POSITION:
Civil Engineer: 0 to 3+ Years Experience

FIRM:
Norwest is a rapidly-growing international energy, mining, and environmental consulting firm working on a wide variety of challenging resource development issues.  Norwest does a significant amount of groundwater modeling, aquifer testing and analysis, and geochemistry work.

Norwest is a private employee-owned company with approximately 200 full-time employees.   Norwest’s main offices are in Denver, Golden, Salt Lake City, Calgary, and Vancouver.  The Denver office, which is currently hiring, manages the hydrology and environmental work.   Norwest also has satellite offices in rural Colorado, Brisbane, Australia, Beijing, China, and Buenos Aires, Argentina.  Eighty percent of Norwest’s projects are in North America and the rest are overseas (India, Mongolia, China, Australia, Mozambique, Kazakhstan, Mexico, and Argentina).  Norwest is a market leader in oil sand evaluation and planning, reservoir engineering, coal mining, and coalbed methane (CBM) evaluation and development. 

SUMMARY:
This position will consist of a mixture of design and field work.  The successful candidate will be responsible for a range of tasks, including designing ditches, sedimentation ponds, reservoirs, culverts, road crossings, weirs, and other water conveyance structures.  This position will also provide construction oversight for the water conveyance structures.  Candidates should be prepared to spend an average of 30% of the time in the field, depending on project requirements and field season timing.

RANGE OF POSSIBLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design water conveyance structures (diversion ditches, dikes, sedimentation ponds, weirs, flumes, pond outlet works, reservoirs, flow gauging stations, drop structures, culverts, drop structures, etc)
• Use AutoCAD Civil 3D to determine alignments, cut and fill requirements
• Stormwater and watershed modeling
• Mine reclamation closure design work
• Write reports summarizing project context, field work, data reduction, analysis, and interpretation.

 
POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in civil, environmental, or geotechnical engineering.
• AutoCADD experience.
• Ability to travel.
• Willingness to work in the field
• Successful completion of the FE exam

DESIRABLE SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES:

• Masters Degree
• Construction oversight experience
• Strong statistical background
• Soil testing experience
• Advanced experience with complex spreadsheets (MS Excel) and formulas
• Field experience doing stream gauging
• Watershed and stormwater modeling
• Surveying experience
• Competence with field equipment and procedures
• Familiarity with groundwater modeling
• Well design and installation experience
• Aquifer  testing and analysis experience
• Basic safety training
• AQTESOLV
• Surfer
• ArcGIS
• MS Access
• Rockworks
  

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:

• High analytical aptitude
• Strong drive to learn
• Strong initiative
• Adaptable to quickly changing environments
• Ability to work both independently and as team members
• Resourceful and willing to share knowledge
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task
• Willingly accepts new challenges
• Takes ownership and great pride in their work

The ideal candidate will be passionate about their own success and that of the company

LOCATION:
Denver, Colorado

COMPENSATION:
Competitive, based on experience.  Full benefits including health care, 401(k), two weeks paid vacation, 11 holidays

CONTACT:
Please send resume to:
Jen Kos at jkos@norwestcorp.com