Remote Software Developer Intern Jobs in Vacaville, CA

Geosyntec has an exciting opportunity for a Hydraulics Practice Lead - Dams and Levees for our growing practice in Los Angeles, CA, Davis, CA, or Denver, CO or any of our other Geosyntec offices throughout the U.S. This position may offer the flexibility to work a hybrid or fully remote schedule at the discretion of the company.

This position will provide key leadership and build out our hydraulic engineering capabilities, leveraging existing staff resources and collaborating with other senior dam practitioners across the firm. You will have the opportunity to establish national dams and levees-focused hydraulic engineering group that works on complex projects involving hydraulic structures and other flood risk management infrastructure. Projects span hydraulic modeling of various complexities, spillway, and other hydraulic structure evaluation and design, supporting probabilistic risk analysis, hydraulic and hydrologic modeling for large riverine systems, flood modeling, and dam breach consequence assessment studies. 

Geosyntec is an innovative, international engineering and consulting firm serving private and public-sector clients to address new ventures and complex problems involving our environment, natural resources, and civil infrastructure. Our engineers, scientists, technical and project employees serve our clients from offices across the world. Ranked by ENR as one of the top environmental engineering design firms, Geosyntec is internationally known for its technical leadership, broad experience, and exceptional client service.

We invest in our people.  Each employee is unique, and your career at Geosyntec will be too.  We offer competitive pay and benefits, and well-being programs to support you and your family.

To Learn More Visit: http://www.geosyntec.com/careers/. 

Collaboration and mentoring are cornerstones of Geosyntec's culture. You should expect to work closely with experienced professionals who will help integrate you into Geosyntec's culture as you advance to this next stage of your career of leading and growing a practice. We operate under a sell-manage-do culture, and so we expect that you'd work on challenging technical projects while leveraging your existing knowledge and experience to help Geosyntec expand its current practices and capabilities through business development and client management.

Some of the key responsibilities for this position include:

• Provide technical leadership and guidance directed at growing a hydraulic engineering practice within Geosyntec's Dams and Levees high-growth area business line;
• Pulling together resources from our existing network of hydraulic and hydrologic engineers to support dam and levee projects across the country, and fostering their professional growth while also recruiting additional technical team members;
• Past experience with hydraulic analysis and modeling (1-D and 2-D, and 3-D) utilizing various hydraulic modeling software. Ability to scope, lead, and serve as a technical advisor on modeling projects;
• Rehabilitation and design of existing/new spillways, outlet works, and other appurtenant dam hydraulic structures;
• Flood hazard assessment and dam breach modeling for inundation mapping and support of direct and indirect economic consequence estimation. Familiarity with HEC-FIA and HEC-LifeSim software is a plus;
• Serving as H&H Subject Matter Expert on probabilistic risk assessment and risk evaluation teams;
• Serving as H&H Subject Matter Expert and providing a senior review for Independent Technical Review Boards on dam safety modification studies and design projects;
• Inspections of existing hydraulic structures and dam safety review of previous analyses and studies against the current state of the practice and design criteria.
• Interacting with client representatives;
• Task and project-level responsibility for scoping, performing, managing, and delivering multiple concurrent project assignments;
• Consistent with our sell-manage-do business model, play a role in lead generation, business development, staff development, and mentoring;
• Help broaden our reputation and visibility via publishing and presenting at prominent industry conferences such as USSD, ASDSO, CEATI, and NHA;
• Task and project management, including planning and directing staff, budgeting and budget management, adherence to schedule, quality, client satisfaction, and profitability;
• Recruiting, supervising, and mentoring junior staff; and
• Preparing technical reports, letters, memoranda, plans, specifications, and proposals.
• Drive personal, company, and rental vehicles to client or company project or office sites, and other business locations, as needed.

• Bachelor's degree in water resources or environmental engineering or a closely related field with emphasis on water resources or a closely related discipline. (required)
• Advanced degrees of the same. (preferred)
• Professional registration (i.e., P.E.). (required)

• At least 10 years (15+ preferred) of direct engineering consulting experience working on water resource projects with a focus on dams and levees; or an equivalent combination of education and experience working on the types of projects described above. (required)
• Experience with multi-disciplinary project teams. (required)
• Experience with project management and business development (required)
• Excellent leadership and detail orientation skills. (required)
• Experience performing hydrologic studies for dams and specific experience performing probabilistic flood hazard analyses. (preferred)
• Experience with modeling tools such as platforms like HEC-RAS (1-D and 2-D), CFD (3-D) models, or similar. HEC-LifeSim, HEC-FIA, DAMRAE or similar. (preferred)
• Exceptional social skills and outstanding oral and written communication skills. (required)
• Ability and willingness to perform fieldwork and travel for site visits, inspections, and other business-related meetings or conferences. (required)
• Field work and overnight travel may be required. 
• Current OSHA 40-hr HAZWOPER training and refreshers. (preferred) 
• Health & Safety training, medical monitoring, and client-driven drug and background testing may be required. 
• Valid U.S. driver's license and a satisfactory driving record for business travel. (required)

This opportunity will be posted for at least five days. Below are the potential compensation ranges that we in good faith believe are applicable for this role at the time of this posting and are only applicable for jobs to be performed in the specified location(s) below. The typical base salary range for this position is just one component of Geosyntec's total compensation package for employees. Actual compensation will be determined based on education, experience, skill set and location.

• Minimum Salary: $156,115/year / Maximum Salary: $271,495/year (Los Angeles, CA)
• Minimum Salary: $149,330/year / Maximum Salary: $259,690/year (Davis, CA)
• Minimum Salary: $142,540/year / Maximum Salary: $247,885/year (Denver, CO)

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including, paid holidays, vacation, sick, and personal paid time off, medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, 401(k), and other benefits to eligible employees.

#LI-KO1

#LI-Hybrid

#LI-Onsite

#LI-Remote