Water Distribution System Hydraulic Engineer

The Opportunity

Black & Veatch has an exciting opportunity for a Water System Hydraulic Engineer . In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Provide technical and execution assistance to support our water distribution hydraulic modeling and system planning projects across the United States
• Evaluate water systems for capacity, condition, water quality, resilience, and operating efficiency; summarize findings and recommendations
• Perform analysis and projections of water demands
• Use hydraulic modeling software to build, calibrate, and evaluate water systems for system planning and design support
• Perform risk-based assessments to develop and prioritize capital improvement programs
• Integrate condition assessment and asset management data to support replacement & renewal planning
• Use cutting-edge hydraulic modeling, GIS, asset management, and data visualization software to address client challenges
• Support client marketing and business development activities.
• Own assigned technical tasks and deliverables including performing quality checks of calculations, models, and figures before submittals

The Team

As an employee-owned, global leader in building critical infrastructure in the water, energy, telecommunications and government services markets, Black & Veatch has a long-standing reputation for providing world-class service to our clients.

Our U.S. planning & asset management business has seen consistent growth driven by our clients’ needs to address challenges stemming from population growth, aging infrastructure, system reliability and resilience concerns, the need to improve operational efficiency, water quality regulations, and the lack of effective tools to leverage large data sets to help guide decision making. This position provides an opportunity to join Black & Veatch’s Distribution & Collection System Planning team to help grow our market share by providing world-class water & wastewater infrastructure planning services.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of water infrastructure assessment experience including hydraulic modeling, master planning, asset management, and data analysis
• Professional Engineer (P.E.) License or P. Eng
• Experience working on water system modeling and planning projects, leading technical tasks, and executing water distribution system studies and assessments that involve system operations modeling, optimization techniques, risk & resiliency evaluations, capital and life-cycle cost analyses, CIP prioritization
• Experience with preparing project presentations and communications with clients
• Familiarity with wastewater infrastructure systems
• Proficient with report writing and PowerPoint presentations
• Experience and/or familiarity with Geographic Information System (GIS) technology and software (i.e. ArcGIS Pro)
• Capable in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, etc.)
• Proficient with data analyses and analytics and comfortable working with large datasets
• Familiarity of dynamic data visualization software such as PowerBI
• Experience and/or familiarity with hydraulic modeling software such as:
  • InfoWater Pro
  • OpenFlows Water (WaterGEMS) and Wastewater
  • AquaTwin Water and Wastewater
  • EPANET
  • PC SWMM
  • InfoWorks ICM

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.
• Minimum of 5 year 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.

Work Environment/Physical Demands

• 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.