Dam, Hydropower, Hydraulic Structured Engineer.
Anchorage, AK
In this role, you’ll collaborate and partner with experts in dams, diversion structures, intakes, fish screens, pipelines, canals, pump stations, reservoirs, radial gates, slide gates, stop logs, bulkheads, embedded steel components, gate hoists, cranes, and other hydraulic steel structures associated with water storage and conveyance facilities.
You’ll lead multidisciplinary teams through complex, high visibility projects while strengthening and expanding relationships with key regional clients.
You’ll also play an important role in stakeholder engagement—partnering with communities, resource agencies, tribal nations, and local organizations to ensure that project solutions balance technical excellence with environmental stewardship, community priorities, and long-term regional resilience.
Your work will help shape the interface between the built and human environment, ensuring that infrastructure investments deliver meaningful benefits to the people and ecosystems they serve.
You’ll support business development efforts and may also serve as Project Engineer, Design Manager, or Client Sales Lead across a variety of programs—positioning for continued growth and long-term success.
As a Project Engineer, you’ll guide teams of engineers, planners, and technical specialists through planning and design, while partnering closely with clients to develop innovative conveyance and reservoir storage solutions that reflect community needs and regional priorities. With your experience, you will help guide our clients through challenging regulatory and permitting requirements.
Typical assignments may include the design, evaluation, and rehabilitation of radial gates, vertical lift and slide gates, stop logs, bulkheads, hoists, embedded steel components, and associated operating machinery, including structural steel design, stress analysis, load path evaluation, gear train assessments, and rehabilitation planning.
Your leadership will be instrumental in mentoring staff, shaping project strategies, and driving technical excellence. You’ll work in concert with the Northwest and California leadership teams, as well as Global Conveyance and Storage and Global Dam Communities of Practice, to pursue and deliver some of the most challenging and rewarding water projects in the U.S. and beyond.
• Experience performing structural steel design and stress analysis for hydraulic steel structures, including gates, stop logs, bulkheads, embedded steel components, lifting systems, and associated operating equipment.
• Demonstrated track record performing technical work and/or design management for complex, multidisciplinary projects.
• Proficient experience in dam, hydropower, and fisheries related engineering as a project manager or discipline lead.
• Proven ability to lead and coordinate multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong, well rounded technical design skills across contributing disciplines.
• Recognized by clients as a trusted partner with strong working knowledge of hydraulics and reservoir facility design and planning.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline such as Mechanical or Structural Engineering.
• Strong technical and project background in large water impoundment and diversion design, monitoring, and rehabilitation.
• Professional Engineering license in WA, OR, or ID (or ability to obtain within 6 months).
• Established relationships with regional clients and consulting partners in the Northwest.
• Familiarity with FERC licensing and other regulatory requirements.
• Experience engaging stakeholders and navigating community, environmental, and regulatory considerations.
• A passion for supporting market growth through client engagement and mentoring emerging talent.
• Experience performing structural steel design and stress analysis for hydraulic steel structures, including gates, stop logs, bulkheads, embedded steel components, lifting systems, and associated operating equipment.
• Demonstrated track record performing technical work and/or design management for complex, multidisciplinary projects
• Proficient experience in dam, hydropower, and fisheries related engineering as a project manager or discipline lead.
• Proven ability to lead and coordinate multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong, well rounded technical design skills across contributing disciplines
• Recognized by clients as a trusted partner with strong working knowledge of hydraulics and reservoir facility design and planning.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline such as Mechanical or Structural Engineering.
Ideally, You’ll Also Have:
• Strong technical and project background in large water impoundment and diversion design, monitoring, and rehabilitation
• Professional Engineering license in WA, OR, or ID (or ability to obtain within 6 months).
• Established relationships with regional clients and consulting partners in the Northwest.
• Familiarity with FERC licensing and other regulatory requirements.
• Experience engaging stakeholders and navigating community, environmental, and regulatory considerations.
• A passion for supporting market growth through client engagement and mentoring emerging talent.
Interested? Please send your Microsoft Word CV to Scott-Slater, Vish Atari, Joey Polpero Ashley Armstrong LLM, Muchen Chang, Kato Suzuki, Abi Shasori, Troy Chrysler, Stephen Brown, Enzo Guluti, Steve Maclaren, Chris Lingard, Steve Turner and Miguel Porteau.
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