Principal Geomorphologist

Principal Geomorphologist

**Country**:United Kingdom**Position Location**:Leeds, UK / Cambridge, UK / Manchester, UK / Brist**Contract Type**:Permanent**Work Pattern**:Full Time**Sector**:Water**Discipline**:Water**Job Ref**:856**Recruiter Contact**:Tim Penlington**Mott MacDonald**
- We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
- Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.- A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.- We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.- Our values**:P**rogress, **R**espect, **I**ntegrity, **D**rive,** E**xcellence.**About the division**
The Water Consultancy Division is the centre of excellence within Mott MacDonald for responding to water and wastewater challenges, providing support to colleagues across our global business, and offering fantastic opportunities to get involved in diverse and technically challenging work.
- Climate change, aging assets, and population growth place increasing pressure on our water and wastewater assets. Our highly successful water consultancy business is servicing ever-increasing demands from water sector clients to help deliver ambitious capital programmes. The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations and protecting our environment.- With sustainability, social impacts, digitalisation, and carbon reduction in mind, our diverse and multi-disciplinary teams work together to provide a variety of services throughout the full project life-cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies, through outline and detailed design, to construction support and site supervision.**Job Profile**
- Do you want to work for a company whose purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes, and to transform businesses, communities, and opportunities for its employees?-
- Your enthusiastic input will help our project teams and clients to deliver complex multi-disciplinary projects, resulting in sounds strategic decisions, engineering solutions that work with nature, and desirable social outcomes that you can be proud of. Whether it is restoring rivers to make them more resilient to climate extremes, understanding risks from erosion to utilities and infrastructure, or finding ways to work with and emulate natural processes, your work will bring lasting benefits to local communities and the environment.- The role will be interesting, varied and offer fantastic opportunities for technical skill set and wider career development.- You will be responsible for:
- Providing excellent geomorphological advice to assist concept, outline and detailed designs for work in river environments.
- Prepare holistic plans for flood risk management, natural flood management and river restoration/habitat creation schemes.
- Undertake field surveys to collect baseline information on river environments.
- Developing innovations for data collection and interpretation in river and floodplain environments.
- Lead environmental assessments relating to the water environment, with a focus on hydro morphology (e.g. Water Framework Regulations).
- Prepare calculations and reports for erosion risk assessments and design of mitigation measures.
- Contribute to technical mentoring and professional development of the team, developing and maintaining client relationships, attending conferences, writing articles or thought leadership pieces and networking across the industry.- River restoration and channel design.
- Technical erosion and deposition risk analysis and problem-solving.
- Asset management.
- Water Resources.
- Infrastructure design.
- Environmental Assessments.

**Essential**:

- Relevant degree-level qualifications (e.g. geography, geomorphology, environmental sciences, hydrology, catchment science or other related disciplines).
- Chartered with an appropriate professional body.
- Proven track record in successful delivery of applied river geomorphology projects of varying complexity, including field and desk-based approaches.
- Understanding of water environment legislation.
- Numerate, with skills and interest in environmental data analysis.
- Able to support and mentor junior staff, inter-personal skills to work successfully in a dynamic environment across multi-disciplinary teams.

**Desirable**:

- Wider water quality, aquatic ecology or hydrology interest to complement geomorphological skills.
- Willingness to innovate.

**Equality, diversity, and inclusion**
- We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression