Job title:   Principal or Associate Water Environment Consultant
Location:  Bristol or Gloucestershire

Opportunity for a Principal or Associate Water Environment Consultant to take up a leadership position within a growing Water Environment team, based out of Bristol or Gloucestershire.

As a Principal or Associate within the Water Environment team, you will manage/ deliver hydraulic modelling to support nature-based solutions, Flood Risk Assessment and drainage design. Current projects cover a wide range of works; land promotion, inner city regeneration, climate change resilience, residential development, supporting local authorities in utilising natural flood management techniques to alleviate flood risk and more wider planning support.

A key part of the role is in collaboration with other disciplines to deliver integrated designs to maximise solutions.

You will work closely with the national discipline Director, with the opportunity for career progression, now and particularly as we continue to realise our growth plans over the coming months and years.

Overview

A philosophy that is simple: "we invest in our people and build partnerships with our stakeholders, resulting in a dynamic and successful business that benefits everyone". As a multidisciplinary engineering and environmental consultancy, our outputs contribute to the built environment we all occupy. Our four values include ‘living our best life’ and ‘celebrating our team’, and we provide oodles of opportunity to do just that.

Your role

• High quality project delivery, including Flood Risk Assessments, Flood Evacuation Management Plans, Environment Impact Assessment Chapters, Drainage Strategies and Technical Notes to support planning applications.
• Contributing to the quality of the team/ companywide outputs.
• Quality assurance checks of technical work for more junior colleagues.
• Assist with the day-to-day leadership and management of a team of consultants.
• Identify opportunities for growth within new sectors and project locations.
• Engaging stakeholders, external project team members and clients.
• Generate regular project enquiries and opportunities for high quality project work (stimulating for you and the team and at desired profitability).
• Undertake site visits.

 The experience and profile we are seeking

• Currently or recently operating as an experienced Senior/ Principal or Associate level Water Environment Consultant in the UK.
• Collaborative approach, with good people skills and able to communicate effectively with clients, stakeholders and colleagues.
• Commercial awareness to deliver projects to time and budget.
• Knowledge of UK hydrological methodologies and flood risk management policy.
• Working knowledge of relevant software tools to include some/all of HEC-RAS, HEC-2D, Flood Modeller-TUFLOW, Infoworks-ICM, ArcGIS, AutoCAD.
• Experience in bidding for work and developing new client propositions.
• Ability to mentor, encourage and support junior team members.
• Full UK Driving License.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent and probably Chartered with the ICE or CIWEM (desirable).

Rewarding you

• A competitive salary, dependant on experience.
• Industry-leading annual leave: 25 days, plus your birthday, plus the period between Christmas and New Year, and an additional day for every three years’ service up to an additional five days
• 4% contribution towards your company pension.
• Life assurance.
• Access to the Company’s wellbeing package, including a Cycle2work scheme, paid charity days and social events at the end of the financial year, Summer, and Christmas.

For further information on this or any other related positions do not hesitate to contact Peter on 07881788772 or peter@huphuphup.com

Our industry knowledge ensures a unique, valued and specialist service. We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community and offer every assurance that your application will be handled with the highest levels of professionalism.  For Further Information on Hup Consulting visit www.huphuphup.com