Senior Flood Risk Management Consultant

3 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom AECOM Full time

Company Description
**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Job Description**:
Our established water resources and community infrastructure team in Edinburgh are looking to hire a Flood Risk Management Consultant.

As the leading supplier of flood risk management services in the UK, you will work alongside forward thinking and highly skilled individuals and have the responsibility of leading and shaping solutions for clients.

You will work on diverse flood risk management and development projects that deliver sustainable benefits to communities and the environment through a wide range of public and private sector clients.

**Role Responsibilities**:

- Undertake Flood Risk Assessments and Flood Mitigation Design with support from the wider team.
- Undertake 1D-2D fluvial hydraulic modelling commissions with support from the wider team.
- You will undertake technical work including: hydrological / hydraulic modelling; development and design of sustainable urban drainage systems; quality assurance of technical work; identification, design and appraisal of flood risk management options; river engineering design; and report writing.
- Take a proactive approach to managing client relationships, clarifying expectations, success criteria and outcome measures in order to meet their requirements and deliver successful projects.
- Nurture, stretch and develop graduate team members and junior colleagues.
- Support wider business lines to develop and strengthen internal AECOM cross-sector relationships.
- Assist with the preparation of bids and proposals.

**Qualifications**:
**Minimum Requirements**:

- Bachelors degree (or equivalent) in environmental/earth sciences or civil engineering.
- Knowledge of SFRA’s and FRA’s
- Technical expertise in 1D and 2D modelling (competent with one of the following industry standard software: ISIS / Flood Modeller, Estry and TUFLOW, Infoworks ICM, HEC-RAS);
- Technical expertise in GIS packages such as ARCGIS.

**Desirable Experience**:

- Experience of undertaking hydrological assessments using FEH based methodologies and other techniques.
- Knowledge and understanding of hydraulic behaviour and channel / flood risk management structures and how to replicate these in modelling software.
- Knowledge and understanding of Microdrainage and the development of Surface Water management strategies.
- Commercial awareness and the ability to support the team to deliver projects on time and budget.
- M.Sc. / Ph.D in relevant technical areas would be advantageous.
- Chartered through ICE or CIWEM.

Additional Information

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts - planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers - leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.

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