Flood Risk Consultant

Job title: Flood Risk Consultant

Location: Coleshill, Exeter, Haywards Heath, Portsmouth

Salary: 35,000 to 50,000

Type: Full time, hybrid

The Role

Are you a flood risk consultant looking to be part of a successful and growing team? Are you looking to develop your career whilst contributing to sustainable development and the environment?

We are looking for experienced Flood Risk Consultants, at all grades above graduate, to join our growing development and flood risk-focused teams, providing site-specific and strategic flood risk advice to a wide range of clients involved in development, land use planning, and flood risk management projects. As well as offering the opportunity to join one of our established development and flood risk teams, the role also offers significant opportunities to work on a wide range of projects and alongside some of the UK's foremost technical experts in flood risk and water management.

You'll be joining an established environmental and engineering consultancy that puts sustainability and resilience to climate change at the heart of its company strategy. With offices in nine countries around the world and across the UK and Ireland, we like to think we make a difference. We are independent and employee-owned, allowing us the freedom to focus on innovation and our commitment to exceptional client service. Our workforce is central to our success, and we invest heavily in supporting staff development. We are great people to work for. Visit [website] to find out more about what we do.

Your Role

With appropriate consideration of a candidate's experience and seniority, responsibilities shall include:

• Directing, coordinating, and undertaking Flood Risk Assessments (England) in accordance with NPPF and/or Flood Consequence Assessment (Wales) in accordance with TAN15.
• Providing planning-related advice in relation to flood risk and drainage, for projects in England and Wales.
• Supporting and delivering technical assessments, utilising in-depth knowledge of hydraulic modelling and hydrological assessments.
• Developing solutions and assessing options for flood risk mitigation.
• Supporting, managing, or directing the delivery of high-quality projects to programme and budget requirements.
• Working closely and effectively with clients, design teams, and stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes.
• Preparing fee proposals and tenders, and undertaking business development activities.
• Supporting and mentoring junior staff.
• Fostering close working relationships with colleagues and clients, working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.

Location

We are principally seeking candidates happy to be based in one of our offices in Haywards Heath, Coleshill, Newport, or Exeter. We support agile working, which provides for greater flexibility in the way that we work.

The Team Member We're Looking For

The successful candidate will be dynamic, well organised, motivated, and flexible, with a passion for water and the environment and strong analytical and problem-solving skills. The right candidate will be an organised self-starter, who manages their own workload and that of others. They will be able to balance priorities, work on their own initiative, and be a pragmatic thinker.

Qualifications

Applicants should have a geography, science, or engineering-related qualification, degree or equivalent. Chartered status (CIWEM or ICE) is important to us and valued by our clients to demonstrate experience of working in the UK development and flood risk sector. Therefore, applicants should ideally be chartered or close to achieving chartership.

Essential Attributes for the Role

Core knowledge, skills, and experience should include the following:

• Experience of preparing and coordinating FRAs and/or FCAs.
• Knowledge of interpreting hydraulic model outputs, or using hydraulic modelling software such as Flood Modeller, TUFLOW, and HEC-RAS.
• Excellent knowledge and awareness of the UK planning process and policy.
• Effective technical report writing skills and verbal communication skills, to explain complex technical issues to non-specialists.
• Work winning skills and experience.
• Quality assurance and review expertise.
• Project management, including contract and commercial awareness.
• Familiarity with working in GIS and CAD formats.
• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office (e.g., Word/Excel).

Desirable Attributes for the Role

Desirable skills for the role include:

• Experience preparing outline drainage strategies.
• Experience in hydrological analysis using Flood Estimation Handbook methodologies.
• Mentoring skills.
• Team leadership skills.

Our Staff Benefits

• Flexible Working Hours Scheme
• Financial Benefits
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Health & Wellbeing Schemes
• Professional Development Budget
• Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme (UK only)

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.