WRc is seeking a Senior GIS Consultant to join our growing Digital Products and Services team, our focus is on delivering innovative and practical solutions to the water sector, helping clients tackle complex challenges across both clean water and wastewater networks.
This is a full time (37 hours) hybrid role, based at our office in Hattersley, Manchester.
The successful candidate will support the Technical Director and wider team across a programme of multidisciplinary projects. As a senior member of the team, you will combine deep GIS expertise with experience across related fields such as hydraulic modelling, utilities, data analytics and data science.
We are looking for someone who is comfortable operating across a range of technical disciplines, bringing creative input to digital solution design, and actively supports the development of others through line management, coaching, and mentoring.
You’ll be part of a supportive community of GIS, data science, and digital professionals who work across a wide range of projects—both client-facing and internal. A key part of your role will be to help foster a confident, inclusive team environment where innovation is encouraged and high-quality work is consistently delivered.
Key Responsibilities
* Project Leadership & Delivery – lead or support the delivery of multidisciplinary digital projects.
* Integrate GIS, data science, and modelling techniques to create cohesive solutions.
* Scope and design spatial workflows and visualisation tools to answer client needs.
* Innovation & Solution Development – bring new ideas and ways of working to the team.
* Champion the use of modern, open-source GIS and coding-based geospatial workflows (e.g. GeoPandas, PostGIS, Python, R).
* Technical Excellence – apply best‑practice GIS principles to spatial data analysis, management, and visualisation.
* Ensure spatial data integrity and interoperability within wider project data pipelines.
* Team Development & Line Management – line manage and mentor junior staff, supporting their technical and professional development.
* Promote a collaborative and inclusive team culture focused on learning, quality, and innovation.
Qualifications
* A degree in a relevant field such as Geographic Information Systems, Geospatial Data Science, Geography, Environmental Science or Water Resources Management.
* Previous proven experience in GIS consultancy, ideally within the utilities, infrastructure, or environmental sectors.
* Solid understanding of geospatial analysis, spatial data engineering, and mapping.
* Solid understanding of water networks and their spatial representation and components.
* Develop solutions for complex water‑related problems, such as water quality, resilience and infrastructure degradation.
* Proficient in Python and/or R, particularly with geospatial libraries (e.g. GeoPandas, Fiona, Shapely, PyProj, rasterio).
* Experience developing or supporting digital solutions that bring together GIS, data modelling, and client objectives.
£48,000 - £51,250 depending on experience
Benefits
* Life assurance
* A flexible benefits programme including the option to buy additional holidays, health cash plan and discounted gym membership.
* Contributary pension scheme.
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