Permit Engineer

State of Illinois•Springfield, IL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is seeking to hire a Permit Engineer for The Office of Water Resources. This position will review engineering computations in support of projects involving such elements as flood control, drainage, water supply and demand, low flow augmentation, irrigation, streambank protection, and recreation analysis, compute such items as channel discharges, river stages, watershed runoff, estimates of volumes and areas, estimates of cuts and fills and structural stress on strain analysis, evaluate the summary output while assisting in assigned projects, and will review and prepare construction plans, specifications and cost estimates. We welcome interested applicants who would like to be part of this team to apply today.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering from a college or university program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).
Requires two years of experience in civil or water resource engineering; or one year of engineering experience as a Civil Engineer I and completion of an agency approved training program.
Requires completion of a background check and self-disclosure of criminal history.
Requires appropriate, valid driver’s license
Requires ability to travel in the performance of duties, with overnight stays as appropriate.

Responsibilities

Under general supervision from the Senior Water Resources Engineer, performs moderately difficult professional civil engineering duties.
Participates in engineering training programs which develop engineering expertise and computer skills.
Collects data for assigned projects, including river stages, precipitation, high water information, previous computations, field site information, maps and other drawings.
Develops working relations with OWR employees, and other Departmental and non-Departmental contacts.
Maintains project files to document computations and project evaluations and substantiate recommendations.
Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of work of the duties enumerated above.