Senior Ecosystem Restoration Design Engineer Lead

Market Environmental

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

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 (such as the US Bureau of Reclamation, US Army Corps of Engineers, US Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, other others);
California state agencies (such as Department of Water Resources, Central Valley Flood Protection Board, California Natural Resources Agency, Department of Fish and Wildlife, State Water Resources Control Board, and others), 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. Experience includes building trust with clients, permitting agencies, and multidisciplinary teams.
• 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 ready, irrigation, and…