MIAMI-DADE COUNTY

WATER & SEWER DEPARTMENT

Senior Professional Engineer – Modeling and Data Analytics

 Water & Sewer Planning Division

Salary Start and Cap Range:  $ 85,248.8-$ 139,791.08

Miami-Dade County’s Water and Sewer Department (WASD) delivers safe, potable drinking water to nearly 2.3 million people every day – more than the total population of 15 states. As the largest water and sewer utility in the Southeastern United States, the department has a large Capital Improvement Program (CIP) which will have far reaching benefits to the community in terms of health, environmental, as well as economic. 

During the next two decades, the County will invest approximately $7 billion to enhance and upgrade WASD’s infrastructure utilizing state-of-the-art technology. It increases service capacity that will support more businesses to open in the community, improves the reliability and sustainability of the water and sewer system.

The Water & Sewer Department is seeking an innovative and highly technical Senior Professional Engineer for the Water & Sewer Planning Division who will be responsible for managing the modeling and data analytics teams.  The Senior Professional Engineer will coordinate all activities of the section with the new business team to support development in the County, and the master planning, capital improvements and operations teams to ensure proper planning and design of water and wastewater facilities to meet demands.  

Preferences:

1. Experience in hydraulic modeling of water/wastewater systems, data collection and analytics software, understanding of utility operations, and ability to guide the development of capacity planning reports is preferred.
2. Knowledge of civil/environmental engineering, land use planning, and integration with water and sewer planning is highly desired.
3. Comprehensive knowledge of the principles and practices of water and sewer pump and pipeline planning and design, data collection and manipulation, with experience in contributing to water and wastewater system master plans is preferred.

The Senior Professional Engineer of the Section will play an integral role in guiding WASD’s multi-billion capital improvement program, and the overall success of the organization. The position will be responsible for managing the hydraulic modeling group, researching issues to develop innovative alternative solutions to data gaps, modeling challenges, pump designs, and operational problems. This position entails the supervision of data and software resources for modeling, asset management, condition assessments, regulatory support, sustainability, and operations and maintenance optimization.