Senior Fish Passage Engineer

Join Our Facet Team
Facet is a fast-growing energetic civil and structural engineering and environmental consulting firm with six offices in Washington. We are engineers, scientists, arborists, landscape architects, planners, and more, with decades of experience working throughout the PNW and the nation.
Job Description
The Fish Passage Engineer role is part of a multidisciplinary team that collaborates directly with natural resource scientists, planners, landscape architects, and civil and structural engineers. The successful candidate will lead engineering design tasks in the procurement of, planning, permitting, and design of fish passage and related habitat projects throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Experience in the early project identification, discussion with project proponents and development of proposals is desired.
Primary Responsibilities

• Identify project leads and help the marketing team in project identification and procurement. Lead, develop and implement the plans and specifications for fish passage and related habitat projects. Responsible for design, construction, and maintenance support for hydraulics and hydrology.
• Collaborate with the permitting team to satisfy agency requirements for in-water projects.
• Lead all project management tasks such as developing budgets and scopes, client billings, field report reviews, contract reviews, and proposal development.
• Direct and guide work of CAD staff in the development of bid and construction drawings.
• Provide engineering support during construction, including review of submittals, response to RFIs, and review and development of contract modifications.
• Interact with clients, develop scopes of work and fee proposals, and manage projects.
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering. Masters preferred.
• 10 years design experience procuring and managing civil design projects related to fish passage and habitat projects.
• Professional Engineer (PE) required.
• Project Engineering and Project Management experience required.
• Experience with planning, organizing, and conducting hydraulic and hydrologic modeling with application to fish passage and habitat restoration.
• Experience with State and Federal fish and wildlife permitting agency personnel and program managers, including local Tribes.
• Able to work independently and with a project team to completion of tasks.
  

Benefits

• Competitive salary with opportunities for performance-based bonuses
• Generous Paid Time Off (vacation and sick)
• 7 fixed holidays and 2 floating holidays
• Fully paid employee medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Employer paid for dependents’ medical, dental and vision paid at 60%
• Choice of a traditional copay plan or High-Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) with a Health Savings account (HSA)
• Facet fully funds HSAs to the IRS maximum ($4300 for individuals and $8550 for families) for employees selecting the HDHP with HSA
• $300 annual fitness benefit
• $100,000 employer paid life insurance
• Employer paid for long-term and short-term disability
• Voluntary plans include additional group life, accident, hospitalization, and serious illness
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching 4.5%