Dams Engineering Manager

Why Black and Veatch

Black & Veatch allows you to lend your talent and perspective to humanity’s biggest challenges in a flexible environment where you are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities. We offer competitive compensation; 401K match and benefits that start day 1. Our hybrid environment allows you to balance your work and personal life. At Black & Veatch, you own your career with purpose and meaning. You are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities at every step of your career journey. Bring your big ideas knowing you are safe to be who you are and speak up with concerns or questions and put your diverse talents and perspectives to use. 

The Opportunity

Black & Veatch’s Civil Works Team is looking for a Dams Engineering Manager with strong technical skills in dam and hydraulic structures engineering design, rehabilitation and construction to lead projects for our clients in the Northwest, West Coast, and Southwest regions. In this position you will manage and mentor junior staff and develop an execution team capable of delivering a variety of multi-disciplinary dams, hydropower, flood control, and hydraulic structures projects.

In this role you will have the opportunity to:

• Lead projects and tasks involving dams, spillways, intakes, outlets, and other hydropower and hydraulic structure improvements.
• Deliver innovative, high-quality design products and participate in construction processes for dam and hydropower clients.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts across a wide array of disciplines to deliver plans, specifications, cost estimates, and technical analyses.
• Manage and mentor junior staff and review lower-level engineering work or assignments.
• Perform site and client visits in advancement of project delivery.
• Coordinate with personnel in other departments and client personnel to review designs and resolve areas of concern.
• Plan, schedule, conduct, and coordinate detailed phases of engineering work for an assigned portion of a major project or the total project of moderate scope.
• Engage in trainings to advance your leadership capabilities, organizational understanding, and build your internal network within the first 18-month of employment. These intensive training programs will provide you with the tools and insights into the BV organization to develop and advance your career towards business leadership at the regional and national levels.
• Following training completion, function as an engineering manager supporting project and pursuit teams on Dams, Hydropower, and other Civil Works projects

The Team

As part of BV Operations, your skills will be aligned to projects that support the Fuels & Natural Resources Team. This will include our market sectors - Governments & Communities, Advanced Power Generation, and Mining. You will be engaged with exciting projects across the globe. From small community improvements to grand-scale Mega-Projects, you will be Building a World of Difference through infrastructure growth and development while learning and focusing on your own individual development. The foundation of BV Operations provides the ability to engage on projects where your skills are most valuable while allowing for a collaborative and innovative culture offering resulting in greater challenges and career development opportunities.

The Civil Works Team is a seller-doer team with a portfolio of major civil works projects across the country that are including municipal, state, Federal, and private clients with portfolios of meaningful impact to the communities they serve. We are seeking ownership-driven technical professional who thrives in a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and kindness that focuses on the goal of being the leader in sustainable infrastructure in the civil consulting industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Communicating and working directly with client counter parts to understand key interests for developing technical solutions to their infrastructure challenges, providing ideas and strategies to deliver projects from concept to closeout.
• Translating client direction into efficient workplans and coordinating with project team members to deliver high-quality work products.
• Creating written technical documents, technical drawings, specifications, cost estimates, alternatives analyses, and other common engineering deliverables.
• Having familiarity with design guides, standards, systems, and applicable engineering codes relevant to the hydropower industry.
• Demonstrating the ability to leverage knowledge of general engineering principles including hydraulics, civil/structural design, geotechnical considerations, and mechanical systems to generate unique, engineered solutions.
• Preparing and overseeing the preparation of calculations and design documents.
• Participating in equipment procurement and construction management processes.
• Managing and mentoring junior engineers.
• Providing support to business development teams for pursuit activities with the opportunity to lead projects that you pursue and acquire.
• Participation in internal Engineering Management and Local Business Leadership training programs with the intent of pursuing regional business leadership.  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with West Coast dams and hydropower clients.
• Master's Degree in Civil Engineering
• Familiarity with state and federal regulatory requirements for dams and hydropower clients
• Professional Engineer (P.E.) License

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering from either a recognized accredited program in their home country or the country in which the professional is practicing or equivalent experience in Engineering work.
• Minimum of 5 years related work experience.
• All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.
• Holds an active engineering registration or licensure to support engineer of record (EOR) requirements for BV projects in applicable countries, and supports where necessary.

Certifications

Holds an active engineering registration or licensure to support engineer of record (EOR) requirements for BV projects in applicable countries, and supports where necessary.

Work Environment/Physical Demands

• Hybrid or flexible work options may be offered after the first 90 days of employment based upon manager discretion, job performance and work assignments.
• Typical office environment, typical construction environment, extreme weather conditions, high noise level, safety hazards (electric currents, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to chemicals), atmospheric conditions (fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, poor ventilation).  
• Sitting, walking, talking, hearing, reading, writing, keyboarding, driving, filing, reaching, stooping, crouching, bending, standing for extended periods of time, lifting or carrying up to 40 pounds.