Job Description
Status: Full-time
Classification: Non-exempt
Rate: Salary Range: 65,000-90,000 BOE and 401k match
Location: Denver (Englewood), Colorado
Safety Sensitive: Yes
About Us NewFields invites you to join our team! NewFields MDTS is a close-knit team of civil and geotechnical engineers who work on exciting national and international mining projects. Design services range from general civil site development to embankment designs for freshwater and tailings impoundments, and containment pads utilized in mineral processing. We are committed to providing safe and ethical mining designs as they play a pivotal role in securing the critical minerals essential for a sustainable future. NewFields is a small, employee-owned engineering firm that maintains an established profit-sharing program with our employees. We are growing fast and looking for hard-working and ambitious engineers to grow with us.
We pride ourselves on a strong team atmosphere and positive work culture, always striving to improve technical and interpersonal skills at every level. We are an employee-first organization and focus on providing growth and development opportunities for all our employees. Our engineers develop their skills working on diverse projects, internal mentorship from senior staff, and collaborating with our internal and external industry experts.
Here's what our current team members have to say about working at NewFields:
"The mentorship at NewFields has been amazing. Senior staff regularly take time answer questions, explain concepts, and train staff."
"One of my favorite perks is the travel opportunities. I've been able to travel to unique locations and experience cultures that I would normally never have thought possible."
"I've learned more in the last 2 years at NewFields than I did in the last 10 years at my old job."
"I love the diversity of project experience - although you may use the same skills or tools daily, no two projects are the same and most often, no two days are the same!"
Position Summary This Entry Level and Staff Level Civil/Hydrological Engineer positions are based out of our Denver (Englewood), Colorado office and will support mining projects, primarily for tailings (mine waste) dams and heap leach facilities. In general, this position entails working in the mining industry, technical consulting, working with a small dam breach analysis group, and being highly integrated with clients on civil and geotechnical projects. Civil Engineers and Environmental Engineers would be the best fit for the position, but other engineers with an interest in the mining industry, hydrology, hydraulics, numerical modeling, soils, or other areas are welcome.
Requirements
- Support tailings dam breach analyses by assessing site history, evaluating embankment fill and tailings properties, developing appropriate numerical models, mapping breach inundation extents, and identifying breach impacts.
- Develop hydrologic models (delineate catchments, input CN layers, define streamflow, input design storm events, and generate streamflow hydrographs) to assist dam breach analyses and stormwater infrastructure design.
- Complete geotechnical site assessments and associated field services for mining infrastructure development.
- Support material characterization activities including gathering field data, designing and overseeing laboratory programs, interpreting laboratory data, developing appropriate models, and drafting of technical specifications for construction.
- Work with and provide training to junior engineers.
- Assist with generating drawings and figures using Autodesk Civil 3D.
- Support ongoing Engineer-of-Record services for tailings and heap leach projects located around the world.
Qualifications - Education: Bachelor of Science (minimum); Master of Science (preferred). Civil Engineering or Environmental Engineering degrees from ABET accredited universities are preferred.
- Professional Experience: 0+ years for Entry-Level. 2+ year for Staff-Level.
- Computer Software: Significant experience with MS Office Suite. Some experience using standard hydrologic/hydraulic software (HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, etc.); some experience using GIS software; numerical modeling experience and programming experience are advantageous; and basic understanding of Autodesk Civil 3D.
- Geotechnical Laboratory: Proficient with standard material testing and index tests.
- Required Registrations / Professional Development: Successful completion of FE Exam. Professional Engineer registration with greater than 4 years of experience.
- Travel: Must have ability to travel in the U.S. and internationally to support field programs. Travel periods could be up to several weeks.
- Physical Demands: Position may require sitting for extended periods of time, extended hours working on a computer and lifting up to 30 pounds. Field assignments are located in a variety of climactic conditions and may require standing, squatting, bending, the use of machinery and a variety of standard geotechnical tools.
- Technical writing: Proficiency with technical writing is expected.
- Other (Project Level): Working knowledge of stormwater infrastructure design, geotechnical monitoring instrumentation, and numerical modeling methods and software.
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