Water Resource Specialists
Design or implement programs and strategies related to water resource issues such as supply, quality, and regulatory compliance issues.
Also called: Hydrogeologist, Senior Group Manager, Senior Hydrogeologist, Senior Water Resources Engineer
Knowledge:
Engineering and Technology
- product and service development
- design
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
- physics
Skills:
- reading work related information
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
- measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it
Abilites:
- read and understand what is written
- listen and understand what people say
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- notice when problems happen
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
- pay attention to something without being distracted
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.
They do well at jobs that need
- Analytical Thinking
- Integrity
- Attention to Detail
- Dependability
- Achievement/Effort
- Cooperation
Technology:
Analytical or scientific software
- MWH Soft H2ONET MSX
- Wallingford Software InfoWater
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- Geographic information system GIS software
Data base user interface and query software
- Database software
- Structured query language SQL