Wastewater Modellers - Consultant to Associate Director Grades
Job Description
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We are looking for Wastewater Modellers to join our established team to deliver a variety of projects for several of the UK's largest regulated water companies. Our water team also works alongside a diverse range of other WSP business units, providing great opportunities to be involved in an assortment of exciting projects alongside delivering for our core client base.
We have roles available from Consultant up to Associate Director grade and are flexible on location across our UK offices.
These roles will enable you to further develop and use your technical skills, applying your expertise to help us continue driving forward in terms of both technical quality and service efficiency.
A little more about your role...
You will provide support on hydraulic modelling studies for our core regulated industry water clients using industry standard software (InfoWorks ICM/CS), but we also have teams engaged in a variety of projects utilising TUFLOW, causeway flow, our in-house FRM and other hydraulic modelling software depending upon our diverse base of clients' needs.
You will be expected to work within the existing team to interrogate/enhance models as well as building new models to assess and understand asset performance.
Key duties will include:
* Provide technical input on urban drainage projects and support our wastewater team in delivering current and future projects and help influence our future approaches to efficient delivery.
* Support the development of feasibility studies and optioneering.
* Use of network models to evaluate and optimise asset performance.
* Preparation of reports and supporting drawings.
* Definition of work needed by field investigation teams.
* Developing and maintaining excellent client relationships at all levels, coordinating and facilitating project meetings internally and with clients.
* Contribute to the learning of the wider team through knowledge sharing exercises.
* Promote the WSP brand through appropriate industry forums and conferences.
At the more Senior grades you will also:
* Support the team leads in managing project delivery, including supervision of tasks and review of deliverables.
* Develop the urban drainage modelling capability in the team, ensuring we are at the forefront of latest developments in the discipline, and provide training and development support to more junior members of the team.
* Exercise independent engineering judgement and have opportunities to provide innovative solutions to engineering problems. You will be a proactive and collaborative team member.
* Participate in business development and proposal preparation.
YOUR TEAM
* You will work as part of a dynamic and award-winning water team within a wider team of over 600 professionals across the UK supported by our Global Water Team and have the opportunity to shape the direction of a high performing, growing team.
* We are currently working across an expanding portfolio of work clients including Severn Trent Water, Northern Ireland Water, Welsh Water, Southern Water, Wessex Water, United Utilities, Uisce Éireann, Southern Water and Scottish Water Horizons.
* The opportunity to progress is a real possibility, combining your technical and industry knowledge with the right behaviours to encourage and develop others.
What we will be looking for you to demonstrate...
* A degree in a relevant discipline (engineering, environmental science, geography).
* A chartered membership of a relevant professional institution (e.g. ICE/CIWEM), or are working towards chartership.
* Sound knowledge and experience in urban drainage modelling and an ability to check the technical outputs of others prior to issue.
* Extensive experience of hydraulic modelling, using industry-standard software, specifically, InfoWorks ICM or similar.
* Familiarity with any industry-standard geographical information system (e.g. ArcGIS, QGIS, MapInfo).
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