Job Description
About Our Team:
Our water resources team delivers projects for several domestic and international private and public sector clients.
We can offer a diverse range of experience for candidates with a wide spectrum of interests and career goals. We offer a flexible hybrid working model. As a member of our team, you will enjoy a comprehensive benefits package with a range of flexible choices covering health, finance, lifestyle, well-being and more.
You will work alongside our experienced engineers and consultants as you develop these skills within a positive culture where learning and development is actively supported and promoted.
Here’s what you’ll do:
* Planning and Consents: Work with stakeholders to ensure that proposed developments are compliant with planning regulations and undertake Flood Risk Assessments, Consent and Permit Applications in line with flood risk regulatory requirements. Work with Local Authorities to assist in the preparation of Local Flood Risk Management Strategies, Strategic Flood Risk Assessments and Section 19 Reports under the Flood and Water Management Act (2010).
* Optioneering and Appraisal: Contribute to the development of Flood Risk Management Schemes under the Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Guidance (FCERM).
* Modelling: Undertake hydraulic modelling using packages such as Flood Modeller, TUFLOW, HEC-RAS and infoWorks ICM, to analyse the impact of flood risk to and from development and help support the design of flood mitigation schemes.
* Assessment of Flood Risk: Analyse and assess the risk of flooding to and from developments through the use of GIS and online datasets. This may involve obtaining and utilising hydraulic modelling outputs.
* Project Management : Contribute to the management of projects through tasks such as programme management, budget control and progress reporting.
* Collaboration & Communication: Liaise with clients and teams of multi-disciplinary technical specialists across AECOM on major infrastructure and environment projects.
Enjoy the Perks.
At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.
Here is what you will get from us!
We support our graduates to pursue their professional development through professional organisations such as ICE or CIWEM. This is further complimented by AECOM’s Graduate Development programme, providing broader development and training and an opportunity to meet with other graduates.
Qualifications
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?
Here’s what we’re looking for:
* BSc in Geography, Natural Hazard Management or Environmental Science Degree, with a 2:1 classification (or equivalent)
* A Masters Degree would be an advantage
* Water related modules would be an advantage
* Relevant work experience would be an advantage
* Enthusiastic, hard-working, technically proficient, with ambition and drive.
* Basic computer skills essential (Word/Excel) and good report writing skills beneficial.
* Willing and able to work towards professional qualifications such as ICE & CIWEM
* Demonstrable interest in water projects
* Capability to satisfy client and business expectations and be able to consider the wider financial and commercial implications of their actions.
* Communicate effectively to internal and external clients, both verbally & in writing.
* Structure & prioritise work effectively through close cooperation with the team as a whole.
* Ability to work independently without losing initiative & focus
Additional Information
About AECOM
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.