Senior Ecosystem Restoration Design Engineer Lead

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As a Senior Ecosystem Restoration Design Engineer Lead based out of California (Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose or other city in the Bay Area) you will reside within the US West Environmental Ecosystem Restoration Department. You will work collaboratively across our markets Environmental Permit and Planning, Water Resources and Conveyance, Resilience and Climate Change, and Transportation (among others) on multiple ecological restoration, fish passage, wildlife crossing, irrigation, multi-benefit flood management, watershed resilience, and/or coastal resilience 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 designers, hydraulic and hydrologic modelers, fluvial geomorphologists, civil and flood management engineers, landscape architects, and aquatic and wildlife biologists to complete multi-discipline evaluations of streams, stream/roadway crossings, watershed planning/analysis, and multi-benefit projects.

You’ll lead managerial efforts for planning, design, and engineering services. 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 contractor’s 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 federal agencies, California state agencies, cities and counties, flood management districts, reclamation districts, local maintaining agencies, water supply agencies, watershed groups, environmental non-profits, tribal entities, and many others. 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 or 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 10 years of progressive stream restoration design and construction oversight experience.
• California Professional Engineer license.
• Experience developing restoration design plan sets, specifications, estimates, and construction documents.
• 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 readiness, irrigation, and constructability of projects.
• 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,…