Ops Professional Engineer Iii - 37950025

Ops Professional Engineer III -

This position is responsible for duties relating to planning, regulation, and compliance of project components in the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP), other Legislatively directed environmental restoration projects, and implementing large-scale ecological restoration projects that require hydrological and other environmental engineering strategies to complete.

Responsibilities include the following:

• Provide technical support, hydrologic strategies for ecological restoration, reviewing groundwater and surface water hydrology modeling, stormwater reservoirs and water quality treatment projects, levee modification, seepage management projects, groundwater and surface water quality and flows, and cost-benefit analyses.
• Represent the Department during interagency meetings in the development of projects supporting environmental restoration, basis of project design reports, project implementation reports, hydrological and ecological modeling for CERP and non-CERP projects.
• Coordinate and/or participate in pre-application meetings, pre-construction, and compliance site visits relating to assigned project tasks supporting large-scale, complex ecosystem restoration projects.
• Communicate with applicants, consultants, and staff of other governmental agencies including project managers and engineers regarding technical design criteria, treatment standards, and other information needed to perform assigned tasks.
• Coordinate with other Department staff to ensure consistency between multiple Department issued permits (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan Act, Environmental Resource Permits, and others).
• Compliance review in coordination with other OWPER staff to evaluate compliance schedules (interim and final) for construction, operation, and monitoring of permitted activities. Incumbent will analyze permit required data submittals and arrange for site inspections as needed.
• Responsible for proper use and care of state-owned property assigned to position. Attend workshops and training, as required. Perform other related duties as required by supervisor.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of the concepts, terminology, principles and analytical techniques of stormwater engineering and environmental restoration concepts and terminology of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) the planning, design, construction, and operation of large-scale ecosystem restoration projects
• Skill in professional use of Adobe, Google Earth, and Microsoft Office Suite, primarily Outlook, Word, and Excel
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing understand and apply applicable rules, regulations, policies, and procedures establish and maintain effective working relationships with DEP staff, other state and federal agencies and the public work effectively, independently, and under time pressure, to plan, organize and prioritize workload gather, record and analyze engineering data relating to the construction and operation of engineering features
• Physical ability to inspect field sites and sit for extended periods of time

Minimum Qualifications:

• A valid driver's license.
• Travel. At least 4 years of verifiable related experience in large-scale environmental restoration projects. Post-secondary degrees from an accredited college or university with a degree in Engineering may be used as an alternative for the required years of experience on a year-for-year basis.

Pay: $30.00 - $40.00 per hour (commensurate based on experience)