Shape practical, science-based solutions to complex water resource, water quality, and climate resilience challenges.
ERM is seeking an energetic, experienced Managing Technical Consultant, Scientist, Water Resource / Water Quality to join our Water Resources, Climate Change & Modeling Group. In this role, you will have a meaningful impact by applying advanced modeling, analytical, and consulting expertise to help clients address complex water resource management, environmental compliance, permitting, climate change, sustainability, and business continuity challenges.
Why This Role Matters?
ERM’s Water Resources, Climate Change & Modeling Group helps clients address complex business-related compliance challenges, including building business resilience in a climate-changed world. We develop and apply multi-dimensional hydrological, hydrodynamic, flood, transport, and fate models to watersheds, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries, and coastal waterbodies to help clients meet their compliance and permitting objectives, sustainability goals, and business continuity needs.
As a Managing Consultant, you will contribute your technical skills and leadership to support the growth of ERM’s business and client base while connecting with ERM’s global water resources technical team to share multidisciplinary resources and industry best practices. This is an excellent opportunity to advance your career with a global environmental leader.
What Your Impact Is:
You will contribute to multidisciplinary projects that help clients understand, manage, and mitigate complex water-related risks. Your work will combine hydrologic, hydraulic, hydrodynamic, and water quality modeling with geospatial analytics and quantitative impact assessment, while supporting high-quality project delivery and major client engagements.
What You'll Bring:
Required
M.S. in Environmental or Civil Engineering. Exceptional candidates with a bachelor’s degree will be considered. Educational background includes aquatic chemistry, fluid mechanics, statistics, and water resources, or equivalent experience.
4–6 years of relevant experience.
Working knowledge of programming environments such as FORTRAN, Visual Basic, C++, MATLAB, and/or R.
Experience with hydraulic models, including flood modeling tools such as Flo2D, FloodModeller, HEC-RAS, or similar.
Experience with other existing watershed or water quality models, such as GEMSS, SWAT, CE-QUAL-W2, EPA-SWMM, and WMS.
Strong aptitude for and interest in problem solving and analytical thinking, with a high degree of organization and attention to detail.
Solid English written and verbal communication skills.
Experience writing detailed technical reports.
This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.
Preferred
8+ years of experience.
Experience contributing to multidisciplinary water resource and water quality projects.
Experience applying geospatial data analytics and tools such as ArcGIS.
Experience supporting complex environmental compliance, permitting, climate change, or quantitative impact assessment projects.
Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with technical teams across disciplines.
Key Responsibilities:
Be part of multidisciplinary teams of modelers executing watershed- and basin-wide studies in support of water resource management.
Assist in the application of hydraulic and hydrologic models to natural and urban watersheds.
Assist in the application of hydrodynamic and water quality models to freshwater and marine environments.
Assist in quantitative impact assessment studies related to client operations in lacustrine, riverine, and marine environments.
Use geospatial data analytics, related software such as ArcGIS or similar, calculations, and models to address impact, regulatory, and climate change issues.
Acquire and process datasets, monitor model applications, perform supporting calculations, and document results.
Perform project management within scope, schedule, and budget expectations…