fosters a collaborative culture founded on respect, trust, and continuous improvement. This position serves as the Principal Engineer, Water Resources, Manager and provides high-level guidance, policy direction, and leadership in developing the State's strategic water resource master plan, known as the California Water Plan, as well as advancing DWR's Climate Change Program.

DWR's multidisciplinary Climate Change and California Water Plan teams develop and perform cutting edge climate risk and adaptation studies as well as manage California's only comprehensive statewide water resource planning framework. This position is responsible for overseeing the assessment of current and future water resource conditions, fostering innovation, and recommending effective policies, statutory changes, investments, and actions to address critical water issues across all water resource sectors.

This includes developing and delivering presentations, reports, and other communication materials that clearly convey complex technical and planning information to executive leadership, decision-makers, and non-technical audiences, and supporting effective understanding and participation in the California Water Plan process.

The California Water Plan provides planning insights into the future and identifies strategies to meet California's water resource management needs within the framework of the Executive Branch's water policy. The California Water Plan integrates many sectors related to water resources and includes, but is not limited to, water supply (urban, agricultural, and environmental), water quality, flood management, wildfire and forest management, ecosystems, land use, energy, watershed management, and groundwater.

Geographic coverage of planning activities ranges from headwaters to the ocean and occurs at both statewide and watershed scales. As the leader of the California Water Plan, this position directs investigations, integrates multidisciplinary work, and recommends policies, actions, and investments that promote the sustainability and resilience of California's water resources.

Leadership exercised in this position includes overseeing program development and management involving more than a dozen work streams performed through highly matrixed teams involving several Divisions and Programs. This role requires collaboratively synthesizing workstream outputs into recommended State water policies and investments, providing thoughtful leadership, fostering innovation, and developing strategic recommendations to accelerate implementation of water policy and actions, including improvements to regulation and permitting, institutional authorities, financing, and governance.

This position also provides information and strategic guidance for special initiatives such as potential changes in statute, advancing the Governor's Administration policy directives, informing General Obligation Bonds, shaping public water resource planning and policy conversations, and recruiting and sustaining a relevant and high-performing water planning and policy organization.

You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement.

Minimum Requirements

You will find the

Minimum Requirements in the Class Specification.

* PRINCIPAL ENGINEER WATER RESOURCES

Additional Documents

* Job Application Package Checklist

* Duty Statement

Position Details

Job Code #:

JC-512090

Position #(s):

-691

Working Title:

PRINCIPAL ENGINEER WATER RESOURCES

Classification:

PRINCIPAL ENGINEER WATER RESOURCES

$15,263.00 - $17,336.00

New to State candidates will be hired into the minimum salary of the classification or minimum of alternate range when applicable.

# of Positions:

1

Work Location:

Sacramento County

Telework:

Hybrid

Job Type:

Permanent, Full Time

Facility:

Mailing Address

Department Information

Division of Planning, Plan Formulation Branch, Sacramento

Department of Water Resources (DWR) was established in 1956 by the California State Legislature. We manage California's water resources, systems, and infrastructure, including the State Water Project, in a responsible sustainable way.

At DWR, we are embedding climate change response into every project we undertake. We have set standards to help evaluate how each project incorporates climate resilience principles and ensure consistency across the Department. Our mission is to sustainably manage the water resources of California, in cooperation with other agencies, to benefit the state's people and protect, restore, and enhance the natural and human environments.

DWR also strives to create a trusting and welcoming workplace where employees embrace diverse viewpoints and treat each other with civility and respect. An important component of DWR's equal employment opportunity…