Senior Clean Water Modelling Expert

4 weeks ago


Derby, Derby, United Kingdom RPS Group Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Clean Water Modeller to lead our team in providing modelling, calibration, and analytical support on a range of clean water projects.

Key Responsibilities
  • Technical development and delivery of clean water hydraulic models, including model construction and calibration, model use studies, optioneering, and analysis studies, to time, budget, and the required quality.
  • Leadership of modelling project teams delivering a diverse portfolio of water infrastructure projects.
  • Line management of project team members with responsibility for day-to-day leadership and direction for the team, workload planning and prioritisation, provision of technical direction and support, driving staff performance, motivation, and career development.
  • Ensuring quality of modelling outputs and compliance with standards, specifications, and governance requirements.
  • Accountable for commercial performance and forecasting of projects, and the production of bids and proposals.
  • Building, maintaining, and managing strong and collaborative working relationships with clients.
  • Continual improvement of modelling tools, procedures, and processes to drive efficiency and innovation.
  • Maintaining and reporting on an overall programme of work and associated resource demands.
  • Developing and improving relationships and collaboration with other internal RPS modelling teams.
  • Contribution to commercial performance, forecasting, and risk management, and the production of bids and proposals.
  • Management of all health and safety, quality, and environmental aspects of projects.
About You
  • Preferably a degree-qualified individual in a relevant technical subject, with postgraduate qualifications being an advantage.
  • Experience in water modelling using InfoWorks WS, Synergi Water, or similar.
  • Proficiency in MS 365 applications, with knowledge in key areas such as advanced Excel and Visual Basic.
  • Working knowledge of GIS Systems, preferably MapInfo, ArcGIS, or QGIS.
  • Deep expertise in hydraulic modelling and/or related water infrastructure areas, taking responsibility for delivery of specialist, complex, or innovative projects, ensuring client standard and specification compliance.
  • Ability to coordinate and manage staff at all levels, including line management of less experienced colleagues, improve organisational effectiveness, and a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Ability to build, lead, and motivate a team both internally and in partnership with external clients, and provide technical guidance and mentorship.
  • Ability to manage (or support project managers to manage) small to large modelling projects/packages and programmes of work.
Desirable
  • Chartered membership (or working towards with demonstratable experience) of relevant professional institutions (CIWEM, IOW, ICE, or equivalent) would be an advantage.
  • Hold a full clean driving licence.
What's in it for you?

We will provide you with a flexible, friendly, and creative environment to develop your skills and challenge yourself. Successful candidates are trained by industry-leading professionals who are committed to the personal development of their teams. We also run a comprehensive suite of training courses throughout the year which focus on softer skills and personal development, with needs identified through our annual appraisal process.

A personal development plan and a transparent career pathway puts you in the driving seat of your career and you'll be supported as far as you want to go.

We're a connected community, working together to achieve exceptional outcomes. We understand the need to work flexibly, empowering our people to create a work-life balance that's right for them. We also understand the importance of collaboration and social connection in the office environment. With agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we trust our people to find the right balance to meet client needs – this is a workplace that works for you.

Representing an exciting new chapter in our business, on 24 January 2023, RPS became a Tetra Tech company. With 27,000 employees in more than 550 offices in more than 120 countries on seven continents, Tetra Tech is a leading, global provider of consulting and engineering services. As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to offer our people market-leading development and project opportunities, helping to solve some of the world's most complex problems.

It's an exciting time to be working for our UK Water business as the workload in the water market takes off. With a broad portfolio of long-term framework agreements in place, we are ideally placed to help our clients deliver on the challenges facing them over the coming years – whether that is reducing leakage, pollution, and flooding, or improving the environment and levels of service to their customers.

Our Water business employs around 1000 highly skilled and motivated people working on projects for all of the water and sewerage companies across the UK, and most of the water-only companies. We deliver a full range of end-to-end water and wastewater services including data collection and analytics; modelling and risk analysis/optimisation; data visualisation and mapping; artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions; feasibility studies; outline and detailed design of capital solutions; and development of optimised, risk-based, operational interventions.

Come and join our team and truly make a difference in the future of water

#LI-MM1 #LI-REMOTE #LI-HYBRID

Mindful that a truly inclusive organisation must make appropriate use of talent on a global basis and without unnecessary barriers, we are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion principles in all People processes in order to be as diverse as the communities and clients we work with, thereby securing, developing, and retaining the best available talent for the company's future.

Our people live our purpose, deliver our promise, and demonstrate our behaviours every day. Our behaviours define who we are. Developed by our people, they underpin everything that we do. They create the memorable experiences we are known for and make RPS a great place to do great work.

We have a Preferred Supplier List of trusted partners to assist us when required and do not acknowledge any speculative CVs or unsolicited candidate introductions from agencies not on this list. Please refer to the careers page on our website if you require any further information.



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