Hydraulics Engineer-In-Training - Transportation Market

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Our transportation and utility services professionals offer practical, forward-thinking expertise in a wide range of practice areas, including active transportation, bridge design, roadway design and traffic engineering, intelligent transportation systems, utility and broadband services, grant writing, program management and so much more! From interstates and intersections to bridges and bike paths, we invite you to join us in designing transportation systems that connect us to the people and places we care about most.

Responsibilities:

• The individual will provide technical support to Mississippi’s Transportation Group as well as across Gresham Smith’s Transportation Market to assist in the performance of roadway and bridge hydraulic design services for a variety of municipal and state clients.
• The individual will complete roadway hydraulic design which could include hydrology, channels, culverts, energy dissipators, MS4, storm drainage systems and storage facilities for drainage areas of less than 1000 acres.
• For drainage areas of greater than 1000 acres, the individual will evaluate bridge design alternatives considering stream stability, backwater, flow distribution, stream velocities, scour potential, flood hazards, tidal dynamics and consistency with established National Flood Insurance Program criteria.
• Coordinate hydraulic efforts with the assigned roadway design and/or structures team(s) to ensure completeness and accuracy of the overall project design effort.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental or Civil Engineering, interest in Hydrology and Hydraulics
• Zero to 4 years of bridge and roadway hydraulic design experience
• Experience with drainage design applications such as HY-8 Culvert Hydraulic Analysis Program, FHWA Hydraulic Toolbox, HEC-RAS, USGS StreamStats, and HEC-HMS would be desirable.
• Microstation experience would be desirable.

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