Hydrology Technical Specialist Ftc - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Environment Agency

Environment Agency

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Description

Number of jobs available- - Region- East Midlands, East of England, North East, North West, South East, South West, West Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber, National

City/Town
Birmingham, Blandford Forum, Exeter, Ipswich, Lincoln, Newcastle, Nottingham, Penrith, Sheffield, Wallingford, Warrington, Welwyn Garden City, West Malling, Various

Building/Site

Various

Grade

Staff Grade
Post Type
Fixed Term

Working Pattern

Full Time, Part Time

Role Type

Operational Delivery
Salary Minimum £37,462 prorata

Job description

Do you have a passion for protecting our precious water? Are you motivated by the chance to influence the way national water resources infrastructure is developed? If so, this may be the opportunity for you.

Water companies are developing a number of regionally and nationally important Strategic Resource Options (SROs) such as reservoirs and water transfers through an ambitious timeline to be construction ready by

Working with area and national technical specialists across the business and a range of stakeholders including RAPID, water companies and consultants, your role will involve leading technical water resources and hydrological assessment of SROs.

This role will involve ensuring a consistent approach is taken to hydrological monitoring and assessment, supporting assessments of water availability and reviewing the calibration, validation and outputs of hydrological models to understand future impact and operation of SROs.

This role will support progress of these large infrastructure projects through an ambitious development and planning timeline.

You will ensure that water resources assessments are fit for the future by keeping track of developments in water resources legislation, strategy and policy.

Your great communications skills and ability to build relationships quickly will help you excel in this role.
Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do.

You will be required to have an incident role and make yourself available to respond to incidents, or provide business continuity support during an incident.

This may attract an additional payment and full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role.

The team
In this technical role you will work with the National Appraisal Unit (NAU) to oversee the environmental assessments of strategic water resources supply options and provide timely, consistent and robust evidencebased recommendations to RAPID and other key stakeholders.

The role is part of a dispersed team and is not location constrained.

As well as being part of the NAU, the role will involve working as part of internal and external virtual teams along with RAPID.

Experience/skills required Highly motivated selfstarter/selflearner with good interpersonal skills and commitment to continuous improvement.
Experience of hydraulic and/or hydroecological modelling
Ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships.
Ability to identify potential problems and proactively innovate solutions
Adept at working both collaboratively, as part of a virtual team, and independently
Ability to handle multiple work streams and priorities
Contact and additional information
We offer flexible working with a mix of home and office working with this role based at one of our hub offices. The role will require some travel to other Environment Agency sites, external meetings and occasional overnight stays.