Habitat Restoration Engineer

Final Filing Date:  July 25, 2025

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Job Description and Duties

WHY CHOOSE US:

Do you love engineering, have a passion for the environment and want to be part of engineering solutions to complex environmental problems? Want to work on projects that restore native fish habitats and design fish passage projects to enhance and complement the Sacramento Delta, streams, and river ecosystems? Do you enjoy collaborating with a diverse group of professionals and technical specialists, bridging typically siloed disciplines to develop and construct projects? Are you motivated, organized, and effective at leading tasks? Then joining the Engineering, Planning, and Implementation Unit of Riverine Habitat Restoration Section as a Water Resources Engineer is the role for you!

DUTIES:

This Water Resources Engineer position will work under the direction of the Senior Water Resources Engineer. This position works within the unit and larger multidisciplinary section to provide project planning, project management, civil engineering design, construction oversight, and operations and maintenance engineering support for a wide variety of restoration type infrastructure projects.

This position has the unique position of being involved in projects from initial planning to design development, through construction, commissioning and initial operations, participating in scientific studies, reviewing and revising adaptive management planning for optimal success of our target species of salmon and sturgeon.

The position will be heavily involved with project management responsibilities: coordinating within the Division, leading external consultant task orders, and collaborating with other engineers across the department on tasks for new and ongoing investigations in hydraulic and hydrologic modeling, groundwater investigations, surface water monitoring, field surveys, operational and scenario planning, impact analysis for restoration projects both at the local and regional scale.

Engineering work is centered around a variety of restoration projects including hydraulic structures, floodplains, channels, road crossings, weirs, dams, and gates. Engineers collaborate with others in the department to develop conceptual design and alternatives analyses, answer engineering questions, design development and review, analysis of existing projects and designs, construction design support, hydraulic and hydrologic modeling, and coordination of engineering related items for operations and maintenance for a variety of restoration projects including hydraulic structures, floodplains, channels, road crossings, weirs, dams, and gates.

You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement.

Position Details

Job Code #:  JC-479027

Working Title :  Habitat Restoration Engineer

Classification:  ENGINEER, WATER RESOURCES

Salary:  $6,299.00 - $11,798.00 per month

New to State candidates will be hired into the minimum salary of the classification or minimum of alternate range when applicable.

# of Positions:  1

Work Location:  West Sacramento

Telework:  Hybrid

Job Type:  Permanent, Full Time

Contact Information:
Rikki Metcalf
(916) 701-7663
DISE_HR@water.ca.gov

For more information including detailed job duties, minimum qualifications, and how to apply, please go to:  https://calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Jobs/JobPosting.aspx?JobControlId=479027.

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