Job Description
This is a remote position.
As a Principal Hydrologist you will lead and grow the Water Environment team to resolve your client’s flood risk and drainage issues, and to deliver environmentally positive solutions to their broader challenges.
About Our Client
Our client is a specialist and bespoke environmental and sustainability management consultancy whose purpose is to help their clients become more sustainable and realise the opportunities and benefits that this can bring to their businesses.
Flexibility
Our client believes that people achieve the most when they can work in a manner that works best for them and have a genuinely flexible approach to work in terms of both hours and location. They want you to maintain your work/life balance to find an approach that works best for all. If you are the right person for them, they will try to make it work.
Job Purpose
As a Principal Hydrologist, your role will be to lead and grow the Water Environment team through winning and delivering high quality work for clients by supporting them in resolving their flood risk and drainage issues, including flood modelling and design of SUDs and natural flood management projects.
Key Responsibilities
· Lead and grow the water environment team and their service offering
· Identifying solutions to client problems
· Flood risk assessment and scheme design
· Preparation of tenders and quotes
· Project management
· Represent the company to clients, suppliers and prospects
· Provide mentoring support and training to junior colleagues
· Reviewing technical work
Requirements
· Degree in related subject, and / or relevant professional experience
· Experience of flood risk assessment and flood modelling, natural flood management and SUDs design
· Enthusiastic commitment to the role of consultancy in improving environmental and sustainability outcomes whist being sensitive to and considerate of needs of clients, colleagues and other stakeholders
· Experience within a commercial consultancy role.
· Pro-active solution focused
· Flexible approach to work, ability to work on multiple projects
· Excellent report writing skills
Benefits
· Discretionary profit share scheme
· Generous annual leave entitlement
· Additional day's birthday leave
· Unlimited training budget with your training plan
· 3 paid volunteer days
· Enhanced contributory pension scheme
· Cycle to work scheme
· Healthcare scheme
Requirements
We want someone who’s not only technically skilled but also brings initiative, collaboration, and care to their work.