Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead hydrogeology and surface water hydrology projects in the mining and environmental services industry
• Lead interactions with clients, agencies and stakeholders to achieve project development goals and milestones
• Lead development and application of numerical groundwater flow and transport models in support of mine permitting, industrial development, and site remediation
• Lead development and application of surface water models involving rainfall runoff/hydrology and open channel hydraulic processes for mine-scale water management planning, including watershed-scale analysis, reservoir evaluation and design, open channels hydraulic design, and hydraulic structures, design, and analysis
• Leading teams in conducting field investigations, including well installation and hydrogeologic logging, aquifer testing, surface water discharge gauging, and geologic mapping
• Perform and/or lead quantitative analysis of hydrologic and hydrogeologic data, including probabilistic analysis and forecasting
• Develop and/or lead technical investigation plans for hydrologic characterization of groundwater systems in environments comprised of unconsolidated deposits, sedimentary rock and fractured crystalline rock
• Lead the production of technical reports and memos to support the permitting of natural resource development projects

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Geology with an emphasis in hydrogeology and/or surface water hydrology
• 7+ years of water resources engineering / hydrogeology experience in mining applications including site characterization, with some numerical analysis
• Professional Engineer (PE) or Professional Geologist (PG) licensure or ability to acquire within 6 months

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Engineering or Geology, with an emphasis in hydrogeology and/or surface water hydrology
• Experience planning and coordinating hydrogeologic and hydrologic field studies
• Experience conducting packer and multi-well aquifer testing
• Experience analyzing field investigation data
• Experience with statistical/probabilistic analysis and forecasting involving hydrogeologic and hydrologic time series data
• Experience integrating hydrogeologic and hydrologic studies and numerical analysis with feasibility studies and alternatives analysis
• Technical writing and report preparation experience
• Experience analyzing groundwater flow and transport in deep bedrock environments
• Experience managing large data sets and evaluation of data
• Experience with numerical and quantitative analysis using groundwater models such as MODFLOW and/or GOLDSIM, etc.
• Minnesota mining project management experience
• Environmental Impact Statements/Study experience
• National Environmental Policy Act experience
• Midwest mining project management experience