Associate / Associate Director of Water Engineering

We are currently partnered with a leading and truly global multidisciplinary engineering consultancy as they look to add an Associate or Associate Director of Water Engineering to their divison in London.

Their Water team undertakes a wide variety of major and challenging infrastructure projects for the private and public sector, across a range of development sectors. We seek to provide integrated flood risk and drainage solutions incorporating state of the art design across rivers, coastal and surface water problems.

Their current portfolio includes a broad spectrum of projects across the water sector from flood alleviation schemes (FAS) for local authorities, such as the Derby Riverside FAS, the MOD and private sector clients through to surface water separation schemes for water utility providers. For example, they have recently been successful across a number of commission with United Utilities supporting them on their Better Rivers programme to reduce CSO spills across the north west of England. They are embedded with a number of high-profile housing developers and support them from site inception through to masterplaining, design and construction on their flood risk challenges, including design of natural flood risk management and Sustainable Urban Drainage solutions.

Their varied client and project base provides their team exciting challenges to continuingly improve their skills and knowledge across the sector. As a project leader, you will guide their teams and support their clients in the delivery of the portfolio as well as support bidding and proposition activity as they continue to grow the team.

The consultancy requires an experienced individual of high calibre to lead projects for the Water Engineering across a range of activities such as river, coastal and flood defence appraisal and design, hydraulic modelling and hydrology assessment, surface water management and the development of business cases. They work across a diverse range of clients delivering challenging infrastructure projects for the private and public sector.

In terms of scale, their projects can range from £10k commissions up to £100m schemes covering flood risk projects for defence, transport, local government, utility, infrastructure, commercial, industrial and residential development. You will work independently and proactively on technical aspects from a project's inception, determining client briefs, to the delivery and close out of projects in accordance with best practice.

You will lead projects and support junior colleagues throughout the delivery of projects, including client facing and leadership roles. You will instruct, supervise and mentor junior staff in the design and management of schemes and work with clients to ensure delivery of projects to time and cost, and to help manage change.

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate some or all the requirements below:

• Be an enthusiastic professional who likes a challenge
• Want to work in a busy and growing team and have a desire to progress their career
• Have experience in the delivery and leading flood risk and/or surface water separation projects from solution development, optioneering and design in line with the relevant guidance.
• Have experience in strategic catchment planning and decision making.
• Experience in writing reports and presenting to internal and external partners.
• Experienced in creating, developing and leading collaborative client relationships.
• Experienced in working across and leading multidisciplinary teams to delivery projects efficiently and effectively, such as with hydraulic modellers, engineers and environmental consultants.
• Experience in IT systems such as ArcGIS, AutoCAD, Civils 3D and the Microsoft Office suite.
• Be educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant field and Chartered with the ICE or CIWEM.
• Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work independently, a collaborative approach and a proven ability to deliver work on time.
• Experience in bidding for work and developing new client propositions.
• Have the ability to mentor, encourage and support junior team members.
• Hold a full UK Driving License.
• Security Clearance to minimum SC level preferable (or be suitable and willing to apply for clearance).

Company benefits include hybrid working, 25 days of annual leave + your birthday off, group life assurance (nine times basic salary), paid professional fees, a health cash plan, the opportunity to buy and sell annual leave, plus numerous corporate discounts.

This is a unique opportunity that is not to be missed. If you think your experience matches up well, please click apply or reach out to Jamie Will at Calibre Search.

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