Restoration Designer

~ With our unique combination of professionals, Angler Environmental is one of the few firms in the Mid-Atlantic Region to offer true ecological design-build services. ~

By combining professional offerings such as ecological feasibility, engineering, permitting, and mitigation with implementation capabilities such as surveying, construction, monitoring, and maintenance, our project team is integrated throughout the entire life of a project. As a result, our clients realize significant benefits in efficiency, cost savings, and most importantly, having projects done right the first time.

Above all, Angler Environmental strives to maintain its reputation in both the consulting and construction industries for protecting our client's best interests and providing excellent quality of service.

Position Overview

Angler Environmental, a RES Company is accepting applications for Restoration Designers with various levels (minimum of 5 years’ experience) in our Richmond, Virginia office. The desired candidate’s tasks will include, but are not limited to responsibility for all aspects of fieldwork, writing technical reports and approaches, collecting and organizing data, concept development for stream and/or wetland site restoration plans, and site feasibility for restoration potential.

Qualifications

• The preferred candidate will possess a B.S. in an ecology, biology or environmental science field (such as but not limited to ecology, botany, geology, soils, etc.) and supplemental training (such as but not limited to Rosgen Level 1-4, NC State Stream Restoration Training Courses, or other sources of relevant graduate coursework or training)
• Candidates will have excellent technical writing and verbal communication skills. Knowledge of Federal/State/Local environmental regulations is a plus

Required Experience and Skills:

• Knowledge of stream ecology, biology, and geomorphology
• Knowledge of watershed hydrology, stream hydraulics, and sediment transport
• Ability to interpret results from H&H models
• Understanding of the use of regional regressions, regional curves, and reference data in design
• Ability to determine design discharge, channel cross section, profile and planform
• Experience in calculating TMDL sediment load, including BEHI/NBS and bank pins
• Experience in plan production or in guiding engineering staff in plan production
• Ability to prepare specifications
• Ability to observe construction, inspect work, and direct construction crews

Preferred Experience:

• Ability to develop quantity take-offs, and estimates of construction costs
• Experience in a wide range of stream channels including urban, rural, coastal, piedmont and mountains

Desired Skills:

• Geomorphic survey, including sediment measurements
• Conducting site assessments to identify reference conditions and to assess reach conditions
• Rivermorph, AutoCAD and/or Microstation

Compensation: Angler Environmental, a RES Company offers competitive salary as well as vacation, holidays, and personal leave, a challenging work environment, and the opportunity for personal development in a team-oriented environment.