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Careers At LRE Water

We are looking for potential employees who demonstrate:
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Hunger: You have a drive to learn, always strive for excellence, and enjoy overcoming challenges through perseverance and innovation.
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Intelligence: You see things from different perspectives, and use this understanding to solve complex problems.
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Humility: You appreciate mistakes because they lead to further learning and understanding, welcome constructive feedback, and actively support team and project members in their work.
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We are proud of the fun, encouraging environment we've built here at LRE Water. No matter what your experience level, you will be surrounded by multi-talented, intelligent professionals who support a culture of innovation and growth.
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At LRE, our goal is to find the right mix of people to build our business and serve our valued clients. Because we are dedicated to our core values, we specifically recruit professionals who are aligned with our needs and culture.
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Generally, we hire professionals with water industry experience as an engineer, geologist or scientist. We want people who demonstrate a combination of technical, management, computer, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills. If you feel your education, work experience, and skill sets match these requirements, we encourage you to send us a letter and resume expressing your interest.&nbsp;
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<h3>Benefits Include:</h3>
Our benefits program is designed to provide staff with the opportunity to realize personal, professional, and financial growth.
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<li>2 healthcare plan options, employee premiums paid at 100%</li>
<li>Monthly employer contribution to HSA or HRA</li>
<li>Full dental benefits in and out of network</li>
<li>Vision premium paid at 100% for employees&nbsp;</li>
<li>Life, short-, and long-term disability and AD&amp;D paid 100% by LRE Water.&nbsp; Only 23% of small employers offer STD/LTD as a paid benefit</li>
<li>A patient-advocacy program (a free service that helps employees navigate benefits and health conditions)</li>
<li>401K Match Benefits with immediate vesting of personal and employer contributions</li>
<li>Employee ownership and shareholder opportunities</li>
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<h3>Equal Employment Opportunity:</h3>
LRE is dedicated to the principles of equal employment opportunity. LRE promotes a work environment that does not discriminate against employees or job applicants and prohibits unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, marital status, genetics, ancestry, gender identity, or veteran status, including special disabled veterans. LRE validates right to work using E-Verify.

Why Join the LRE Water Team?

Working at LRE Water is a privilege because it allows me to pursue these passions through collaborating with highly skilled and talented colleagues to positively impact our communities.

LRE Water is always seeking experienced Water Resources Senior Project Managers, with 15+ years of experience in water rights and water resource engineering. This position includes the potential for company ownership and leadership positions. This individual will be based primarily in our Denver, CO office.
<h3>Job Description:</h3>
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<li aria-level="1">Manage projects, budgets, and client relationships, and provide quality control review, for projects such as the following:
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<li aria-level="2">Technical support for Water Court applications (SWSPs, Augmentation Plans, etc.)</li>
<li aria-level="2">Water supply planning studies</li>
<li aria-level="2">Hydrologic and water rights yield investigations</li>
<li aria-level="2">Stream depletion analyses such as crop consumptive use, net depletions, and evaluation of potential injury to other water users</li>
<li aria-level="2">Water budget models for discrete systems and for river basin modeling</li>
<li aria-level="2">Assist clients in identifying, understanding, and solving problems</li>
</ul>
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<li aria-level="1">Coordination with attorneys, water users, administrators, objectors, and colleagues</li>
<li aria-level="1">Preparation of scopes of work and technical reports, including expert disclosure reports</li>
<li aria-level="1">Expert testimony in Water Court, including litigation support</li>
<li aria-level="1">Ability to foster relationships that lead to new and repeat clients</li>
</ul>
<h3>Desired Skills and Experience:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Educational background: Bachelor or higher degree in engineering, hydrology, watershed, science, geology, or similar</li>
<li aria-level="1">At least 15 years of relevant experience in Colorado water rights and water resource engineering, including a working knowledge of Colorado water rights and water administration</li>
<li aria-level="1">Strong technical skills, including skill in interpretation and understanding of water right decrees; administration guidelines; maps; and water supply, demand, and use data</li>
<li aria-level="1">Strong writing skills and verbal communication skills</li>
<li aria-level="1">Strong project management skills, including management of staff</li>
<li aria-level="1">Professional registration preferred</li>
<li aria-level="1">Positive attitude</li>
<li aria-level="1">Independent, self-directed, motivated</li>
<li aria-level="1">Interpersonal, problem-solving, and decision making skills</li>
<li aria-level="1">Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships</li>
</ul>
<h3>Total Compensation:</h3>
The starting salary range for this position is $95,000 &ndash; $178,000 annually depending upon years of experience and education. LRE also distributes bonuses and 401k contributions based on annual company profitability. LRE reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted salary range depending on experience. Employer paid benefits increase total compensation by approximately 20%. Additionally, LRE supports training and professional development activities for all staff and offers discretionary bonus opportunities as recognition for performance, earning a professional credential, speaking engagements or publication.&nbsp; LRE does not discriminate on the basis of any protected category with respect to the payment of wages.

