Infrastructure Resilience Specialist

Fortuna BMC • Los Angeles, CA

5d • Remote

About The Position

You will help strengthen and protect critical water infrastructure systems by developing strategies that improve reliability, adaptability, and continuity of service. Your expertise in resilience planning, climate adaptation, and vulnerability assessments will directly support infrastructure hardening and risk mitigation initiatives. In this role, you will influence long-term resiliency investments that prepare utility systems for evolving environmental and operational threats. This is an opportunity to shape future-state resilience for essential public infrastructure. This opportunity is contingent on our client being awarded the contract.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in infrastructure resilience, planning, or utility operations
• Background in civil engineering, utility planning, or resilience strategy
• Expertise in climate adaptation, seismic resilience, and wildfire mitigation
• Strong knowledge of critical asset identification and continuity planning
• Experience supporting public infrastructure resilience initiatives

Nice To Haves

• California utility or public-sector resilience experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Conduct infrastructure resilience and vulnerability assessments
• Evaluate risks to critical water systems and recommend mitigation strategies
• Support climate adaptation and resilience planning initiatives
• Develop resilience roadmaps and infrastructure hardening strategies
• Identify service continuity risks and improvement opportunities
• Advise on resilience-focused infrastructure investment priorities

Benefits

• Paid sick leave based on state regulations after 90 days of employment
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage after a waiting period (60% paid by Fortuna)
• Free TeleMedicine and Mental Health support for all employees and their families
• Group Life Insurance
• Accidental Insurance
• Critical Care
• Short-Term Disability

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed