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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Manage and collaborate in a multidisciplinary design environment for the completion and delivery of water control infrastructures such as flood pump stations, community flood protection dikes, dams, spillways, drainage/conveyance channels, culvert crossings, bridge crossings, drop structures, and weirs within the province of Manitoba.• Procure and manage engineering service providers for the delivery of design services, development of construction drawings and technical specifications, and construction administration/construction inspection services for various water control infrastructure projects.• Review project deliverables including hydrodynamic model computations and results, preliminary and detailed design reports, construction drawings, technical specifications, and tender documents.• Coordinate meetings with local governments, stakeholders, and provincial regulators to present initial design alternative development stage and to review results of the analysis and evaluation of alternatives.• Provide support and guidance to junior staff and Engineering Interns.• Develop one-dimensional and two-dimensional HEC RAS models, and undertake hydraulic analysis and design of water control infrastructures for drainage/conveyance channels, culvert crossings, bridge crossings, drop structures, and weirs within Manitoba's provincial waterway network.• Develop and calibrate one-dimensional hydrodynamic models in HEC-RAS to produce flood risk maps for Manitoba communities.• Operate M9 Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) to collect and process flow metering data on the Portage Diversion, Assiniboine River, Red River, and Red River Floodway during the spring flood events.

Manitoba, Canada

• Survey railway safety inventory for over 400 railroad crossings within Manitoba’s provincial highway network.• Create a railway crossing inspection guide to ensure consistency in the methodology of conducting future rail crossing inspection surveys.• Collect height and GPS location data for over 40 overhead advance warning signs in Manitoba.• Collaborate with a team of Geographic Information System (GIS) technicians to improve the structure and accessibility of Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation's railway crossing database.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Evaluate hydraulic and hydrologic conditions of provincial drains in Manitoba.• Perform steady-state hydraulic analysis using Hydrologic Engineering Centre’s River Analysis System (HEC-RAS) modeling software for five (5) drain projects within Manitoba’s Provincial Waterway network.• Develop preliminary reports with hydraulic design recommendations for channel clean-out, culverts and drop structures that will meet Manitoba Transportation and Infrastructure’s hydraulic design criteria.• Collaborate with the regional and maintenance staff and Manitoba Water Stewardship to gather project background information.

Thompson, Manitoba, Canada

• Collect cross-sectional data for provincial highways and drains using total station and GPS/Rover surveying equipment (Surveying).• Establish survey control, assemble, and operate GPS / Rover and total station surveying equipment.• Evaluate road densities for "A" base and asphalt lifts to ensure design specifications are met (Density Gauge Inspector).

Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada

• Calculate and assist with material placement on site to meet design specifications (Checking).• Weigh and record material quantities brought to the project site and ensure loads are within the predetermined gross weight limits (Scaling).• Evaluate the grade distribution of base course and granular fill materials for installation on-site (Sieve Analysis).• Provide direction to the motoring public to enhance the safety of the work environment (Flagging).

B.Sc.(C.E.) - Bachelor Of Science In Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering

Activities and Societies: -American Concrete Institute (ACI) Student Chapter

High School Diploma (French Immersion Program), High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates