Northern Water is seeking a Senior Water Quality Engineer to provide a leadership role for the water quality department through technical expertise. This person should be capable of identifying, assessing, and resolving complex water quality issues associated with Northern Water’s projects. Work assignments will primarily include leading advanced water quality modeling and analysis of lentic and lotic environments. Additional responsibilities include designing, performing, and reporting on special studies, watershed and mechanistic modeling, statistical and other data analysis. This position is also responsible for overseeing, directing, and mentoring other team members.

This position identifies, assesses, and resolves complex water quality issues associated with Northern Water’s projects. Work assignments will primarily include leading advanced water quality modeling and analysis of lentic and lotic environments. 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Acts as the subject matter expert on water quality issues;
• Designs and performs special studies, analyzes complex datasets and reports findings of water quality investigations;
• Reviews and designs monitoring programs;
• Develops scopes of work and proposals;
• Prepares detailed technical reports and analyses;
• Reviews work from others (staff, consultants and partner agencies);
• Performs applied watershed and mechanistic water quality modeling including setting up models for scenario simulations, input preparation, processing of model outputs, model validation, documentation of results and performing model upgrades as needed;
• Performs statistical and other data analyses;
• Prepares graphical and tabular data summaries;
• Develops new tools and methods to enhance the reporting and assessment capabilities of the Water Quality Department;
• Represents Northern Water at water quality meetings;
• Presents findings and water quality information to a variety of audiences (staff, Board, consultants, constituents and partner agencies);
• Project and/or Task Lead: provides oversight, direction, and review for the work of others;
• Provide a leadership role for the water quality department through technical expertise in the area of water quality;
• Mentors other team members;
• Performs other duties as assigned.