Senior Project Manager - Water Rights (CO)

LRE Water is always seeking professionals with water rights' experience to join our Denver, Colorado office.&nbsp;
Description of Position:
<ul>
<li>Manage or assist in managing projects, tasks, budgets, and client relationships, and provide quality control review, for projects such as the following:</li>
<li>Technical support for Water Court applications (SWSPs, Augmentation Plans, etc.)</li>
<li>Water supply planning studies</li>
<li>Hydrologic and water rights yield investigations</li>
<li>Stream depletion analyses such as crop consumptive use, net depletions, and evaluation of potential injury to other water users</li>
<li>Water budget models for discrete systems and for river basin modeling</li>
<li>Assist clients in identifying, understanding, and solving problems</li>
<li>Coordination with attorneys, water users, administrators, objectors, and colleagues</li>
<li>Preparation of scopes of work and technical reports, including expert disclosure reports</li>
<li>Expert testimony in Water Court, including litigation support</li>
<li>Ability to foster relationships that lead to new and repeat clients</li>
</ul>
Desired Skills and Experience:
<ul>
<li>Educational background: Bachelor or higher degree in engineering, hydrology, watershed, science, geology, or similar</li>
<li>At least 2-15 years of relevant experience in water rights (experience in other states may be considered) and water resource engineering</li>
<li>Strong technical skills, including skill in interpretation and understanding of water right decrees; administration guidelines; maps; and water supply, demand, and use data</li>
<li>Strong writing skills and verbal communication skills</li>
<li>Strong project management skills, including management of staff</li>
<li>Professional registration preferred</li>
<li>Positive attitude</li>
<li>Independent, self-directed, motivated</li>
<li>Interpersonal, problem-solving, and decision making skills</li>
<li>Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships</li>
</ul>
Total Compensation:
The salary range for this position is $65,000 &ndash; $150,000 annually depending upon years of experience and education. Salary is negotiable for a higher level of experience. LRE also distributes bonuses and 401k contributions based on annual company profitability. LRE reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted salary range depending on experience. Employer paid benefits increase total compensation by approximately 20%. Additionally, LRE supports training and professional development activities for all staff and offers discretionary bonus opportunities as recognition for performance, earning a professional credential, speaking engagements or publication. LRE does not discriminate on the basis of any protected category.
Flexible/Hybrid Work Options:
LRE Water offers a hybrid work environment that promotes flexibility for our employees and encourages work/life balance. This role will require some local travel to the Denver office, client meetings, and legal proceedings. Full- or part-time schedules are available.

Technical Water Rights Professional

LRE Water is seeking professionals with 0 to 3 years of water rights experience to join our Denver, Colorado office.
Description of Position:
&bull; Assist technical experts in tasks such as the following: &bull; Technical support for Water Court applications (SWSPs, Augmentation Plans, etc.) &bull; Water supply planning studies &bull; Hydrologic and water rights yield investigations &bull; Stream depletion analyses such as crop consumptive use, net depletions, and evaluation of potential injury to other water users &bull; Water budget models for discrete systems and for river basin modeling &bull; Assist clients in identifying, understanding, and solving problems &bull; Coordination with attorneys, water users, administrators, objectors, and colleagues &bull; Preparation of scopes of work and technical reports, including expert disclosure reports &bull; Litigation support
Desired Skills and Experience: &bull; Educational background: Bachelor or higher degree in engineering, hydrology, watershed, science, geology, or similar &bull; Zero to three years of experience in water rights or water resource engineering &bull; Strong Excel and GIS skills &bull; Strong writing and verbal communication skills &bull; Positive attitude &bull; Independent, self-directed, motivated &bull; Interpersonal, problem-solving, and decision making skills &bull; Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships
Advancement/Training Opportunities: &bull; Training provided on the job in technical skills, water rights issues, project management, delegation and staff management, leadership and consulting skills &bull; Training provided in the Water Court process, potentially including expert testimony &bull; Professional registration encouraged and supported &bull; Continual training and development encouraged and supported &bull; Advancement into project and client management encouraged and supported
Total Compensation: The salary range for this position is $65,500 to $76,500 annually depending upon years of experience and education. Salary is negotiable for a higher level of experience. LRE also distributes bonuses and 401k contributions based on annual company profitability. LRE reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted salary range depending on experience and education. Employer paid benefits increase total compensation by approximately 20%. Additionally, LRE supports training and professional development activities for all staff and offers discretionary bonus opportunities as recognition for performance, earning a professional credential, speaking engagements or publication. LRE does not discriminate on the basis of any protected category.
Flexible/Hybrid Work Options: LRE Water offers a hybrid work environment that promotes flexibility for our employees and encourages work/life balance. This role will be based in the Denver office, and may require some travel for field work or to client meetings, and legal proceedings.&nbsp;

