Senior Flood Risk Consultant

Strata Construction Consulting; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction consulting firm is seeking a Senior Flood Risk Consultant to join their team in Manchester. The role includes managing flood risk assessments, collaborating with experts from various fields, and developing comprehensive flood risk management strategies. Candidates should have a relevant degree and a minimum of 5 years of experience. This position offers flexible working arrangements and the chance to work on a variety of significant projects in flood risk management.

Benefits

Private medical and dental cover

Life insurance

Profit sharing

Enhanced parental leave

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience as a flood risk consultant.
• Ability to assess and review surface water drainage strategies.
• Awareness of hydraulic modelling approaches.

Responsibilities

• Develop Flood Risk Assessment reports for various developments.
• Interpret flood data from environmental agencies.
• Communicate with civil engineers and external stakeholders.

Skills

Flood risk assessment

Hydrology studies

Surface water drainage strategies

Communication and liaison

GIS (QGIS / ArcGIS)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or related field

Master's degree in relevant subject

Tools

WINFAP

Job description

Are you looking for your next career step? Do you want the opportunity to work on a broad range of flood risk management projects, utilising your technical skills and experience to help support our clients with the development of their projects?

We are hiring for a Senior Flood Risk Consultant to join our client’s flagship London office. On a day-to-day basis their team are involved in writing Flood Risk Assessments, Flood Warning and Emergency Planning, Surface Water Drainage Design and Strategies as well as many wider flood risk management projects.

Current projects include preparing Flood Risk Assessments to support planning applications for residential, industrial, and commercial developers, developing surface water drainage design for Local Authority review.

What’s on offer

• Hybrid / Flexible working
• Benefit from private medical and dental cover
• Life insurance
• Being a part of an employee trust-owned company
• Annual profit sharing
• Opportunity to purchase company shares
• Holiday buy back scheme
• Enhanced maternity, adoption, and paternity pay
• Various networks to connect
• Diverse and challenging projects to work on.
• Employee Assistance Program
• Voluntary critical illness cover
• Retail Discounts
• Financial wellbeing

The role

• As a key member of our Flood Risk and Hydraulic Modelling team you will have the opportunity to work on a range of projects including both urban and rural flood risk, nature-based solutions, hydrology and hydro-geomorphology.
• Our team encompasses a range of different skill sets all designed to help clients understand, assess, mitigate, and manage flood risk and at strategic and specific levels.
• Assessment of Flood Risk to support the development of Flood Risk Assessments and Surface Water Drainage Strategies and assessing all sources of flood risk.
• Interpret flood data from the Environment Agency, SEPA and Natural Resources Wales and from hydraulic modelling studies.
• Develop Flood Risk Assessment reports for a range of sizes and complexities of developments independently, including larger NSIP developments which are undertaken within the DCO / EIA process
• Communication and liaison with other disciplines across the business for example, civil engineers, geomorphologists, and ecologists.
• Communication and liaison with clients, external stakeholders including the Environment Agency, LLFAs and IDBs.

What you need to succeed

• Bachelor's degree in an appropriate analytical subject (e.g. Civil Engineering, Environmental Science, Water Resources, Geography).
• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience as a flood risk consultant.
• Ability to assess and review surface water drainage strategies and calculations.
• Experience in hydrology studies and the use of hydrological estimation software (e.g. WINFAP).
• Awareness of hydrology & hydraulic modelling approaches and relevance to flood risk assessment.
• Flexibility to work concurrently across different projects, activities and locations.
• Master's degree in appropriate subject.
• Chartered, or working towards, chartership with CIWEM, ICE or other similar relevant body / institution (or progressing structured training scheme in relevant discipline)
• GIS experience in QGIS and / or ArcGIS.
• Experience with the planning process, especially DCO applications / EIA, and dealing with Private Developers