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Senior Water Quality Scientist

Remote: 
Full Remote
Contract: 
Full time
Work from: 
Missouri (USA)

Offer summary

Qualifications:

Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, or BSE) required; Master of Science preferred., 15+ years of experience in water quality planning, modeling, or engineering., Proficient in water quality software such as EFDC, WASP, and CE-QUAL-W2., Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities..

Key responsabilities:

  • Analyze water quality data and utilize 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D water quality models.
  • Lead scenario planning efforts for streams, rivers, lakes, and coastal systems to support client decision-making.
  • Collaborate with internal leaders to enhance business development and service delivery.
  • Manage project scope, schedule, budget, and quality of water quality services.

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Woolpert Construction & Civil Engineering Large https://woolpert.com/
1001 - 5000 Employees
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Job description

Overview:

The Senior Water Quality Scientist position is primarily responsible for assessing water quality sampling data, assessing the health and pollutants impacts in receiving stream, and performing scenario planning using water quality modeling within lakes, rivers, estuaries and coastal systems.  This position will leverage water quality sampling data as well as water quality modeling tools like EFDC, WASP, CE-QUAL-W2, along with other two-dimensional and three-dimensional water quality modeling tools to support the Water market as well as Woolpert’s other global service offerings.   

 

Our clients are facing a multitude of challenges including receiving stream eutrophication and growing non-point source pollution from stormwater, population growth and increasing urban stream wasting impacting the health and vitality of our water systems, climate change exacerbating pollutant runoff and stream erosion, accelerating coastal erosion due to sea level rise and more frequent storm surge, ecosystem impacts and the loss of fluvial and coastal resilience, etc.  The Senior Water Quality Scientist will assess water quality sampling data and leverage water quality models to better understand dynamic system responses to these challenges, visualize impacts, drive better and more cost-effective mitigation strategies.  

 

We are seeking a professional to join our team as a Senior Water Quality Scientist. This individual will work across the country with other Woolpert’s Water professionals to deliver water quality services.  In addition, Senior Water Quality Scientist will collaborate with the Federal, Buildings, Infrastructure, and Geospatial leaders to ensure the firm can support and deliver these services globally.   

Responsibilities:

  • Support the delivery of water quality services through analysis of water quality data and the use of 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D water quality models.   

  • Analyze water quality systems such as streams, rivers, lakes, estuaries, harbors, and coastal systems and lead scenario planning efforts to support client decision making and investment strategies. 

  • Collaborate with internal water market leaders to support the business development and delivery of water quality services.   

  • Support the growth of water quality services in municipal, federal, US, and overseas markets.   

  • Manage the scope, schedule, budget, and quality of water quality services and deliverable quality and implement standard operating procedures. 

  • Meet yearly market goals aligned with vision, strategy, structure, and staffing. 

  • Project management, including developing project plans, budgeting, scheduling, implementing QA/QC measures, creating proposals, and maintaining client relations. 

  • Support and develop innovation strategies to create marketplace differentiation and client value. 

  • Support managing team wide KPIs, including net revenue, utilization, and budget dollar variance. 

Qualifications:

  • Must have a Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, or BSE).  Master of Science preferred 

  • Must have 15+ years of experience in water quality planning/modeling/engineering 

  • Must have experience working in cross-discipline teams and serving as the technical lead. 

  • Must be proficient using water quality software such as EFDC, WASP, CE-QUAL-W2 software 

  • Must have above average verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills for both internal and external relationships.  

  • Must be able to manage multiple, competing priorities and projects  

  • Must be able to analyze and evaluate multiple project components, schedules and budgets. 

  • Must be able to establish and maintain rapport with clients, vendors, management and associates. 

  • Must possess negotiation, conflict management and problem-solving skills. 

  • Must possess above-average facilitation and/or meeting skills. 

  • Must have Microsoft Office suite skills. 

 

Unique Benefits

Certified as a Great Place to Work®, Woolpert is one of the fastest growing architecture, engineering, and geospatial (AEG) companies in the world. With over 60 offices and countless projects around the globe, Woolpert makes a real difference at home and abroad. In addition to offering competitive pay, we provide employees with a robust set of unique benefits, including:

  • Diverse experiences: Work on meaningful projects that improve quality of life around the world.
  • Freedom to work program: Set your own schedule and location (as appropriate).
  • Principal program: Earn the opportunity to become an owner of the firm.
  • Unlimited vacation: Take time off when it makes sense for you.
  • Career development: Explore a wide range of learning and growth opportunities within and across industries.
  • Health, life, vision, and dental insurance: Cover all your medical bases.
  • Paid sick time, fitness reimbursement, pet insurance, identity protection, technology stipend, employee assistance program, and more: Choose the benefits that work best for you.

 

 

Why Woolpert?

Woolpert is looking for supportive, goal-oriented, and career-minded individuals who are, or are looking to become, industry leaders in their fields. We blend design excellence with innovative technology and geospatial applications to deliver exceptional value to our clients. When you join us, you'll join a team of experts who are passionate about their work and dedicated to building the next generation of industry leaders. Woolpert embraces progress and innovation, creating limitless opportunities for your career growth.

 

 

 


Our vision: http://woolpert.com/about-us/

 

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

 

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of Woolpert or any of our subsidiaries about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at Woolpert via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of Woolpert, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by Woolpert's Talent Acquisition Team for this requisition and a valid agreement is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of Woolpert's applicant process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.

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