Senior / Principal Geomorphologist - Leeds, United Kingdom - Mott MacDonald

Mott MacDonald
Mott MacDonald
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Leeds, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Do you want to work for a company whose purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes, and to transform businesses, communities, and opportunities for its employees?


Your enthusiastic input will help our project teams and clients to deliver complex multi-disciplinary projects, resulting in sounds strategic decisions, engineering solutions that work with nature, and desirable social outcomes that you can be proud of.

Whether it is restoring rivers to make them more resilient to climate extremes, understanding risks from erosion to utilities and infrastructure, or finding ways to work with and emulate natural processes, your work will bring lasting benefits to local communities and the environment.

The role will be interesting, varied and offer fantastic opportunities for technical skill set and wider career development.


You will be responsible for:

  • Providing excellent geomorphological advice to assist concept, outline and detailed designs for work in river environments.
  • Prepare holistic plans for flood risk management, natural flood management and river restoration/habitat creation schemes.
  • Undertake field surveys to collect baseline information on river environments.
  • Developing innovations for data collection and interpretation in river and floodplain environments.
  • Lead environmental assessments relating to the water environment, with a focus on hydro morphology (e.g. Water Framework Regulations).
  • Prepare calculations and reports for erosion risk assessments and design of mitigation measures.
  • Contribute to technical mentoring and professional development of the team, developing and maintaining client relationships, attending conferences, writing articles or thought leadership pieces and networking across the industry.
  • River restoration and channel design.
  • Technical erosion and deposition risk analysis and problemsolving.
  • Asset management.
  • Water Resources.
  • Infrastructure design.
  • Environmental Assessments.

Essential:

  • Relevant degreelevel qualifications (e.g. geography, geomorphology, environmental sciences, hydrology, catchment science or other related disciplines).
  • Chartered with an appropriate professional body.
  • Proven track record in successful delivery of applied river geomorphology projects of varying complexity, including field and deskbased approaches.
  • Understanding of water environment legislation.
  • Numerate, with skills and interest in environmental data analysis.
  • Able to support and mentor junior staff, interpersonal skills to work successfully in a dynamic environment across multidisciplinary teams.

Desirable:

  • Wider water quality, aquatic ecology or hydrology interest to complement geomorphological skills.
  • Willingness to innovate.

Job Profile

  • With increasing awareness of changing climate on the environment, infrastructure and communities, the importance of understanding how we can work with natural processes in river catchments is vital. We are challenged to think more holistically and tackle increasingly complex technical issues to sustain resilient natural and built environments.
  • About the business unit
  • Environmental and social considerations are central to Mott MacDonald's Purpose and its offerings across all sectors and territories. Our environment and social business provides essential services and innovative solutions which anticipate our clients' needs across all sectors.
  • How to apply


Did you know that Mott MacDonald is one of the world's largest employee-owned businesses? This means that we are not accountable to external stakeholders and are in control of our own future.

This creates a unique culture where decisions are made for the benefit of the staff/company over the long term.


We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor's top 25 employers to work for in the UK in 2023, as well as being recognised by the Financial Times and market and consumer data company Statista as one of the UK's leading and highly recommended management consultants in: Construction & Infrastructure, Energy, Utilities & Environment, Public & Social Sector, Sustainability, and Travel, Transport & Logistics.


We offer some fantastic benefits including:

  • Pension matched up to 7%
  • Life insurance
  • An annual professional institution subscription
  • Continuous development opportunities because we want you to thrive
  • Agile/flexible working because life isn't 9
  • Enhanced parental leave; shared parental leave policies for parents and care givers
  • Annual bonus scheme
  • Flexible benefits that suit you, including ability to buy/sell annual leave entitlement, cycle to work & interest free season ticket loans
  • Wellbeing support including access to an independent Employer Assistance Scheme, wellbeing champions and access to learning and support resources
  • Access to our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability and parents/carers communities
  • The opportunity to make a difference; lear
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