These are exciting times to be involved in the water sector with major programmes of work to be delivered across the water and wastewater asset base in the years ahead. The water industry is facing some of the greatest challenges and change required since privatisation to deliver enhanced customer and environmental outcomes and wider socio-economic benefits.
We are working with partners to help shape the future of asset management, investment planning and delivery. We provide end-to-end technical and asset planning support to help deliver best customer value, manage risk and meet affordability requirements.
There are opportunities to support the delivery of programmes and projects at various stages in the project lifecycle. Our water projects have sustainability at their core and are outcome driven to protect the environment, reduce flood risk, improve water supplies and add value to our local communities.
Key Duties;
- Responsible for supporting the technical delivery and Project Manager to ensure the successful delivery of robustly defined technical solutions.
- Experience in network hydraulic modelling (InfoWorks ICM).
- Working with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver projects within agreed timeframes and budgets and to exceed our clients’ expectations.
- Work as part of a team being involved in a variety of projects including model build and verification, using existing models to understand system performance.
- Optioneering and solutions development of flooding and CSO drivers.
- Working to client specifications and industry standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Interacting directly with various personnel in our client’s organisations, including face to face progress meetings.
- Investigation, analysis and resolution of drainage network issues.
- Scoping of network surveys to supplement model updates.
- Review and manage weekly contractor survey submissions.
- Building and maintaining hydraulic models.
- Delivery of technical reports and hydraulic modelling studies.
- Undertake the development of modelled engineering solutions to mitigate the effects of development, to solve sewer flooding and to address unsatisfactory overflows.
- Working knowledge of GIS tools (MapInfo, ArcGIS).
- Assist with the preparation of cost estimates for modelling.
- Supervise site surveys and field investigations.
- Plan, programme, co-ordinate and write reports for specific projects.
- Driving health and safety in all aspects of our projects.
- Communicating and liaising effectively with colleagues, contracting engineers, subcontractors, sub-consultants and clients.
- Providing guidance and support to less experienced graduate engineers or technicians.
