Hydrologist Job Description
Hydrologist
provides hydrological expertise on a range or studies including flood mapping studies, flood risk assessments, water cycle strategies and water framework directive investigations.
Hydrologist Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Carrying out surface water based field work and other site work
Use Flood Estimation Handbook hydrological analysis methods, including the Statistical Analysis method, ReFH and with use of the FEH CD-ROM V3 and WinFAP V3 and must have applied these to a wide range of rural and urban catchments
Be responsible for the technical quality of work carried out within the team, provide supervision of projects, review and check work and provide leading technical skills as a technical specialist with minimal guidance
Establish and maintain good working relationships with clients and colleagues and work co-operatively across functions and business units to share information and ideas
Work closely with other senior staff to enable delivery of the wider teams workload
Undertake project-based travel and site work, working away both in the UK and internationally
Display a ‘safety first’ attitude, promote positive health and safety, raise safety issues through the appropriate channels and adhere to Company health and safety policy and procedures
You will work alongside our business development team to prepare proposals and bids
Provide hydrological expertise on a range or studies including flood mapping studies, flood risk assessments, water cycle strategies and water framework directive investigations
Manage and deliver complex hydrological projects
Hydrologist Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Hydrologist
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: EIT, P.ENG
Education for Hydrologist
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the hydrologist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Collage and Master's Degree in Hydrology, Education, Management, Engineering, Chemistry, Geology, Geophysics, Water Resources, Meteorology, Science
Skills for Hydrologist
Desired skills for hydrologist include:
FEMA Public Assistance Program/Policy
Techniques described within the Flood Estimation Handbook and for calculating low flows
Associated flood and drought policies and data sources especially EU and UK
Framework Directive and relevant Water Quality legislation
Geographical Information Systems
GoldSim Monte Carlo Simulation software will be advantageous
Hydrological modeling tools
ISO14001 and Environmental Management Systems
Planning and regulatory context for flood risk management in the UK would be beneficial
Relevant standards and technical guidelines
Desired experience for hydrologist includes:
Prepare proposals/bids, including methodologies, budgets, resource plans, and contractual and commercial arrangements, under the direction of the Principal Hydrologist and/or Team Leader
Supervise, review and check work (technical outputs) completed by others
Establish and maintain good working relationships with clients and colleagues
Identify skill gaps and training needs of junior staff
Work co-operatively across functions and business units to share information and ideas
Experience of hydraulic modelling – including any of the following environments in 1D, 2D, 3D
Hydrologist Examples
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Hydrologist Job Description
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Our company is looking for a hydrologist. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for hydrologist
- Researching local, state and federal code requirements
- Travel and conduct site work, working away both in the UK and internationally
- Act in the spirit of Golder’s values
- Managing own time inputs into specific hydrological project tasks across a range of study types
- BS degree in Civil / Sanitary Engineering, preferably licensed
- MS in Civil Engineering / Water Resources (plus factor only)
- Minimum 5 years' experience in civil / sanitary engineering related to wastewater systems and treatment preferably in a consulting setting
- Technical ability in the investigation and design of wastewater systems and treatment
- Demonstrated project and team leadership performance
- To act as a technical expert in high flows hydrology and flood modelling
Qualifications for hydrologist
- Applicants must be numerate, literate and familiar with IT and software appropriate to the tasks to be undertaken, ideally including
- Customer focused with a good level of client management skills
- Degree qualified in a relevant engineering or science subject
- Completion of studies, analyses and calculations in surface water hydraulics (water flow modelling in natural rivers sizing and design of ditches, culverts and other hydraulic works)
- Direction of field investigations and hydrological monitoring and assessment (flow, rain, ) including HSE aspects, equipment selection and the organisation, analysis and presentation of data
- Previous experience in hydrology and water management surface water design, environmental impact assessments, and hydrologic/hydraulic modeling
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of hydrologist. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for hydrologist
- To participate in the development of the high flows hydrology and flood modelling capability within Wood E&I UK, including the development of innovative methods, products and services, and the training and development of junior staff
- Plan, supervise and perform hydrological studies for meteorological data, streamflow data and runoff evaluation
- Participate in project meetings for aspects related to the hydrology/ hydraulics discipline
- Participate in the preparation of service proposals
- Supervise the professional development of junior personnel within the engineering group
- Lead, manage and contribute to projects in the water forecasting discipline (hydrological and statistical modelling, forecast post-processing and evaluation, application of forecasts for water resources management)
- Contribute water forecasting science to projects in water resources assessment and prediction, integrated basin modelling, and at-scale multi-disciplinary projects
