Senior/Principal Consultant - Surface Water Quality
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Job Description
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Your new role, what's involved?
We need people to join our rapidly expanding team of Water Quality and Catchment Management specialists so that we can continue to deliver sustainable solutions to the water sector and environmental regulators in the UK and help protect the water environment.
* With a background in earth sciences and working knowledge of water quality and geochemistry / environmental chemistry you should be aware of the UK situation with regard to:
* How river, lake and TraCs water quality is protected through the WFD and other regulatory tools;
* Be aware / have working knowledge of water quality modelling tools (SAGIS SIMCAT, InfoWorks, ICM etc.).
* Experience of WFD/EIA scoping, reviews and assessments for water/hydrology chapters.
* Experience of water environment data collation (field and/or desk based), quality checking and assurance and interpretation.
* Experience of water quality permitting and completion or review of H1 and RQP assessments.
* Demonstrate understanding of how to conceptualise a water quality problem and knowledge of the available datasets which can be used in problem solving.
Prior work experience, either postdoctoral or in consultancy or working in the water sector (regulator or industry) would be desirable.
You should have an interest in problem solving through interrogation of time series and spatial datasets, good conceptualisation skills and understand the important of source pathway receptor models and be able to clearly communicate ideas either through your writing or visualisations. An awareness of how groundwater and surface water interact would also be useful.
Field experience including sampling network design, risk assessment before field work, and data collation and interpretation (for river and / or groundwater sampling and monitoring) would also be beneficial and some knowledge of catchment management / agri-environment schemes.
Key Responsibilities
* Water quality data analysis, conceptualisation and visualisation and clear communication;
* Carrying out desk-based investigations / interpretation of datasets;
* Helping to design field monitoring campaigns including traditional and non-traditional approaches;
* Delivery of technical reports and presentations to clients;
* Winning new work and writing proposals for new projects;
* Project and task management;
* Being a key member of our water quality team in Sustainable Water Management.
Qualifications and Requirements
* Degree-level qualifications in a relevant subject (e.g. geography, geology, geochemistry, earth/environmental science, civil engineering or similar).
* A higher degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. river or lake water quality, water chemistry, hydrogeochemistry, water management, environmental science, or similar), is desirable, but not essential.
* Excellent analytical skills, and ability to apply them to analysing problems and finding solutions to novel challenges.
* Experience in use of MS Office tools (Word, Teams, Excel, Access, Powerpoint) and use of GIS packages, such as ArcGIS or QGIS.
* Collaboration as part of a team and ability to work independently with some steer.
* Excellent communication skills, being able to write clearly and / or communicate ideas through visualisations.
About the team
Our Sustainable Water Management team works across a spectrum of services covering water quality and catchment management water resources and security, hydrology and hydraulics, geomorphology, hydroecology and hydrogeology. We provide high-quality technical services and advice to high-profile customers in the UK and overseas, including government departments and agencies, the water industry, and industrial sectors, including power, transport, nuclear, mining, commercial, and oil and gas.
This position is UK flexible, although our main offices for SWM teams are Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Cardiff, Manchester, Shrewsbury, London, Bristol or Glasgow offices and you will be able to benefit from hybrid office-home working.
EEO Statement
Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.
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