Fish Passage Engineer at AECOM — Denver, CO
Full job description
AECOM is seeking an enthusiastic Fish Passage Engineer to expand our fish passage, fish screening, and aquatic connectivity practice across the U.S. Mountain Region. The ideal candidate brings extensive experience designing and evaluating fish passage and exclusion structures, working alongside fisheries biologists and regulatory agencies. This position will integrate engineering with ecological principles to deliver innovative solutions for fish passage, stream restoration, and river infrastructure projects.
Responsibilities include leading the technical execution of projects including inspection, analysis, design, and regulatory compliance activities associated with a variety of fish passage design at hydraulic structures and the design of fish exclusion structures.
Responsibilities include:
- Hydrologic analyses including flood frequency estimates, statistical hydrology, model preparation, calibration, and verification.
- Hydraulic structure modeling including river diversions and intakes, using one- and two-dimensional modeling approaches as well as spreadsheet calculations.
- Technical expertise in the fields of fish passage, hydraulic engineering, hydrology, sediment transport and fluvial geomorphology
- Lead design and evaluation of fish passage and fish exclusion structures (fish ladders, screens, nature-like bypasses, barriers for native fish protection, etc.)
- Preparing technical reports.
- Preparing drawings, specifications and calculations.
- Performing detailed reviews of technical deliverables prepared by others.
- Communicating with multi-disciplinary teams, clients, and other stakeholders.
- Planning, directing, managing and supervising small to large scale projects.
- Managing project finances.
- Leading and mentoring junior staff.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of related experience with fish passage and fish screening design, evaluation, or regulation or demonstrated equivalency of education and/or experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master of Science or Master of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering with emphasis in Hydrologic, Hydraulic, and/or Water Resources Engineering.
- Professional Engineer in Colorado (or ability to obtain PE license within 6 months of hire)
- Passion for mentoring junior staff and leadership.
- Experience and demonstrated ability with the following software applications:
- HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS (one- and two-dimensional modeling environments).
- ESRI ArcMap or ArcPro (preferred) expertise.
- AutoDesk AutoCAD Civil 3D
- FLOW-3D expertise a plus.
- Sponsorship is not available now or in the future for this position.
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