Senior Hydrologist: Flood Risk & Water Environment

SLR Consulting; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary with discretionary,

Company pension

Private medical insurance

Life, income and travel insurance

Salary sacrifice car lease and cycle‑2

Flexible, hybrid and agile working

25 days' annual leave

Buy or sell leave options

Core working hours

Cross-border remote working and sabbat

Enhanced maternity, paternity and adop

Workplace Nursery

Volunteering and Community Giving

Employee Assistance Programme

Mental health and wellbeing support

Job summary

SLR Consulting is seeking an experienced Hydrologist to join our Flood Risk and Water Environment team, delivering high-profile UK projects for public and private sector clients. The role can be Associate to Technical Director level, with hybrid or flexible working across the UK.

You’ll lead hydrological assessments, mentor juniors and help shape our hydrology capability while collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams across Environmental and Earth Sciences, Planning and Engineering.

Qualifications

• Extensive consultancy experience leading, reviewing and signing off hydrological assessments for flood risk and water environment projects.
• A degree in Civil Engineering, Geography, Environmental Science or a related discipline.
• Chartered status, or working towards chartership, with CIWEM, ICE or a similar professional body.
• Strong experience delivering hydrological assessments to support flood risk and hydraulic modelling projects.
• Advanced knowledge of UK hydrological methods and industry guidance, including FEH, ReFH2, WINFAP and LowFlows.
• Experience deriving design flows and hydrological inputs for fluvial modelling and flood risk studies.
• Experience preparing and reviewing Flood Risk Assessments (FRAs) and Strategic Flood Risk Assessments (SFRAs).
• Good understanding of UK flood risk policy, planning guidance and climate change allowances.
• Experience liaising with the Environment Agency, SEPA, Natural Resources Wales, LLFAs and other key stakeholders.
• Experience using GIS software such as ArcGIS Pro or QGIS.
• Excellent technical reporting, reviewing and quality assurance skills.
• Experience undertaking Culvert Assessment Studies using CIRIA guidance.
• Experience mentoring and developing junior staff.
• Strong project management, stakeholder engagement and client relationship skills.
• The ability to manage multiple projects, priorities and client relationships simultaneously.
• Willingness to undertake occasional site visits, catchment walkovers and stakeholder meetings across the UK.

Responsibilities

• Leading the delivery, review and quality assurance of hydrological assessments for flood risk and water environment projects.
• Mentoring and supporting the development of junior colleagues.
• Developing and improving technical approaches, tools and methodologies.
• Preparing fee proposals and contributing to project planning and resource management.
• Building and maintaining trusted relationships with clients, regulators and key stakeholders.
• Contributing to business development activities and supporting the continued growth of our flood risk and water environment services.
• Undertaking desk-based technical work alongside occasional site visits, catchment walkovers and stakeholder meetings across the UK.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Project management

Client relationships

Technical reporting

GIS

Education

Degree in Civil Engineering, Geography, Environmental Science or related discipline

Tools

ArcGIS Pro

QGIS

Flood Modeller

TUFLOW

InfoWorks ICM

Job description

SLR Consulting is seeking an experienced Hydrologist to join our Flood Risk and Water Environment team, delivering high-profile UK projects for public and private sector clients. The role can be Associate to Technical Director level, with hybrid or flexible working across the UK.

You’ll lead hydrological assessments, mentor juniors and help shape our hydrology capability while collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams across Environmental and Earth Sciences, Planning and Engineering.