- Sustain strong scientific recognition through publication metrics, leadership in national and global hydrological science forums, and national and international reputation
- Work closely with industry customers to deliver strong research outcomes, leading to adoption and impact from new practice and/or knowledge
- A PhD qualification plus several years postdoctoral research experience, or equivalent relevant research experience in science or engineering
Qualifications for hydrologist
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Civil) with minimum 15 years of experience in which atleast 10 years of experience should be in transport infrastrucre bridge project on Gangetic Plain (at least two projects of minimum lenght 1 KM)
- Courses with an emphasis on Water Resources or Hydrology emphasis is preferred
- Appropriate course work in water resources is required
- Prefer previous internships in hydrology and hydraulics in progressive design responsibility pertaining to a variety of water resources projects
- Experience in preparing reports and studies
- Experience in preparing construction plans and specifications
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Our company is hiring for a hydrologist. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for hydrologist
- Scientific programming, data visualisation, and high performance computing experience
- Demonstrated experience in managing, using and creating large climate and hydrological datasets, and in dealing with data that cover large spatial (such as continental) and temporal (such as decadal) scales
- Experience in operational water forecasting or in transferring research to operational deployment is would be an advantage, however is not essential
- Develop new numerical approaches to simulate hyporheic zone hydrology driven biogeochemical processes
- Develop new statistical approaches to mine complex and diverse watershed datasets and identify a range of spatiotemporal patterns and trends in said datasets
- Acquire, analyze using laboratory methods, integrate and interpret hydrological, geochemical and biological watershed measurements
- Using measurements and developed models, explore how water resources associated with watershed and/or their subsystems respond to environmental change, potentially including droughts, extreme precipitation events, and fires
- Engage as a member of a large, multidisciplinary research team that includes geochemists, hydrologists, geophysicists and computational scientists
- Communicate research results via presentations at scientific conferences
- Identify new research directions
Qualifications for hydrologist
- Experience with HEC-RAS and HEC-HMS is preferred
- Experience in use and applications of advanced hydrologic and hydraulic modeling software such as InfoWorks suite for development of both 1D and 2D flow models
- Any experience with USACE and other federal entities would be a plus
- Experience specifically with large channel modeling, analysis, and plan production a plus
- Personally committed to succeeding on each project and willing to put in extra effort needed to make it successful under difficult time constraints
- Experience with programming (ex
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a hydrologist. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for hydrologist
- Lead projects and project tasks, including technical scope, budget, staffing and interactions with funding agency
- Conduct lab, field and office work under established safety guidelines
- Supervise and mentor technical staff
- Develop patents and perform technology transfer
- Scientific community, Laboratory and/or DOE service
- BS degree in Civil, preferably licensed
- MS in Water Resources(plus factor only)
- Minimum 8 years experience in groundwater conceptualization and modelling, impact assessments and water resource evaluations
- Experience in the preparation of budgets, technical submissions and reports
- Working knowledge of HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, TUFLOW and / or MIKE systems
Qualifications for hydrologist
- A general understanding / some experience of standard hydrological modelling approaches and hydraulic design and modelling
- Proficient in hydrological analysis including FEH and ReFH
- Water management and flood routing studies
- Environmental Professional Certifications or P.E
- Must have the ability to stand for 4 to 8 hours on uneven rocky surfaces
- Must have the ability to be seated for up to 4 hours to operate equipment or vehicles or computer
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a hydrologist. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for hydrologist
- Communication of technical concepts, evaluation results, plans, reports, via oral presentations
- Applies expertise to the most complex problems
- Maximize customer awareness of our products and services through regular customer contact and collaboration
- Act as a champion for customers with internal teams that include product managers who direct new product development
- Attend relevant exhibitions, seminars, meetings and training courses to maintain a high level of expertise and recognition by industry peers
- Present at professional society and industry-relevant conferences and meetings
- Provide feedback for product line improvement and new product ideas
- Extensive application based product testing and feedback to engineering
- Generate and assist with content to support sales and marketing activities – demonstration videos, white papers and/or peer-reviewed publications, application and technical notes, product literature such as specification sheets and brochures
- Keep sales, marketing and other company personnel informed about competitive activity and potential new business opportunities
Qualifications for hydrologist
- Must have the ability to climb on and off equipment and ladders
- High degree of technical competence and academic knowledge in hydrology and hydraulics
- Well-developed teambuilding and influencing skills
- Proficiency in GIS software
- Experience of fluvial modelling
- Experience in consultancy