Staff I or II Technical Water Rights Professional

LRE Water (LRE) is seeking a talented Data Scientist / Database Developer with 6+ years of experience to join our Technology group. This position will report to the CTO and will support the development of cutting edge solutions for turning complex and varied data sources into usable and visual information for our clients. &nbsp;The successful candidate can choose an in-office, hybrid or remote schedule depending on their preference.&nbsp; &nbsp; Responsibilities:&nbsp;
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<li>Building required database and code infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from various data sources using SQL programming</li>
<li>Creating data &ldquo;endpoints&rdquo; for use by our reporting and presentation applications</li>
<li>Reviewing and analyzing data to determine how it must be manipulated to meet the unique needs of the project.</li>
<li>Automating process for collecting, reviewing and storing data. Developing database documentation, including creating entity relationship diagrams.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Developing testing and review procedures to ensure consistency and conformity of data.</li>
<li>Transferring data between formats to make it more appropriate for analysis and reporting.</li>
<li>Working with various team members to support their data and database needs.</li>
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Qualifications Required:
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<li>Bachelor's Degree</li>
<li>6 years of experience in SQL programming</li>
<li>4 years of experience working with relational database systems</li>
<li>2 years of experience in web software development</li>
<li>Database experience with PostgreSQL and scripting with plpgSQL</li>
<li>Comfortable working with legacy code and improving it</li>
<li>Adept at collaborating within chat applications, instant messaging and video/screen-share technologies</li>
</ul>
Strongly Preferred:
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<li>Experience working with PostGIS</li>
<li>Web programming experience in HTML coding and Javascript in HTML</li>
<li>Code management in GitHub</li>
<li>Experience administering Linux with Ubuntu Server OS including writing BASH scripts and CRON jobs and managing file and user permissions</li>
<li>Experience creating and maintaining Amazon Web Services cloud servers</li>
</ul>
Helpful:
<ul>
<li>Web programming experience in React JS (including React Graphing libraries)</li>
<li>Experience integrating Mapbox GL JS into React applications</li>
<li>Programming experience with R, Python, and/or PHP</li>
<li>Experience with Geographical Information Systems (GIS) sciences</li>
<li>Data background in water resources or environmental sciences.</li>
</ul>
&nbsp; Other Useful Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
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<li>Skilled in data formatting, and building tools to automate of data collection and transformation</li>
<li>Ability to perform data quality review and scripting automated error checking routines</li>
<li>Ability and willingness to document technical steps and processes</li>
<li>Attention to detail without losing sight of the big picture</li>
<li>Knowledge of environmental data, in particular water resources data</li>
<li>Knowledge of statistical evaluation and analysis</li>
<li>Knowledge of architecting IT reproducible analysis processes</li>
<li>Familiarity with field equipment installation and maintenance</li>
</ul>
&nbsp;Total Compensation: The salary range for this position is $80,000 - $120,000 annually depending upon years of experience and education. Salary is negotiable for a higher level of experience. LRE reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted salary range depending on experience. LRE also distributes bonuses and 401k contributions based on annual company profitability. Employer paid benefits increase total compensation by approximately 20%. Additionally, LRE supports training and professional development activities for all staff and offers discretionary bonus opportunities as recognition for performance, earning a professional credential, speaking engagements or publication. LRE does not discriminate on the basis of any protected category. &nbsp; Flexible/Hybrid Work Options: LRE Water offers a hybrid work environment that promotes flexibility for our employees and encourages work/life balance. This role can be performed entirely remotely if desired.

Data Scientist / Database Programmer

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LRE Water is a recognized leader in water resources throughout the western United States with offices in Colorado, Arizona, Texas, Utah, Nebraska, Minnesota, & Kansas.