Principal Flood Risk Consultant

7 days ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Arcadis Full time
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Our Flood Risk and Hydrology team is looking for a Senior or Principal Flood Risk Consultant to join our team. We’ll make sure you get the experience and personalised learning support you need to take your career as far as you want it to go.

Arcadis are involved in some of the UK’s most complex and diverse projects that are technically demanding and offer considerable potential for learning and development. We lead on the delivery of a variety of schemes and are working closely with the regulators e.g. the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, as well as the UK’s key infrastructure providers (Network Rail, Highways England), Local Government and private developers/investors.

In addition to leading the development of flood risk models you will be required to undertake Project Management duties, liaising closely with the client and increasing Arcadis projects by maximising trade-up situations.

Collaborating, learning, thinking proactively and creatively forms the ethos of the team and a fundamental part of your role.

Role accountabilities:
Coordinating and managing modelling studies and flood risk projects
Produce and lead flood risk assessments
Supporting, developing and line managing junior team members
Resolving technical modelling issues on projects and advancing our technical expertise
Carrying out technical reviews of hydraulic models
Preparation of project proposals / bids / fee estimates
Managing components of projects, taking responsibility for personal time and resource management, and coordinating team members, managing subcontractors, quality assurance and client feedback and ensuring effective communication of any changes/modifications
Working in collaboration with other design disciplines to ensure the integrity of the overall project
Ensuring compliance in the components of the project for which you have responsibility, including drawings, reports, specifications, and studies
Building relationships with clients
Managing commercial aspects of projects (contract, invoicing, debt management, client management etc.)
Liaising with the Project Director or Manager and the client
Providing input to project teams, leading by example to achieve sector goals and championing quality and innovation.
Assisting and participating in developing yourself and other team members to their full potential

Qualifications & Experience:
As an experienced professional you will have received chartership with an appropriate body (CIWEM, ICE)
Fluvial flood modelling experience using industry-standard software such as ISIS / TUFLOW / ESTRY / FLOOD MODELLER PRO
Ability to manage commercial aspects of projects
Ability to lead and carryout Flood Risk Assessments and an in-depth knowledge of UK flood risk policy (NPPF and TAN15)
Desired: Experience in working on hydrological studies using UK hydrological methodologies (i.e. Flood Estimation Handbook)
Desired: Experience of Surface Water Management Plans and SuDS
Desired: Experience in water resource assessments, undertaking Environmental Impact Assessments and preparing Environmental Statements

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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