Principal HydroEcologist UK WIDE The Principal Hydroecologist role is an exciting opportunity to use your hydroecology expertise to assess the impact of abstraction for UK water companies. Principally, the role will focus on undertaking sustainability assessments under the Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP). You will bring demonstrable experience in low flow investigations focussing on the relationship between ecology and riverine flows. You will be familiar with Water framework Directive (WFD) standards and thresholds and use of the River Invertebrate Classification Tool (RICT) to interpret and classify ecological data. Expertise in designing and undertaking environmental surveys and interpreting outputs would be advantageous. In addition there will be opportunity for you to supporting assessment of ongoing Strategic Resource Option (SRO) projects, contributing to river restoration design and undertaking independent auditing of water company Performance Commitments. The ability to develop networks across disciplines within the business will set you apart from others. Our projects are complex in nature and you will be required to work with other disciplines to create effective solutions. This role will work alongside a dedicated team of experts in freshwater ecology, hydrology, hydrogeology and geomorphology to form an interdisciplinary team. * Extensive relevant industry experience, ideally specialising in hydroecology. * Experience in Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP) investigations or equivalent. * Demonstrable experience working on low flow investigations. * Ability to design ecological monitoring programmes. * Experience in analysing large environmental datasets, using statistics. * Application of Water Framework Directive standards and thresholds including classification of ecological monitoring data. - Experience in stakeholder engagement. * Chartered membership of a professional body (or sufficient experience to obtain chartership). In addition to the benefits you'd expect, UK employees also receive: * Up to 10% company contribution into their pension * Reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships * Opportunity to buy/sell annual leave. * Free employee medical cover and digital GP service * Enhanced parental leave pay * Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefit provided by Carrot. * Hybrid working * Part-time roles * Flexible working hours LI-Hybrid HydroEcology EcologistUK UKAquaticEcology LI-SR2 https://careers.jacobs.com/en_US/careers/JobDetail/20184 Birmingham|West Midlands|United Kingdom Glasgow|Lanarkshire|United Kingdom Leeds|West Yorkshire|United Kingdom Manchester|Greater Manchester|United Kingdom Wokingham|Berkshire|United Kingdom Cardiff|South Glamorgan|United Kingdom Norwich|Norfolk|United Kingdom London|Greater London|United Kingdom Environmental Environmental