Foth Infrastructure & Environment, LLC is currently seeking a team-focused, innovative, and results-oriented Project Manager focused on Water Resources andHydrogeology projects who has a desire to contribute to our clients’ success and is looking for new learning experiences and opportunities for career growth. This position will be working out of our Minneapolis, MN, Duluth, MN Green Bay, WI, Madison, WI, Milwaukee, WI, or Chicago, IL office.
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