Hydrologist - Grade 5 - National - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Environment Agency

Environment Agency

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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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, Worthing, Various

Building/Site

Various

Grade

Staff Grade
Post Type
Permanent

Working Pattern

Full Time, Part Time/Job Share

Role Type

Operational Delivery

Salary Minimum £37,46

Job descriptionThis job will be right for you if you already have significant experience of the Environment Agency's Hydrology Service in Areas and would be interested in getting a national perspective. Alternatively you may have transferable skills and an interest in Hydrology that will complement our existing team.

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
Our team produces the regular national water situation reports, provides data analysis and advice at a national level to support flood and drought management as well as water resources regulation. We also support the Area based Hydrology Service for example: promoting best practise techniques, running a training programme and developing tools. We are a dispersed team based in different parts of the country we currently have staff in Reading, Wales and Exeter.

Experience/skills required

An understanding of hydrology is preferable including a related academic qualification however an indepth understanding of Hydrology is not essential if you have other strengths that would be helpful. You should be comfortable working with data and also interested in identifying and implementing improvements to our processes.

Training will be provided and we will continue to be available to help with any queries.

In fact that whole team is working on a wider approach to transforming data management of which you will be a part so you will be working collaboratively.

The team has a weekly 90 minute video call where we update each other on what we're doing.
We are particularly interested in what additional skills (beyond hydrology) you could bring to the role.

Please tell us by giving examples where possible in your competency answers as well as summarising them in the "technical skills section".

Contact and additional informationThe Environment Agency are fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share.