As a lead member of a growing team, you will be responsible for overseeing and delivering:
• Flood Risk Assessments for nationally important infrastructure projects.
• Technical design for flood risk management projects.
• Business cases for flood risk management schemes - Surface Water Management Plans.
• Climate change resilience and adaptation plans, in addition to technical project delivery.
Responsibilities will include:
• Coordination of resources and line management of team members.
• Training and mentoring of members of the team.
• Maintaining and developing strong internal and external client relationships.
• Providing high quality advice for a variety of infrastructure projects.
• Quality Assurance on project deliverables - Working with the wider UK Water Environment team.
• Collaborating with other areas of the business on multi-disciplinary projects.
• Business development, provide expert and consultative input to bids and proposals.
- Degree in Civil Engineering or Environmental Engineering, Hydrology, Physical Geography or Environmental Science
- Chartered through ICE or CIWEM
- Excellent knowledge and experience of planning policy and infrastructure design requirements, river or drainage engineering.
- Experience in the development and costing of options to manage flood risk, including resistance and resilience measures.
- Detailed knowledge in the calculation of economic flood damages and benefits.
- Demonstrable track record in business case preparation and the application of five case business model for Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Schemes.
- Ability to develop, price and agree scope of services.
- Excellent report writing and presentation skills.
- Experience of working with stakeholders such as Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, SEPA, Water and Sewerage companies.
- Have an understanding of 1D-2D hydraulic modelling software (e.g. Flood Mapper, TUFLOW, InfoWorks etc.) and Application of GIS software such as MapInfo, ArcGIS and QGIS
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