City of Austin – Austin Water
City of Austin – Austin Water
Position overview
The Water Resources Team in the Systems Planning Division is responsible for managing the City’s water rights and water supply contracts, performing water supply analyses, leading the development and facilitating implementation of long range water resource plans (including Water Forward, Austin’s 100 year Integrated Water Resource Plan), participating in the regional water supply planning process, supporting the City’s partnership with the LCRA, and participating in a number of related efforts including climate resiliency initiatives, innovative water strategies, social equity and affordability efforts, and environmental stewardship initiatives.
Working as a part of the Water Resources Team, this position coordinates with the Systems Planning Water Distribution and Wastewater Collection Infrastructure Planning Teams to develop planning deliverables like population and employment projections, future water and wastewater service areas, and future demand and flow forecasts. This position develops geospatially disaggregated data used for engineering analyses and uses engineering judgement to use this information to incorporate this information into water resources and water and wastewater infrastructure planning processes. This position coordinates with utility, City, and regional planning processes and provides technical advice, guidance, and support to various related initiatives including Imagine Austin comprehensive planning and land development code revisions, neighborhood planning, and jurisdictional mapping and coordination.
Minimum Qualifications
Graduate Engineer A
Education and/or Equivalent Experience:
Graduation with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in Engineering or in a field related to the job.
Licenses and Certifications Required:
None.
Graduate Engineer B
Education and/or Equivalent Experience:
Graduation with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in Engineering or in a related field, plus two (2) years of experience in engineering.
Licenses and Certifications Required:
Texas: Engineer – In Training Certification.
Engineer A
Education and/or Equivalent Experience:
Graduation with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in Engineering or in a field related to the job, plus four (4) years of engineering experience acquired before and/or after licensing as a professional engineer.
Licenses and Certifications Required:
Licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) in the State of Texas; or if currently licensed in another state, must have the ability to obtain a Texas P.E. license within six (6) months of employment.
Preferred Qualifications
Preferred Experience:
Experience using data and creating projections related to land use, development, population, employment, water demand, and/or wastewater flow.
Experience with quantitative data collection, cleaning, and analysis methods and tools.
Experience using ArcGIS for to create, edit, analyze, and visualize geospatial data.
Experience with water resources and water and wastewater infrastructure planning in the context of climate change adaptation, community resilience, racial equity, and environmental justice.
Experience building collaborative relationships with diverse individuals, groups, and work units for successful project or program implementation.
Strong ability to understand and communicate complex technical information to a diverse audience using a variety of methods including written reports, print and web content, formal and informal oral communication, and information visualization.
Ability to travel to more than one work location.
Pay Range
This position will be filled at one of the following levels depending upon candidate qualifications:
Graduate Engineer A: $31.65 to $39.56 per hour
Graduate Engineer B: $32.89 to $41.93 per hour
Engineer A: $34.86 to $44.45 per hour
Hours
Monday-Friday: 40 hours/week between 8:00am -5:00pm, with some hybrid schedules available.
Location
625 E. 10th Street Austin, Tx 78701
Criminal Background Investigation
This position does not require a Criminal Background Investigation
