Rainwater Management Senior Technical Lead

4 months ago


Warrington, United Kingdom United Utilities Full time

We have an exciting opportunity to become part of a dedicated team driving forward Rainwater Management design, technical and specialist drainage related activities at United Utilities. You'll inspire, motivate and influence technical change within the business driving Rainwater Management solutions into our ways of working, leveraging multiple benefits for the North West and delivering best value for operations and our customers. You'll represent United Utilities on technical related activity for a defined programme including capital projects, operational support and strategic studies.

**Job Accountabilities**:
You'll be responsible for Providing design & technical expertise for Rainwater Management Solutions, including all Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) and Nature Based Solutions (NBS) where components can include, but are not limited to; Swales, Rills, Soakaways, Bio-retention systems, Green Roofs, Raingardens, Tree Pits, Ponds and Wetlands, Basins, Infiltration Trenches, Filter Drains, Permeable Paving, Rainwater Harvesting, Reed Beds and Surface Water Separation. Through design you'll maximise the multiple environmental, social and economic benefits to United Utilities and our partners in the North West, including supporting a Natural Capital approach. You'll also be responsible for:

- Leading on the technical delivery and design management of projects and in-service support within budget and programme to all internal clients
- Driving UU to be more innovative and efficient in the delivery of our Rainwater Management interventions, exploring ways to speed up delivery and make solutions more affordable
- Being a point of technical escalation to drive timely decisions to enable the Project Teams to proceed.
- Working across multi-disciplinary Rainwater Management technical teams; capable of investigating and designing a wide number of interventions that use a combination of multi-functional drainage components that collect, infiltrate, convey, store, treat and control runoff prior to discharge.
- Exploring additional ways that managing rainwater better across the system e.g. Rainwater Harvesting to reduce water consumption, Reed Beds to help water quality and Surface water separation to reduce flooding/spills.
- Maintaining an active dialogue with internal stakeholders and external stakeholders, responding to feedback appropriately, to maximise internal and external customer satisfaction.
- Developing and delivering Rainwater Management transformation related activities
- Managing relationships with Design Partners and Delivery Partners

**Knowledge and Skills**:
To be considered for this role you'll need to hold a Degree or equivalent qualification in an environmental or relevant technical discipline and experience in delivering capital and strategic projects and providing technical expertise, design management and guidance. You'll possesses practical and theoretical knowledge of Rainwater Management interventions, including Sustainable drainage expertise (SuDS) & Nature Based Solutions (NBS), but also a good understanding of Drainage, Flood Risk and the Water Industry in general. You'll also have:

- Significant passion to deliver Rainwater Management and green/blue solutions
- Technical expertise and experience in the planning aspects of Rainwater Management solutions
- Knowledge of the multi-disciplinary roles and activities required to deliver Rainwater Management in the Water industry, including but not limited too; Landscape architecture, Earth Sciences including Geotechnical and Physical Geography, Hydrology, Ecology, Modelling, Civils, Hydraulics, Environmental Planning, Drainage, Flood Risk, Natural Flood Management (NFM) & Water Quality
- Proven communication skills (both verbal and written) with the ability to influence and persuade decisions at a project level internally and also externally with partners such as local authorities and regulators
- Ability to demonstrate best value and wider environmental benefits for Rainwater Management projects and be highly numerate

**Additional Information**:
This is a hybrid role, offering a mix of home based and office working.

**We need fantastic people to enable us to deliver a great service to the public. We are committed to reaching and recruiting from every community and then supporting employees to achieve their full potential ensuring they feel valued and included, regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, sexual orientation or social background.**

**Closing Date**:13/08/23


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