Senior/Principal Flood Risk Consultant

ZipRecruiter; Stockport; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading environmental consultancy is seeking a Senior or Principal Flood Risk & Drainage Consultant to lead their Water Environment team. The successful candidate will manage client projects focused on flood risk and drainage issues, providing innovative solutions and mentoring junior staff. This role offers a flexible work environment and an attractive benefits package, including an unlimited training budget and profit share scheme.

Benefits

Discretionary profit share scheme

Generous annual leave entitlement

Additional day's birthday leave

Unlimited training budget

Paid volunteer days

Enhanced contributory pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Healthcare scheme

Monthly well-being allowance

Qualifications

• Experience of flood risk assessment, flood modelling, and SUDs design.
• Enthusiastic commitment to sustainable consultancy.
• Experience in a commercial consultancy role.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the water environment team.
• Identify solutions to client problems.
• Prepare tenders and quotes.

Skills

Flood risk assessment

Flood modelling

SUDs design

Report writing

Project management

Client management

Education

Degree in related subject

Job description

Job Description

As a Senior or Principal Flood Risk & Drainage Consultant you will lead and grow the Water Environment team to resolve your client’s flood risk and drainage issues, and to deliver environmentally positive solutions to their broader challenges.

About Our Client

Our client is a specialist and bespoke environmental and sustainability management consultancy whose purpose is to help their clients become more sustainable and realise the opportunities and benefits that this can bring to their businesses.

Flexibility

Our client believes that people achieve the most when they can work in a manner that works best for them and have a genuinely flexible approach to work in terms of both hours and location. They want you to maintain your work/life balance to find an approach that works best for all. If you are the right person for them, they will try to make it work.

Job Purpose

As a Senior / Principal Flood Risk & Drainage Consultant, your role will be to lead and grow the Water Environment team through winning and delivering high quality work for clients by supporting them in resolving their flood risk and drainage issues, including flood modelling and design of SUDs and natural flood management projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the water environment team
• Identifying solutions to client problems
• Flood risk assessment and scheme design
• Preparation of tenders and quotes
• Project management
• Represent the company to clients, suppliers and prospects
• Provide mentoring support and training to junior colleagues
• Reviewing technical work

Requirements

• Degree in related subject, and / or relevant professional experience
• Experience of flood risk assessment and flood modelling, natural flood management and SUDs design
• Enthusiastic commitment to the role of consultancy in improving environmental and sustainability outcomes whist being sensitive to and considerate of needs of clients, colleagues and other stakeholders
• Experience within a commercial consultancy role.
• Pro-active solution focused
• Flexible approach to work, ability to work on multiple projects
• Excellent report writing skills

Benefits

• Discretionary profit share scheme
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Additional day's birthday leave
• Unlimited training budget with your training plan
• 3 paid volunteer days
• Enhanced contributory pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Healthcare scheme
• Monthly well-being allowance for you to spend as on a sport or activity of your choice