Sargent & LundyRemote
Mid-Level Water Resources Engineer
United States of America
Full Time
2 weeks ago
$73,000 - $106,000 USD
No H1B
Key skills
Hydrologic designHydraulic designFlooddrought assessment for streamsriversSite gradingDrainage designStormwater management systemsReport preparationRainfall gauge data analysisStream station data analysisHEC-HMSHEC-RAS 1DHEC-RAS 2DRAS MapperQGISGlobal MapperTR-55GIS softwareCivil3DAutoCADMATLABPythonRVBScriptAIArtificial IntelligenceAgentic
About this role
Sargent & Lundy is a company specializing in delivering advanced engineering solutions across various sectors including power generation and environmental compliance. The Mid-Level Water Resources Engineer will collaborate with team leads to execute water resources deliverables and site development engineering tasks, focusing on designing and analyzing power plant sites.
Responsibilities:
- Determining flood levels for rainfall events spanning 100-year, 500-year, and 1000-year occurrences
- Utilizing ArcGIS, StreamStats, and DEM data for watershed delineation
- Conducting extreme value analysis on stream and rainfall gauges
- Crafting H&H models with HEC-HMS and HEC-RAS
- Performing dam failure analysis
- Estimating IDF curves based on rainfall gauge data
- Extracting probable maximum precipitation (PMP) data from existing publications
- Designing storm drains, open channel drainage systems, and stormwater ponds
- Developing site layout, grading plans, and drainage designs
- Designing roads and trackwork for optimal functionality
Requirements:
- Hold an BSCE in Civil Engineering from an ABET Engineering program, with a solid academic foundation and relevant coursework
- Possess 3 to 5 years of hands-on experience in hydrologic and hydraulic design and analysis, including expertise in assessing floods and droughts for streams and rivers
- Strong course work in hydrology and hydraulics
- Experience in various areas of civil engineering, such as site grading, drainage, and stormwater management systems
- Experienced in report preparation
- Experienced in analyzing raw data from existing rainfall gages and stream stations
- Showcase mastery with multiple design tools, including HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS (1D, 2D), RAS Mapper, QGIS, Global Mapper, TR-55, GIS software, Civil3D, and AutoCAD
- Have familiarity with programming languages like MATLAB, Python, R, or VBScript
- Exhibit strong teamwork skills, able to collaborate effectively within a team environment
- Be prepared for occasional travel as part of the job requirements
- PE license
- Programming or scripting (e.g., Python, MATLAB, advanced Excel) to automate calculations, design checks, reporting, or data transformation is valued but not required
- Additional learning, such as a minor, certificate, or other training in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, or related fields that helps you apply automation or agentic AI to real engineering problems