Job Summary: As a Water Resource Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the management, conservation, and sustainability use of water resources. Your primary responsibility will be to develop and implement strategies to ensure the efficient allocation and utilization of water while adhering to regulatory requirements and addressing environmental concerns. This role requires a strong understanding of water management principles, water rights, regulations, administering lease and rental applications and the ability to work with government agencies, and private and public sector. This role will need an intimate knowledge of, and maintaining business relationships within, the northern Colorado water market.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Ditch Company Representation/Boards
Beeman
Lupton Meadows/Bottoms
Rural
Contract Management
Water Storage
Town of Firestone
Carbon Valley
Firestone
City of Aurora
Cannon Land Co.
Water Storage Delivery Notices
Leak Tests and Reclamation
Area Capacity Surveys
ALTAs and other associated Closing Docs
Portfolio Management
External and Internal Water Lease Management
Share Utilization and Value Optimization
Proactive Acquisition Identification and Market Value Surveyance
Divest/Monetize Evaluations: Water and Water Storage
Marketing of Water Assets
Project Management/Identification
Identify opportunities with in our unique land positions
Water Storage – Internal use and optimization? Business Unit? Lease?
Identify logistical optimization of our existing portfolio (i.e. easement or land acquisitions, inlet/outlet works, ditch improvements, pumps, etc.)
Put out to Bid, Contract and Manage internal field projects as it relates to water related infrastructure.
Legal/Engineering
Manage Water Court Legal Representation
Manage Water Resource Engineer Consultant
Monitor Cases LGE is opposing
Manage LGE Water Court Cases
Operations
Manage water assets as it relates to mining operations
SWSPs
Slurry Walls/Water Storage
Groundwater Monitoring as it relates to mine sites
Networking
Develop and Maintain Network of leaders, landowners and users in the water world to best position LGE for profitability.
Performs other duties as required
Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Water Law, Business Management or related field.
8+ years of experience in water resources related work; or
Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
Required Skills/Abilities:
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Knowledge of Colorado water law and the Northern Colorado Water Market
Ability to travel as required to meetings, conferences, projects.
Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with government officials, employees, contractors, consultants, and the public.
Knowledge in conducting water resource research.
Physical Requirements:
Performs all duties in a well-ventilated, well-lit, and temperature-controlled office environment.
L.G. Everist, Inc., founded in 1876 produces and supplies sand, gravel and quarried stone throughout the Midwest region of the United States. The L.G. Everist Midwest Division reaches from Kansas City to Fargo along the I-29 corridor and the Mountain Division spans the front range near Denver and Colorado Springs. L. G. Everist, Inc. owns Ace Ready Mix, D&I Railroad and Myrl & Roy's Paving, all based out of Sioux Falls, SD. These subsidiaries along with 16 locations in the Midwest Division and 6 locations in the Mountain Division allow L.G. Everist, Inc. to serve a vast customer demand over an eight-state region.
Quality aggregate materials is what L.G. Everist, Inc. specializes in; safely mining and producing alluvial aggregates as well as quarrying and crushing granite and quartzite. Aggregates are produced for asphaltic concrete, PCC concrete, road base, erosion protection, railroad ballast and a vast list of other applications, all to meet multiple Federal, State, and local agency specifications.
L. G. Everist, Inc. owns and operates numerous transload facilities strategically placed in both the Midwest and Mountain Divisions. These facilities receive rail shipments of pr...oducts and place on trucks for the local "last mile" delivery. Transload capabilities and current activities include: aggregates, dry bulk fly ash, cement, lime products, barley, salt products, liquid calcium chloride, magnesium chloride, lumber, glycol, crude oil and frac sand and everything in between.
In conjunction with the mining operations in the Mountain Division, L.G. Everist, Inc. has repurposed many of their mine sites as water storage reservoirs for their final end of mine life use. These water storage reservoirs provide the Colorado Front Range with much needed water supply storage which feeds residential, commercial and Industrial needs for the local municipalities and private owners who end up operating these reservoirs.
