Senior/Principal Water Scientist/Planning
Join our dynamic Water Environment Team as a Senior/Principal Water Scientist. The role is based in the UK and Ireland, with a flexible hybrid working model.
Job Description
Here’s what you’ll do:
* Actively support the health, safety and well‑being of the team and other colleagues.
* Support the preparation of high quality and commercially astute bids and tenders for water science services across a wide range of sectors including energy, utilities, transport, defence, water, residential and commercial.
* Co‑ordinate multidisciplinary teams of water scientists, hydrogeologists, hydromorphologists, aquatic ecologists and flood risk specialists, ensuring necessary resources, budgets and controls are in place to meet programme and budget requirements.
* Identify the need for, plan and implement complex monitoring and field work such as water quality monitoring, flow gauging, hydromorphological surveys, PWS investigations.
* Support delivery of high‑quality water science consultancy and advisory services to internal and external clients, including through check and review processes.
* Develop technically robust and pragmatic solutions to complex water science issues.
* Communicate effectively with the Water Environment Team, projects and clients.
* Engage proactively with statutory stakeholders to resolve matters and ensure agreement on scopes of work, mitigation.
* Support production of Water Environment Impact Assessments for Environmental Statements, WFD/WER Compliance Assessments, Nutrient Neutrality Assessments, various management plans and secondary consent applications.
* Author or technically check project deliverables to ensure high‑quality outputs.
Recent Projects
* Water environment impact assessment of large solar farms in the UK.
* Water science services for carbon capture technology developments and cross‑country pipelines.
* Complex water quality monitoring for a pumped‑storage hydro scheme in Highland’s loch.
* Technical support during secondary consent applications for major energy and highway projects.
* Water science constraints and opportunities analysis for master‑planning of new residential developments and major infrastructure.
* WFD/WER assessments of various proposed infrastructure projects.
* Nutrient neutrality assessments for private developers and technical support to LPAs.
Qualifications
* Extensive experience undertaking Water Environment Impact and WFD/WER assessments.
* Experience across a range of infrastructure types, planning regimes (e.g. DCO, TCPA), and project stages (feasibility, planning, detail design, construction, post‑construction).
* Technical specialist in water science, hydrogeology, hydromorphology, etc.
* Ability to write proposals and develop scope for relevant surveys, monitoring and assessments.
* Experience of water relevant permits, licences, consents and/or nutrient neutrality assessments beneficial.
Benefits
Enjoy a flexible hybrid working model, career development opportunities, AECOM University, volunteering days and a broad range of core and personalised benefits.
Equal Opportunity
We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation, please contact ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com.
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