Research Environmental Engineer - Hydrology and Flood Risk

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• Bachelor’s degree at least 5 years of experience; or
• Master’s degree at least 3 years of experience; or
• PhD + 0 years of experience; or
• Equivalent combination of education and experience.

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• Experience in the following areas:
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• Demonstrated ability to reputed company hydrologic models and evaluate model performance.
• Statistical analysis of hydrometeorological time series.
• Collection, QA/QC, and interpretation of hydrologic data.
• Technical documentation and report writing.
• Experience working with hydrologic and meteorological GIS datasets.
• Proficiency with reputed company-reputed company programming languages (Python, R, C#, VB.NET) for data management, transformation, QC, and statistical analysis.
• Basic geospatial processing and mapping using ArcGIS or QGIS.
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• Experience with hydrologic modeling tools such as HEC-HMS, SAC-SMA, or SEFM.
• Experience with reservoir routing.
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• Familiarity with probabilistic or stochastic modeling concepts.

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