Senior Clean Water (Hydraulic) Modeller

RPS; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Clean Water Modeller to join their dynamic team in Edinburgh. This role offers the opportunity to work on prestigious water engineering projects, contributing to the development of innovative solutions that will positively impact communities. You'll collaborate with a skilled team, engage in technical development, and ensure compliance with client specifications. With a commitment to personal development and a transparent career pathway, this position promises a fulfilling career in a supportive environment. If you're passionate about making a difference in the water industry, this is the role for you.

Benefits

Personal development plan

Flexible working hours

Health and wellness programs

Collaborative work environment

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering complex water engineering projects.
• Ability to guide junior team members and collaborate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Deliver clean water modelling projects across various workstreams.
• Prepare technical reports and maintain client relationships.

Skills

Water Engineering

Network Analysis

Communication Skills

Team Collaboration

Technical Reporting

Education

Degree in a relevant technical subject

Postgraduate qualifications

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

GIS Systems (MapInfo, ArcGIS, QGIS)

InfoWorks WS Pro

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Join our Clean Water (Hydraulic) Modelling Team and you will work on a prestigious SR21 Technical Consultancy Framework driven by Scottish Water approach to utilise, maintain and construct their hydraulic modelling library.

We are looking for Senior Hydraulic Modellers at all levels to support a wide spectrum of water programmes in areas such as optioneering, outline/detailed design and asset condition assessment.

You will work within a skilled hydraulic team to support our design team, carry out zonal studies along with creating solutions for water engineering projects. This programme of work will continue into SR27 and beyond, securing your career for the years ahead.

About The Team

RPS Water Consulting is a team of Engineers, Modellers, and Data Analysts providing Asset Management and Operational Strategy development, to our Water Industry clients to support business planning and delivery. This is an evolving industry, providing challenges and opportunities that require innovation, dedication, and teamwork to help us meet our clients’ needs.

Our Water Consultancy business has a range of prestigious AMP8 programmes leading into AMP9 and beyond, where you’ll be securing your career for the next 20 years, leaving a lasting legacy!

About You

As a key member of the Water Consultancy business, your role as a Senior Clean Water Modeller is critical to helping us deliver great projects for our Water Industry clients. You will be working alongside a multi-disciplinary team of water project experts on a range of capital delivery projects.

You will have a substantial opportunity to contribute towards optioneering, outline, and detailed design expertise across various frameworks. Our scope of work encompasses a wide range of technically demanding projects in the field of Wastewater Infrastructure.

By joining us, you're not just taking on exciting projects and collaborating with leading minds. You're making a meaningful impact on millions of lives the UK, leaving a legacy for generations to come. As a valuable member of our team, you'll play a crucial role in the water industry, and work with the largest water companies in the region, ensuring a positive and enduring influence on the communities we serve. If you're ready to contribute your skills and expertise to a dynamic and innovative environment, we invite you to join us on this exciting journey.

Your Responsibilities

• Technical development and delivery of clean water modelling projects, being involved in all workstreams including scoping, model build, model maintenance, zonal and growth studies, design support
• Preparing technical and analytical reports
• Being part of multi-discipline project teams to build, maintain and manage strong and collaborative working relationships with clients and wider RPS/Tetra Tech disciplines
• Responsibility for technical delivery and guidance of junior team members
• Holding client meetings
• Ensuring quality of outputs and compliance with client specifications
• Awareness of and compliance with all health and safety, quality and environmental aspects of projects
  
  

Skills, Knowledge, And Experience

• Expertise in water engineering and network analysis, helping to deliver specialist, complex or innovative projects, ensuring client and design standards are specification compliance and production of quality plans.
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team, including technical guidance of less experienced colleagues.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively with clients.
• Working knowledge of Primavera P6 or MS Project.
• Working knowledge of GIS Systems (MapInfo, ArcGIS, QGIS).
• Experience using InfoWorks WS Pro, Synergi or similar water modelling package.
• Coding experience is not essential but desirable (Ruby, Python etc)
  
  

Qualifications

• Preferably degree qualified in a relevant technical subject. Postgraduate qualifications are an advantage.
• Charterership or working towards chartership for Senior or Principal grades.
• Affiliation with a professional institution like IET, InstMC, or CIWEM, or in the process of working towards membership and nearing application.
• Hold a full clean driving licence. Travelling to the site and client and/or other RPS/Tetra Tech offices may be required.
  
  

What’s in it for you?

A personal development plan and a transparent career pathway puts you in the driving seat of your career and you’ll be supported as far as you want to go.

We encourage and value different ideas, perspectives, and styles of thinking. We need a mix of experiences and skills to develop the most innovative ideas. We respect one another and recognise the potential and contribution of everyone. You’ll be joining a diverse community and a company that puts its people first and prioritises their well-being.

A career here is far from ordinary. Here you’re not a number, you are part of the solution.

Why RPS?

We’re a connected community, working together to achieve exceptional outcomes. We understand the need to work flexibly, empowering our people to create a work-life balance that’s right for them. We also understand the importance of collaboration and social connection in the office environment. With agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we trust our people to find the right balance to meet client needs – this is a workplace that works for you.

About RPS, a Tetra Tech Company

RPS, part of Tetra Tech since January 2023, is a global firm that defines, designs, and manages projects in urbanisation, natural resources, and sustainability. As part of Tetra Tech’s 28,000-strong team across 550 offices in over 120 countries, we deliver solutions that create lasting value in an increasingly urbanised and resource-scarce world. By leveraging our global expertise, we enable our clients to develop winning solutions for their clients and communities.

As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to provide market-leading development and project opportunities for our people, supporting their growth while addressing the challenges that matter. Our people drive our success, and this is where you come to build a career.

Come and join our team and truly make a difference in the future of water!

We know we develop better solutions together. That’s why we’re committed to ensuring Fairness, Inclusivity, and Respect in all that we do. For us to live our purpose of creating shared value and to deliver on our promise to ‘make complex easy’ – for us and for our clients, we continue to build a culture where different working styles and experiences can thrive to achieve exceptional results.

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and work in partnership with Inclusive Employers. We’re also proud to support reservists and their families, having signed the Armed Forces Covenant. An inclusive culture enables our people to do things differently, working in ways to suit them while delivering their best for RPS. That’s why we’ve created working groups as true inclusion is a journey that involves learning, collaboration, and engagement.

Please let us know if you require any adjustments during the interview process, we can then make reasonable changes to support you in performing to the best of your ability.

Recruitment Agencies We have a Preferred Supplier List of trusted partners to assist us when required and do not acknowledge any speculative CVs or unsolicited candidate introductions from agencies not on this list. Please refer to the careers page on our website if you require any further information.

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