Restoration Engineer - Restoration Design Group : Job Details

Company Overview: Restoration Design Group is an interdisciplinary engineering and landscape architecture firm focused on stream and wetland restoration along with the development of public parks, open spaces, and trail networks. Our clients are primarily public agencies and open space districts around the San Francisco Bay Area although our portfolio extends from Los Angeles to southern Oregon.

RDG's design work typically integrates environmental restoration with public access as well as projects focused on specific resource goals such as salmonid passage and habitat restoration. We are most frequently the project prime, and our role includes project development, collaboration with an array of scientist and engineers, facilitation with stakeholder groups, development of interpretive programs, preparation of construction documents, regulatory compliance, and project monitoring.

Our mission as a firm is to create places that allow for people to play, observe, retreat, relax, and reconnect with the natural world within a landscape that provides ecological services even in the urban context.

RECENT EXAMPLE PROJECTS

The restoration engineer will collaborate on projects similar to these recent projects:

• Backfield Floodplain Restoration, Butano Creek
• Horse Trough Springs Floodplain Restoration, Klamath River
• Brook Road Fish Barrier Removal, Wildcat Creek

KEY UPCOMING PROJECTS

• 600-acre Delta ranch conversion to emergent wetlands, along with dune and riparian restoration, project will include the development of hydraulic models to inform extensive re-gradings and creation of habitat cells. The project will include the repurposing of ranch housing and other infrastructure for public access and education.
• Channel restoration and riparian habitat restoration downstream of an existing dam
• Coastal stream channel restoration and flood risk reduction

Additional information about RDG can be found on our website: www.RestorationDesignGroup.com.

Job Summary/Objective: RDG's Restoration Engineer will serve as a project manager and lead the design development process with EIT and landscape architect support staff for the creation of construction documents and specifications. This role involves managing project teams, developing restoration designs, and ensuring compliance with environmental regulations. The position offers a high degree of autonomy but is supported by a collaborative team of professionals with expertise in fluvial geomorphology, native plants, aquatic and terrestrial ecology, regulatory compliance, fine art/graphics, hydraulics, and engineering. You will also be responsible for client communication, budget management, and mentoring junior staff. Expertise in HEC-RAS modeling, geomorphology, and habitat restoration techniques is required. Interest and experience in traditional civil engineering such as stormwater design and site grading is a plus.

We are seeking a licensed P.E. (California) with 5+ years' relevant professional experience in engineering. This position is a partnership track and includes extensive continuing education opportunities.

Responsibilities: This position will support RDG's efforts to bring projects from conceptual design to construction documentation, construction, and post-project monitoring. This includes project management, construction contract administration, client management, drafting memos, reports, and other documents, field work in and along creeks, drafting construction documents, and conducting site assessments in the field.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• 5+ years' experience in engineering, creek restoration, or other related fields

• Experience managing tasks and projects on a budget

• Experience working directly with clients to identify their needs and present design results

• Experience in creek/habitat restoration ecology / geomorphology

• Adept at learning complex software packages with capacity to adapt to new technologies

• Expertise in AutoCAD, Civil3D, and HEC-RAS

• Organization and management skills to track multiple project tasks and schedules

• Ability to work independently and solve problems through research and other means

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Ability and desire to work collaboratively with a team

• Willingness and ability to conduct geomorphic assessments and monitoring outdoors and work in rugged conditions

California engineering license required.