Senior Hydraulic Modeller

Mott MacDonald; Reading; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Wastewater Hydraulic Modeller to join their innovative team. This role offers the chance to work on diverse wastewater infrastructure projects, from feasibility to detailed design, while mentoring the next generation of modellers. You'll collaborate closely with clients, ensuring they understand complex model outputs, and take on a technical lead role in project delivery. With a commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, this company provides an inclusive environment where your contributions will help shape the future of water management. Embrace this opportunity to advance your career in a supportive and dynamic setting.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Health Cash Plan

Wellbeing Support Program

Pension Contribution Matching

Life Assurance

Flexible Benefits

Minimum 33-35 Days Holiday

Professional Institution Subscription

Mentoring and Training Opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering wastewater modelling projects of varying sizes.
• Chartered with a relevant professional institution.

Responsibilities

• Deliver wastewater infrastructure projects and mentor graduate modellers.
• Collaborate with clients to ensure understanding of model outputs.

Skills

Team Collaboration

Wastewater Modelling

Client Engagement

Spreadsheet Data Analysis

Programming (VBA, Python)

Education

Chartered Professional Institution (ICE or CIWEM)

Tools

Innovyze ICM

GIS Packages (MapInfo)

MS Excel

PowerBI

Job description

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.

Overview of role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Wastewater Hydraulic Modeller to join our team of innovative and motivated network modellers, engineers and project managers, delivering projects across the UK. We are looking for a driven, experienced individual who wants to progress their career, with a desire to evolve within Mott MacDonald, and to mentor and develop others. As a Senior Modeller, you’ll provide key technical inputs on a diverse range of UK wastewater infrastructure projects, from feasibility through to detailed design.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Delivering wastewater infrastructure projects of varying sizes.
• Collaborating closely with our clients to ensure they understand model outputs and processes.
• Mentoring and training of graduate modellers and providing guidance to support their professional development.
• Specification and management of flow surveys.
• Undertaking a technical lead role of model build and verification projects.
• Contributing and checking technical reports and presentations.
• Developing technical calculation outputs when needed.
• Opportunity to project manage infrastructure projects, being responsible for programme, commercial performance and technical excellence.

A bit about the team

The Water Consultancy Division is the centre of excellence within Mott MacDonald for responding to water and wastewater delivery capability challenges, providing support to colleagues across our global business, and offering the best opportunities to get involved in diverse and technically challenging work. Our team continues to grow off the back of our sustained success in both the domestic and international water sector, for major utility companies and on high profile capital schemes.

Requirements

To be considered for this role you will require:

• Ability to be a team player and develop relationships at all levels.
• Working collaboratively with clients as delivery lead, planning and delivering wastewater modelling projects of varying sizes.
• Familiarity with Innovyze ICM and GIS packages (ideally MapInfo).
• Chartered with a relevant professional institution (i.e. ICE or CIWEM).
• Excellent skills in spreadsheet data analysis (i.e: using MS Excel pivot tables or PowerBI).
• Programming skills in languages such as VBA or Python would be advantageous.

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.

Benefits

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with everyday health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover and critical illness insurance.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring and training.

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