Yakima, WA, 98902, USA
3 days ago
Senior Stream Designer
In this role, as a Senior Stream Designer you will reside within the NW Ecosystem Restoration Design and Landscape Architecture and Arborist Practice. You’ll lead projects providing expertise to clients to solve problems and meet multiple design objectives, while guiding teams to execute those tasks in a high-quality manner as a subject matter expert. You will work collaboratively between our NW Ecosystem Restoration, Science, and Planning department; our Water Resources and Conveyance department; and our Transportation department (among others) on multiple ecological restoration, fish passage, and irrigation projects. Using your experience, you’ll be a technical lead, performing design oversight and coordinating the use of resources to accomplish quality deliverables and respond to client needs. In addition, you will lead teams consisting of stream design, hydraulic and hydrologic modeling, fluvial geomorphology, and aquatic and wildlife biology staff to complete multi-discipline evaluations of streams, stream/roadway crossings, and watershed planning/analysis. You’ll lead managerial efforts for planning, design, and engineering services. Projects may include stream restoration, aquatic organism passage, wildlife passage, irrigation, floodplain management, watershed restoration, and design manual creation. Project roles may include: design engineer of record, quality control reviewer as subject matter expert, design manager over a portfolio of sub-projects; as design team, staff augmentation to owners, or as contractors design team. Your contributions will also be individually or as the leader of design teams to prepare, and/or review plans, technical specifications, contract documents, and estimates. Your teams will prepare basis of design reports, provide biological and geomorphic assessments, develop H&H models, floodplain analysis, and bridge scour evaluation. You’ll be a liaison between clients and agencies, subcontractors, and other design teams including permitting support and construction oversight. Your experience will be valuable as you help supervise, develop and mentor other stream team members. Clients often include DOTs, Sound Transit, Cities, Counties, Districts at both a local level in Washington, nationally and potentially on a global scale supporting international projects. Agencies frequently engaged are Department of Fish and Wildlife, local tribal entities, and the Army Corps. Part of your role will be to build trust with clients as a seller-doer, to help with early, middle, and end game sales support. As a trusted partner external and internal to Jacobs, you will represent our One Jacobs capabilities to make sure we meet and exceed expectations. • Bachelor's Degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering, with experience in aquatic and terrestrial biology, fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, hydraulics, permitting for habitat and floodplain management, landscape architecture, sediment transport, scour, all as a basis for stream restoration design. • Minimum of 12 years of progressive stream restoration design and construction oversight experience. Experience includes building trust with clients, permitting agencies, and multidisciplinary teams. • Demonstrated experience in leading and reviewing stream restoration designs for key technical components of survey, fish habitat, fish passage, scour analysis, hydraulics and hydrology, flood risks, geomorphology, permit ready, irrigation, and constructability of projects. Experience includes use of LWM and boulders to provide channel complexity features. • Ability to communicate effectively to various levels of technical knowledge in an engaging and supportive way through various methods including virtually. • Possess time management skills, ability to prioritize multiple tasks, and ability to lead others as the task lead. You will be responsible for the scope, schedule, budget, and quality of the tasks to meet client expectations. • Ability to engage external and internal clients by building trust through scoping tasks, building a team to execute tasks, then managing task delivery to meet scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives. • Washington professional engineering license Ideally, you’ll also have: • Working knowledge of HEC-RAS 1D/2D and SHRH-2D • Working knowledge of AutoCAD Civil 3D or Microstation/Inroads • Working knowledge of ArcGIS • Proficiency with Microsoft Excel • Experience authoring and reviewing WSDOT Preliminary Hydraulic Designs (PHDs), Final Hydraulic Designs (FHDs), or equivalent basis of design reporting • Experience working on design build contracts • 1 or more successful constructed stream restoration projects in the last 5 years in Pacific Northwest • Meeting the WSDOT requirements of the stream team: stream design engineer • Professional engineering license in additional U.S. States Jacobs is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. 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