Job Description and Duties

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Are you looking to make a meaningful contribution towards the protection of California’s public trust resources? Do you like working with hydraulic models? Are you interested in exploring correlations between streamflow and ecology? If so, then this may be the position for you!

The State Water Resources Control Board’s Division of Water Rights has an opening for two Water Resource Control Engineers in its Instream Flows Section. The positions are located at 1001 I Street, 14th Floor, Sacramento, right in the heart of downtown next to light rail stations and other public transportation.

Under direction of the Instream Flow Unit Supervisor, the Water Resource Control Engineer (WRCE) will support the Instream Flows Section (Section) in the Division of Water Rights by developing and implementing instream flow objectives for priority watersheds throughout California. The incumbent will review hydrologic and stream morphology studies, models, and data, collect and assess water rights data, develop flow criteria for consideration in the flow objective setting process, oversee grants and contracts, develop technical and plain project materials, and present to diverse audiences. The work of this Section will focus on high-priority instream flow efforts underway (e.g., Scott River, Shasta River, Ventura River) and expand to include additional efforts in other areas of the state. This work is of great importance to the State Water Board and is often controversial. The incumbent must be willing to travel occasionally for fieldwork and public engagement.

Additional information:

Candidates must possess essential personal qualifications including integrity, initiative, dependability, good judgment, the ability to work cooperatively with others, and the ability to perform the assigned duties of the class.

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