Water Resources Engineer - Hydrogeology

Why Black and Veatch

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.

At Black & Veatch, you own your career with purpose and meaning. You are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities at every step of your career journey. Bring your big ideas knowing you are safe to be who you are and speak up with concerns or questions and put your diverse talents and perspectives to use.

Job Summary

Black & Veatch is seeking a motivated, self-reliant, and detailed oriented person to join our team. This position will consist of an approximate mix of field and office assignments. There is also the potential for assignments outside of their home office locality. While this role is focused on work located in Texas, it also includes opportunities to support the team nationally.

This person 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 tasks associated with hydrogeology and geology. This individual will also be responsible for leading field data evaluations, preparing well permit applications, generating technical specifications and bid documents, developing schedules and budgets, ensuring regulatory compliance, collaboration 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.

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The Team

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.

Key Responsibilities

• • 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
  • 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

Management Responsibilities

Individual Contributor

Preferred Qualifications

• 5-8 years of relevant experience in the field of water resources engineering, hydrogeology, geology, geosystems engineering
• Professional Engineer certifications
• Advanced experience in water supply well specifications and design, water well construction, well pump design/pump selection, well maintenance and rehabilitation, performing aquifer pump tests
• Strong understanding of wells and wellfield asset lifecycle, maintenance strategies, and regulatory compliance.
• Strong understanding of federal and state water regulations, permitting processes, and compliance
• Active participation in professional organizations
• Experience mentoring and developing junior staff in technical and professional growth
• Strong communication and presentation skills and experience engaging executive level stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver high quality client outcomes.

Minimum Qualifications

Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering from either a recognized accredited program in their home country or the country in which the professional is practicing or equivalent experience in Engineering work.

Minimum of 5 years related work experience.

All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Holds an active engineering registration or licensure to support engineer of record (EOR) requirements for BV projects in applicable countries, and supports where necessary.

Certifications

Holds an active engineering registration (Professional Engineer, P.E.) or licensure to support engineer of record (EOR) requirements for BV projects in applicable countries, and supports where necessary.

Work Environment and Schedule

• Hybrid or flexible work options may be offered after the first 90 days of employment based upon manager discretion, job performance and work assignments.
• Normal office environment with a hybrid work schedule: 3 days in office and 2 days remote 
• Some employees are subject to extreme cold (temperatures below 30 degrees for periods of more than one hour), extreme heat (temperatures above 90 degrees for periods of more than one hour), hazards (electrical currents, working on scaffolding and high places, exposures to chemicals), atmospheric conditions (fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, poor ventilation), and oils. Some employees are required to use respiratory systems as a result of fumes, mists, gases, or to comply with governmental regulatory requirements. All positions require the following physical abilities: talking, fingering, grasping, hearing, keyboard input, seeing, and writing. All positions require the ability to exert up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, or a negligible amount of force constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or move objects.
• Work involves sitting most of the time. Some positions require the following physical abilities: reaching, climbing, balancing, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, walking, standing, pulling, lifting, pushing, carrying, and driving. Some positions require the ability to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or move objects.