Supervising Professional Engineer

Supervising Professional Engineer 

Bureau of Water Supply Planning 

As a Supervising Professional Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in protecting the regions springs, lakes, rivers, and wetlands. As a member of the Bureau of Water Supply Planning, you will be a leader in protecting water resources while ensuring a sustainable water supply for growth in the region. Members of the Bureau work toward meeting these goals in a collaborative and productive atmosphere. You will lead a team of scientists, engineers, and hydrologists to evaluate the potential impacts on these water resources and their related ecosystems that may result from groundwater and surface water withdrawals. Working with your team and the region’s stakeholders, you will develop solutions to address any impacts, while ensuring that future water supply needs are met and that our natural resources are protected. The solutions you develop include the identification of water conservation measures that could be implemented or identifying projects to recharge the aquifer and/or quantifying alternative sources of water to meet the current and future water use demands.  

Job duties include: 

• Supervise your team to develop and use cutting edge approaches to assess impacts. Examples of this work include reviewing the results from and/or using surface and groundwater models, statistical analysis, and/or geospatial analysis to characterize the relationship between water withdrawals and their potential impact to the ecosystems, surrounding surface waters, wetlands, or springs. 
• Develop and recommend solutions, in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, to address impacts to water resources and their related ecosystems through implementation of local and regional projects such as water conservation, identifying alternative water supply sources and groundwater recharge, surface water capture and storage or other options to meet demands, while protecting the resource. Your recommendations will serve as a key component to support the statutory requirements for development of Regional Water Supply Plans and Minimum Flows and Minimum Levels (MFLs) Prevention and Recovery strategies.
• You will serve as an agency subject matter expert on matters of resource assessment, mitigation approaches, strategy development and project implementation.

Skilled In: 

The use of personal computers; ArcGIS, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Projects, etc.), E- regulatory system, modeling and statistical/graphical software, Adobe, effective oral and written communication including reviewing technical reports; leading, coaching and developing staff. 

Minimum Qualifications: 

A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in environmental, civil, hydraulic, agricultural or water resource engineering, registration with the State of Florida as a Professional Engineer, and at least one year of subsequent experience directly related to water and wastewater engineering design, permitting, project management, cost estimating, and project scheduling. Knowledge of water and wastewater treatment technologies, water pumping and transmission, system requirements, and federal and state environmental regulations. Experience must include one year of leading a project team, coordinating activities of a workgroup, or serving as a team leader. 

Applicants with 5 or more years of experience in water and or wastewater utility management including: operations and maintenance, system planning (including development of alternative water supplies/recharge projects), regulatory compliance, facility design and permitting, and budget preparation and review are preferred. 

Physical Requirements/Working Environment: 

Mostly in an office environment, sitting at a desk and operating a personal computer to produce work products with some travel to meetings and field visits as required. Flexible schedule with telework can be requested after completion of the onboarding period.