Hydrogeologist

Mott MacDonald; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Mott MacDonald seeks a hydrogeologist to join their Water Consultancy Division. As a key contributor, you will provide technical advice, analyze groundwater data, and support multidisciplinary projects aimed at improving water resources management. This role offers extensive opportunities for professional development and career growth within a forward-thinking environment.

Benefits

Pension matched up to 7%

Life insurance

Continuous development opportunities

Agile/flexible working

Enhanced parental leave

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Degree qualification in relevant disciplines.
• Professional consultancy experience in water resources is desirable.
• Understanding of health, safety, and environmental priorities.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical advice on groundwater topics.
• Contribute to bid writing across water resources and environmental sectors.
• Analyze data using tools like ArcGIS and Excel.

Skills

Communication

Problem Solving

Attention to Detail

Education

Degree in hydrology, geology, geography, mathematics, civil engineering

Postgraduate in hydrogeology or water resources management

Tools

ArcGIS

QGIS

Python

MODFLOW

Job description

Birmingham, United Kingdom / London, United Kingdom / Brighton, United Kingdom / Cambridge, United Kingdom / Leeds, United Kingdom / Sheffield, United Kingdom

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

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.

About the role
As a hydrogeologist, you will be part of a large team of water resources specialists, supporting and learning from our teams of asset planners and river, dam, pipeline and treatment engineers as they deliver a wide range of services for UK and international clients. Our groundwater experts work on a variety of projects for diverse clients, delivering services in public water supply, borehole construction, construction dewatering, groundwater quality, abstraction impact assessments, groundwater modelling, catchment conceptualisation and management.

Your input will help our project teams and clients to deliver complex multidisciplinary projects, resulting in strategic decisions and engineering solutions that you can be proud of. Whether it is minimising the impacts of abstraction on the environment, or ensuring the longevity of groundwater assets, your work will bring lasting benefits to local communities and the environment around the world.

You will be responsible for:
• Provision of technical advice across a wide range of groundwater topics including water quality, Water Framework Directive, geo-environmental and groundwater risk assessments.
• Contribution to bid and proposal writing across water resources, environmental and engineering sectors.
• Analysing data using tools such as ArcGIS, QGIS, Python, Microsoft Excel
• Producing high quality reports for clients

Alongside your technical role, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills in project management and business development through engaging with our clients.

Mott MacDonald combines heritage, vision and values into an ethos that encourages innovative thinking and career progression, whether technical, management or commercial/client-facing. With us, you will have control of your own career path and technical direction, which we will support by giving you the opportunities to work on diverse projects and to challenge the technical direction of our work.

We are looking for someone with great team spirit to become an integral part of our Water Resources service area, which brings together a wealth of knowledge and experience in hydrology, hydrogeology, water quality and associated disciplines.

Candidate specification
Essential criteria:
• Degree level qualification in hydrology, geology, geography, mathematics, civil engineering, or other related discipline
• Good communication and written skills
• Well organised and able to prioritise your own workload with minimal supervision
• Logical and pragmatic approach to problem solving, attention to detail and the motivation to innovate
• Understand the importance of prioritising health, safety and environmental issues

Desirable criteria:
• Post graduate level qualification in hydrogeology, water resources management or other related discipline.
• Professional consultancy experience in water resources
• Working towards chartership with an appropriate professional body (e.g. BGS, ICE, CIWEM).
• Knowledge of groundwater modelling software e.g. MODFLOW
• Knowledge of using ArcGIS, QGIS and Python

If you meet 80% or more of what we’re looking for, please still apply. Not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn’t know we need.

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at [e-mail] and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• Pension matched up to 7%
• Life insurance
• An annual professional institution subscription
• Continuous development opportunities – because we want you to thrive
• Agile/flexible working – because life isn’t 9-5
• Enhanced parental leave; shared parental leave policies – for parents and care givers
• Flexible benefits that suit you, including ability to buy/sell annual leave entitlement, cycle to work & interest free season ticket loans
• Wellbeing support including access to an independent Employer Assistance Scheme, wellbeing champions and access to learning and support resources
• Access to our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability and parents/carers communities

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.