Senior Water Quality Modeller
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Location: London, Cambridge, Bristol, Manchester & Leeds; UK (other UK locations considered).
Recruiter contact: Laura Easdon.
About The Division
The Water Consultancy Division is Mott MacDonald's centre of excellence for responding to water and wastewater challenges, offering fantastic opportunities to get involved in diverse and technically challenging work. The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations and protecting our environment. Our multi-disciplinary teams provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies, through outline and detailed design, to construction support and site supervision.
Overview of Role
As a senior water quality modeller, you will be a part of a large team of water resources and wastewater networks specialists working closely with our team of engineers and asset planners to deliver a wide range of services for UK and international clients. This role provides an opportunity to work with both bespoke and industry standard hydrodynamic and water quality modelling packages and to innovate beyond the current standards. You will work with industry leading experts to develop integrated river network and drainage models, investigate the natural processes influencing the fate of contaminants, build ad-hoc assessment tools tailored to project specific needs and undertake statistical analyses. For those with related interests, there are many opportunities to get involved across our teams on activities such as hydrology, systems modelling, groundwater modelling, flood modelling and computational fluid dynamics. We therefore welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds and skillsets. Your input will help our project teams and clients to deliver complex multidisciplinary projects, including addressing the impacts of cross catchment transfers, storm overflows, and discharges from infrastructure projects, resulting in strategic outcomes, engineering solutions and the desirable social outcomes that you can be proud of.
You Will Be Responsible For
* Core delivery of complex modelling projects – working with experts across a range of disciplines to apply your attention to detail and numerical skills to environmental engineering projects.
* Analysing large datasets to distil out patterns and relationships and provide insights and foresights to inform effective resolutions and interventions to create positive social and environmental impacts. Assisting with proposal writing, winning work and the development of new business by providing key technical inputs.
* Maintaining client relationships and managing projects.
* Supporting and training to junior colleagues, where practicable, mentoring and developing early career professionals.
Candidate Specification
* Relevant degree-level qualifications (e.g., geography, mathematics, environmental sciences, civil engineering, or other related disciplines)
* Chartered with an appropriate professional body.
* Track record in successful delivery of SOAF, UPM and/or river modelling projects (all levels) for UK water companies.
* Good understanding of hydrodynamics, sediments and water quality processes.
* Expertise in industry standard software such as InfoWorks and/or MIKE11.
* Willingness to innovate.
* Able to guide and mentor junior staff.
Desirable Include Skills
* Coding skills and statistical foundations will be an advantage.
* Experience in source apportionment assessments, catchment management modelling or application of nature-based solutions to tackle pollution.
Benefits
* Private medical insurance, health cash plan and wellness programs.
* Flexible benefits including extended life assurance, critical illness insurance, and payroll saving options.
* Annual bonus schemes and pension contribution match.
Location(s): Birmingham, Edinburgh, Brighton, Manchester, Cambridge, Glasgow, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol, London.
Contract Type: Permanent
Work Pattern: Full Time
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