TWDB - 26-119 Water Supply Planning Technical Lead (Engineer VI/Project Manager V) The Water Supply Planning Division is seeking a motivated, curious, and result-oriented individual to join the Division and play a key role in Texas's water supply planning process. The position will serve as the Water Supply Planning Division Technical Lead, providing technical leadership in support of the cyclical regional and state water supply planning programs. The position will also be a lead role in developing and implementing the early-stage conveyance and coordination requirements of Senate Bill 7 of the 89th Legislature including establishing, convening, and facilitating advisory technical groups to advance early-stage collaboration among key entities and integrating coordination efforts into the state's well-established water supply planning processes. The ideal candidate brings experience and engineering knowledge of water supply planning at the local, regional, and state levels, project development, hydrologic modeling; demand forecasting, risk assessment, and engineering cost estimation. The candidate is proficient in data management (including GIS), demonstrates strong judgment, communication, and decision-making skills, and can critically assess the credibility of water supply plans and projects. Experience managing technical contracts and overseeing contractors, along with a strong understanding of Texas water resources, is preferred. Performs highly advanced and/or managerial (senior-level) engineering, project management, and oversight work. Work involves providing technical support, engineering expertise, and technical advisement regarding water supply planning including developing long-range water demand projections to supporting efforts to promote large scale capacity and conveyance projects. The position represents TWDB externally at assigned meetings and engagements, serves as an information source technical expert for Division team members, agency management and leadership, and external stakeholders including the Texas Legislature. The position may train TWDB staff on related engineering and technical matters. Works under minimal supervision, with extensive latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment. Reports to the Senior Advisor of the Water Supply Planning Division. Essential job functions include serving as an advisor and technical expert regarding engineering and technical matters related to the Division including the regional and state water planning program areas, participating in and contributing to the development, writing, review, and communication of the state water plan, establishing, convening, and facilitating advisory technical groups to promote early-stage collaboration among regional and major water providers and river authorities, identifying opportunities to develop excess water supply capacity and advance conveyance initiatives that benefit the state, coordinating all stakeholders, developing meeting strategies and materials, facilitating technical discussions, and managing follow-up actions, implementing and integrating the outcomes associated with the conveyance coordination effort into the regional and state water planning processes, assessing certain technical aspects of project funding applications related to various financial assistance programs, supporting the development, implementation, and enhancement of innovative approaches, tools, and methodologies for the water planning program and State Water Plan, including assessing water supply risk and improving long-term infrastructure planning under uncertainty, producing, reviewing, editing, summarizing, and/or commenting on Divisional draft products, agency documents, external reports, and a variety of other written technical and non-technical materials, interacting with and supporting a variety of stakeholders including regional water planning groups and their technical consultants, identifying technical needs, data gaps, and developing relevant engineering recommendations and guidance to support TWDB's water supply planning program and agency leadership, performing a variety of technical reviews and updates and, as necessary, overseeing applicable reviews conducted by other reviewers, performing a variety of reviews of contract documents, correspondence, Board items, informational materials, analyses, and data-intensive and technical materials in support of the Division, producing, advising on, overseeing, reviewing, and/or project-managing special studies and legislatively mandated reports and other tasks as assigned including work related to updating the state water planning uniform costing model and other division work products, supporting the review and development of existing and new planning methodologies including related to population and water demand projections and risk and vulnerability assessments, evaluating program needs and performing research regarding technical matters and developing processes and procedures to support meeting those needs for the Division, coordinating across agency offices on water supply related initiatives including regarding scientific efforts and other matters including related to climate and uncertainty, developing and managing grant, professional, and research contracts including developing scopes of work and budgets, negotiating contracts, and overseeing the contract performance, supporting the agency by advising on the development of socioeconomic impact analyses produced on behalf of regional water planning groups, organizing, developing, and running technical workshops/webinars in support of the regional water planning program, supporting technical reviews, program requirements, and coordination related to the agency funding programs, serving as project manager, as needed to monitor internal project schedules, budgets, and deliverables of internal initiatives, assisting the Director and Senior Advisor in identifying process improvements and creating tools to support the program, coordinating with various federal and state agencies as appropriate, promoting an environment that encourages collaboration, exchanges of ideas, teamwork, accountability, professional development, and improvement in performance, conducting outreach efforts, including public speaking, presenting to the agency Board or Legislature, staying informed of changes and trends in water supply planning and water resources management, including pertinent laws, regulations, guidelines, policies, and standards and appropriately applying them as needed, maintaining confidential and sensitive information, ensuring individual and team files (electronic and hard versions) are appropriately maintained and timely disposed of in accordance with the agency's records retention procedures and schedule, maintaining required certifications and licenses and meeting the continuing education needs and requirements of the position to include, attending mandatory training courses, may be required to operate a state or personal vehicle for business purposes, and performing other duties as assigned. Minimum qualifications include graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or a related field, professional experience, and a license. Preferred qualifications include a graduate degree, experience managing projects/programs, experience developing and managing professional services contracts, knowledge of water rights, water supplies, water providers, and water resource issues in Texas, experience performing hydrologic modeling, experience developing water supply and asset management plans for wholesale and retail water supply utilities, experience in the development and construction of water supply projects, experience in Texas' regional water planning process, familiarity with public finance, socioeconomics, and the development of water demand projections, and a Professional Geoscientist License. Knowledge, skills, and abilities include knowledge of local, state, and federal laws and regulations relevant to Water Supply Planning Division, knowledge of the principles and practices of public administration, knowledge of engineering principles, techniques, and procedures, skills in using Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel, and Access, skills in use of internet, email, word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database software, skills in the use of logic to assess options and make decisions based on a variety of factors and risks, skills in anticipating and engaging with complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions, skills in comprehending and concisely summarizing technical material, skills with ESRI ArcGIS software and spatial analysis, skills in evaluating, analyzing, and managing large amounts of data, ability to maintain the security or integrity of critical infrastructure within Texas, ability to meet agency in-office requirements, ability to adhere to work schedules, follow procedures with respect to leave and submit accurate timesheets by prescribed deadlines, ability to make mature, objective decisions and identify areas of potential problems, ability to perform effectively and willingly when changes occur in scope and nature of the work and work environment, ability to perform routine and non-routine work assignments accurately and on-time with little or no supervision, ability to perform assigned duties and improve work habits and/or output, ability to complete assigned work, on time, neatly and with infrequent errors, ability to interpret policies, procedures, and regulations, ability to provide prompt, courteous and accurate assistance and clear and concise communication to internal and external stakeholders both verbally and in writing, ability to work and cooperate with others in a team environment, ability to manage multiple tasks, ability to stand/sit/move to perform activities such as retrieve/replace files in a large file system for boxes up to 30 lbs, ability and willingness to travel 25% of the time, primarily within the State of Texas, ability to operate a vehicle (state or personal) for state business and maintain a driver's license and driving record that complies with state and agency requirements, ability to work shifts that may exceed 8 hours, including early mornings, nights, and weekends, ability to use deductive, inductive, and mathematical reasoning, and ability to communicate clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing.
