Description
Design, analyze, and implement engineering solutions and programs for water supply, water quality, watershed health, and regulatory compliance across utilities and communities.
- • Supervise field crews installing and testing wells, intakes, meters, and monitoring equipment.
- • Design and review detention basins, storm drains, flood control facilities, culverts, and other hydraulic structures.
- • Provide technical analyses to support water rights negotiations and allocation planning.
- • Perform and calibrate hydrologic, hydraulic, and water quality models.
- • Compile and analyze water resource data using GIS, GPS, and databases.
- • Maintain documentation and dashboards on watershed and source water health.
- • Prepare engineering reports, design plans, specifications, and permitting submittals.
- • Develop and recommend engineering standards, SOPs, and policies for conservation and compliance.
- • Provide technical assistance to communities on stormwater program design, monitoring, and BMP implementation.
- • Present engineering findings and project proposals to agencies, boards, and community groups.
- • Design outfalls, reuse systems, and discharge strategies for treated effluent in compliance with permits.
- • Monitor and forecast water demand, use, and quality trends for service areas.
- • Identify and quantify sources of water pollution using monitoring, tracer studies, and data analytics.
- • Develop watershed protection and restoration plans, including BMP and green infrastructure designs.
- • Develop and implement standardized sampling, QA/QC, and assessment methods.
- • Lead feasibility studies for treatment technologies, storage, conveyance, and supply alternatives.
- • Plan and oversee investigations of storage capacity, wastewater discharges, pollutants, permits, and compliance issues.
- • Perform cost-benefit and lifecycle analyses for watershed and water infrastructure projects.
- • Analyze stormwater systems to identify and design improvements, LID practices, and flood mitigation.
- • Develop operations strategies and control plans to meet supply, conservation, and regulatory goals.
- • Oversee chemical, physical, and biological water quality sampling and ensure compliance with standards.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
