Engineer Water Resources

Jacobs is seeking an experienced Engineer in Water Resources for their Ahmedabad office. The role involves planning and designing water supply schemes, conducting hydraulic modeling using WaterGEMS, and collaborating with project teams. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree in engineering, 5-8 years of experience in water projects, and familiarity with tools like ArcGIS and AutoCAD. Jacobs offers a hybrid working policy, allowing remote work alongside office presence.
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Your impact

As an experienced Engineer, the candidate will be responsible for, but not limited to, the planning and design of water supply scheme, costing, coordination and specifications. Reporting to the Discipline Team Lead/ Lead Engineer, the candidate shall be responsible for
• Work collaboration with other project team members;
• Have respect for deadlines and achieve targeted results;
• Analyze data and bridge gaps
• Hydraulic modelling using WaterGEMS
• Hands on experience on ArcGIS/ArcGIS Pro and AutoCAD
• Experience in developing utility corridors/ rainbow drawings
• Experience in clash analysis and resolution using Navisworks
• Experience on SewerGEMS, Infoworks, Civil3D would be an added advantage
• Develop clean water models to investigate constraints and generate solutions
• Master planning of water infrastructure for medium to large cities
• Pressure zoning (PMA / DMA/ DMZ)
• Options evaluation
• Cost Estimation
• Capital investment plan and Implementation Plan
• Prepare presentations and reports
• Undertaking project tasks and engineering design at various stages in the project life cycle, while ensuring technical excellence and best practice to specification
• Provide input to Designers / Draftsmen for preparation of drawings, review/check the drawings and guide the designers/draftsmen

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

Here's what you'll need

The Engineer-Water shall have master planning and hydraulic engineering and design experience on water projects. He shall be a water sector practitioner with good experience in the core subject, having a level of expertise and experience commensurate with the position.

The candidate must have a minimum of Bachelor of Engineering degree from recognized university, Master’s in environmental/Water Resource Engineering would be an added advantage and must have 5 - 8 years’ experience in water/wastewater projects with at least 2 - 4 years in hydraulic modeling on WaterGEMS platform.

The candidate shall be performing hydraulic analysis and calculations for medium to large sized cities, evaluate capacity of existing system, develop water supply strategy for future demand, optioneering and multi-criteria analysis to select most suitable water supply strategy, SWOT analysis of selected option and collate the outcome in a well-structured report.

The candidates having experience in planning of utility corridors, pipeline routing, clash checking using Navisworks and clash resolution for detailed design projects will have an advantage.

The candidate must be able to integrate well with a large multi-cultural and high performing team and have the flexibility to meet the challenging demands of the project which include quality standards, bridging data gaps, timelines, amongst others.