Remote water / wastewater Master Planner Modeler (Architecture)

Ardurra is seeking a remote water / wastewater Master Planner Modeler to join our growing California Water Practice. 

We're open to remote workers (would need the ability to get CA PE license within 12 months of hire)

 Primary Function:

Assist with planning, directing, and overseeing projects within Ardurra's Southwest Practice. Working closely with the Group Leader will be responsible for technical oversight, supporting business development, proposal development, project management, and oversight of group personnel and resources. You will help to build our local group and provide exceptional client service. You will provide management expertise to ensure that projects are delivered on budget and on schedule. You will provide technical expertise to help develop effective solutions and to ensure the technical and quality aspects meet all client expectations and industry standards. In addition to your project responsibilities, you will provide advice, mentoring and development to other engineers. Excellent leadership, project and people management and written/verbal communication skills are all critical to success.

The ideal candidate will have a well-rounded background or proven skills in master planning and hydraulic analyses and will support highly technical staff on water / wastewater / recycled water planning projects. The candidate will also have strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Primary Duties:

• Plan, schedule, and track milestones, tasks, and activities
• Develop and run hydraulic models and document results in reports or technical memoranda.
• Perform research and analytical tasks related for water, recycled water, and wastewater masterplans, urban water management plans, asset management plans, water supply assessments, risk assessments, flow monitoring reports, etc.
• Attend meetings to discuss project progress and results.
• Actively managing assigned projects
• Assist with business development activities.
• Archive final deliverable documents – reports, models, and associated tools.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in civil, environmental, or related Engineering from an ABET accredited university or equivalent. Equivalent modeling and master planning project experience with another STEM degree will be considered.
• 15 years of related experience in water and wastewater master planning tasks related to but not limited to: sewer I/I analysis, flow factor development and projections, business risk calculations, alternative analysis, cost estimations, alternatives scenario analysis, fire flow analysis etc.
• State of California PE license is required or ability to obtain within 12 months of hire date.
• 8 years of experience with hydraulic modeling tools such as Autodesk modeling products like InfoWaterPro, InfoSWMM, InfoSewer, Aquanuity or Bentley products like WaterGEMS, WaterCAD, and SewerCAD or other equivalent software. Experience with other modeling tools will be considered.
• Minimum 3 years of experience with ArcGIS Pro and integration with Innovyze software
• Excellent technical writing skills for use in development of master plans, studies, engineering reports, and related technical documents.
• Experience with data analysis software like R, Tableau, Power BI, etc. and scripting languages like SQL, Python, etc. (desirable but not required)
• Experience with Asset Management software like InfoAsset Planner (desirable but not required)

Why Ardurra?

While Ardurra offers competitive compensation and rich benefits programs, it is our culture that truly sets us apart from our peers. We nurture a family-like culture, striving to create a work environment that is enjoyable, challenging and rewarding but also fun. We are acutely focused on developing our staff, whether through our internal Ardurra Academy or through our industry-leading Leadership program. We have made a deliberate and focused commitment to nurture a people-centric culture where people are: valued as individuals; supported in their professional and career development with multiple, varied career paths; provided the tools and resources to be successful, engaged, and satisfied in their work; and positive benefits, time-off programs, and flexibility to help maintain a healthy balance between work and home.

Ardurra is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

Ardurra does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Agency Agreement, Ardurra will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. If a resume or candidate is submitted to any hiring manager without a previously signed agreement, Ardurra reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. These candidates will be considered property of Ardurra. We're not currently looking to add any more agencies to our list of approved vendors, so please do not contact any of our managers or recruitment team with sales calls or details of your candidates.

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