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ANCHOR QEA, LLC Senior-level Professional / Habitat Restoration in Bellingham, Washington

Title: Senior-level Professional / Habitat Restoration Location: Bellingham, Seattle, or Tacoma Job Type: Regular Full-time What's the Opportunity? Anchor QEA is seeking an individual to help expand our habitat restoration practice in the Pacific Northwest. We are particularly interested in an individual who has a background in designing, planning, and overseeing restoration for marine, estuarine, and/or freshwater tidal marsh and/or riverine and floodplain habitat, with a strong multidisciplinary technical background along with project management, client management, and business development experience. The ideal applicant will have 10 or more years of experience providing engineering or landscape architecture design along with habitat assessments for wetland, river, stream, estuary, and/or coastal restoration projects, overseeing field assessments and data collection and analysis, and overseeing restoration design and construction. The ideal candidate would be able to perform technical work, including technical studies and design work, and help manage interdisciplinary restoration teams from planning through design and construction of projects. The ideal candidate would also help our teams manage and develop projects for existing clients, as well as develop new clients and projects. Responsibilities: The successful candidate will be responsible for most, if not all, of the following: Performing and/or leading restoration design for marsh, estuary, wetland, river, stream, and floodplain habitat restoration; fish habitat evaluation; and/or grading and replanting design Incorporating watershed and regional fish and wildlife recovery goals and objectives into the design to maximize habitat function Overseeing civil, coastal, geotechnical, hydrologic, and hydraulic engineering, geomorphic analyses, and landscape architectural design Prioritizing fish habitat restoration design goals and using predictive tools to quantify anticipated functional improvements following restoration Preparing written reports and results of technical studies, including preparing documents in support of the Endangered Species Act and writing sections of NEPA and SEPA documents Managing and participating in the collection of field data Completing complex analyses and calculations both independently and with oversight Developing or overseeing engineering drawings, technical specifications, and opinions of probable cost for restoration projects with oversight Developing or overseeing the development of construction planning and observation documentation Managing the development and successful completion of projects for existing and new clients Developing scopes of work, budgets, and schedules for projects Working with other habitat restoration design staff to identify and develop new projects and clients, prepare proposals, and capture new work Managing and overseeing the professional development of junior staff What Are We Looking For? Ideal candidates will have the following: A bachelor's or master's degree in hydraulic, water resources, coastal, or civil engineering; landscape architecture; fluvial or coastal geomorphology; biology; hydrology; or similar science with a focus in habitat restoration 10 or more years' experience in aquatic, shoreline, or wetland habitat restoration projects, including progressive project management experience A comprehensive understanding of fisheries biology in the Pacific Northwest, including salmon and steelhead ecology, behavior, and population structure Familiarity with the implementation of the hydraulic modeling, design standards, regulations, and requirements for a diversity of water resource, fish passage and restoration projects in Washington and Oregon An understanding of and experience with coastal, freshwater, and estuarine systems GIS experience and familiar

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