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🕒 May 22

🌵 Arizona, Colorado, +4 more states – Remote

🌵 Arizona – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🦬 Montana – Remote 🌶️ New Mexico – Remote ⛷️ Utah – Remote 🦬 Wyoming – Remote

💵 $90k - $120k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Trout Unlimited

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1959

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

📚 Education

Non-profit • Social Impact • Education

Trout Unlimited is a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of freshwater streams, rivers, and watersheds, particularly those that support wild and native trout and salmon. The organization encourages community involvement and offers membership opportunities, allowing individuals to contribute to conservation efforts through donations, volunteer work, and advocacy. Trout Unlimited undertakes various projects and initiatives aimed at protecting, restoring, and reconnecting critical water systems across the United States. It seeks to build coalitions and pass legislation to safeguard aquatic environments for future generations, providing educational programs and resources to promote its mission.

📋 Description

• Assist TU program and project managers with planning and managing engineering work completed by outside consultants, including crafting scopes, budgets, and schedules, reviewing project designs/deliverables, and providing construction oversight. • Collaborate with existing engineers and national restoration center staff to build a sustainable internal engineering services division within the organization that integrates with existing TU program and project managers. • Conduct stream geomorphic surveys, stream habitat assessments, aquatic passage assessments, and topographic surveys using total station and/or GPS equipment. • Complete analytical assessments of aquatic habitats, and design calculations and modeling of proposed project conditions using a variety of tools and software according to project need, such as Civil 3D, ArcGIS, HEC-RAS, Rivermorph, and Microsoft Office Suite. • Prepare construction-level designs for stream restoration and conservation projects, including cost estimates, specifications, and drawing sets in Civil 3D. • Stamp, and serve as the Engineer of Record for project designs as appropriate. • Work with TU internal and external partners to plan and complete permitting, construction oversight, and monitoring activities. • Travel to local and regional project sites for survey, construction, and meetings as required. • Work collaboratively with other TU staff (program and project managers, design team, etc.), landowners, funders, contractors, and other project partners. • This position is a non-supervisory position and this is not an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities.

🎯 Requirements

• Professional Engineering (PE) licensure, or ability to promptly gain licensure, in Colorado and other nearby states as deemed appropriate over time. • Advanced education and continuing professional development in hydraulic engineering, civil engineering, environmental engineering or biological systems engineering with at least 10 years of relevant experience. • M.S. preferred, B.S. required. • Extensive experience with road and culvert replacement construction standards and specifications, including stream simulation methodology for aquatic organism passage and hydrology and hydraulic analysis and modeling. • Advanced knowledge of sediment transport principles and general landform processes related to riverine systems. • Expertise and experience with Stage 0 or low-tech process-based restoration, natural channel design, and large wood addition techniques. • Experience in construction management of stream restoration or other heavy civil water resources projects. • Experience with pre/post fire watershed restoration projects, such as debris or sediment modeling and implementation of sediment reduction projects. • Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences. • Self-motivated and energetic, with excellent time-management and organizational skills, and ability to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously. • Ability and willingness to travel and work longer hours in variable weather conditions. • Valid driver’s license required. • Willingness to assist in other tasks as necessary to advance TU’s conservation mission, such as grant writing, reporting, engagement events, advocacy, and volunteer coordination. • Interest in developing and expanding TU’s engineering and design team, including review of designs by others and mentoring of staff. • Passion for protecting and restoring coldwater rivers and their watersheds. • Past experience writing grants or fundraising for large-scale projects and programs a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• generous benefits package • family-friendly atmosphere