Senior Consultant

The Vacancy
WRc is seeking a
Senior GIS Consultant
to join our growing Digital Products and Services team, our focus is on delivering innovative and practical solutions to the water sector, helping clients tackle complex challenges across both clean water and wastewater networks.

This is a
full time
(37 hours)
hybrid
role, based at our office in Hattersley, Manchester.

The successful candidate will support the Technical Director and wider team across a programme of multidisciplinary projects. As a senior member of the team, you will combine deep GIS expertise with experience across related fields such as hydraulic modelling, utilities, data analytics and data science.

We are looking for someone who is comfortable operating across a range of technical disciplines, bringing creative input to digital solution design, and actively supports the development of others through line management, coaching, and mentoring.

You'll be part of a supportive community of GIS, data science, and digital professionals who work across a wide range of projects—both client-facing and internal. A key part of your role will be to help foster a confident, inclusive team environment where innovation is encouraged and high-quality work is consistently delivered.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Leadership & Delivery

• Lead or support the delivery of multidisciplinary digital projects.

• Integrate GIS, data science, and modelling techniques to create cohesive solutions.

• Scope and design spatial workflows and visualisation tools to answer client needs.

• Innovation & Solution Development

• Bring new ideas and ways of working to the team.

• Champion the use of modern, open-source GIS and coding-based geospatial workflows (e.g. GeoPandas, PostGIS, Python, R).

• Technical Excellence

• Apply best-practice GIS principles to spatial data analysis, management, and visualisation.

• Ensure spatial data integrity and interoperability within wider project data pipelines.

• Team Development & Line Management

• Line manage and mentor junior staff, supporting their technical and professional development.

• Promote a collaborative and inclusive team culture focused on learning, quality, and innovation.

Person Specification:

• A degree in a relevant field such as Geographic Information Systems, Geospatial Data Science, Geography, Environmental Science or Water Resources Management.
• Previous proven experience in GIS consultancy, ideally within the utilities, infrastructure, or environmental sectors.
• Solid understanding of geospatial analysis, spatial data engineering, and mapping.
• Solid understanding of water networks and their spatial representation and components.
• Develop solutions for complex water-related problems, such as water quality, resilience and infrastructure degradation.
• Proficient in Python and/or R, particularly with geospatial libraries (e.g. GeoPandas, Fiona, Shapely, PyProj, rasterio).
• Experience developing or supporting digital solutions that bring together GIS, data modelling, and client objectives.

Salary & Benefits:

• £48,000 - £51,250 depending on experience
• Life assurance
• A flexible benefits programme including the option to buy additional holidays, health cash plan and discounted gym membership
• Contributary pension scheme.

Full Job Description Attached Under Documents
RSK Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

RSK will not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies other than RSK PSL or Secondary agencies.
About Us
Water Research Centre (WRc) is an independent centre of excellence for innovation and growth that boasts more than 90 years of delivering leading, technical research and innovation services to the global water, waste management and energy sectors. Its subsidiary business, Cognica, is a leading provider of intelligent information-management solutions and services to the construction and estate-management markets. The businesses are based in Swindon, UK.

WRc's 170 employees bring a shared purpose of discovering and delivering new and exciting solutions that enable clients to meet the challenges of the future. In addition to its wide breadth of services in water, WRc is also home to the National Centre for Environmental Toxicology, an expert team of scientists and toxicologists offering a toxicology-on-demand subscription service.

The company is renowned for its ability to address global issues, including climate change, green growth and water and sanitation services, through applied engineering excellence, highlighted through its tagline, "innovation through collaboration".

WRc is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business providing dynamic, multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then.

At RSK, we operate as a group of businesses that work together seamlessly, aiming for growth through diversification. Our strategy helps us build a strong and resilient business, capable of weathering external challenges, while also providing greater value to our clients and more opportunities for our employees.

Since the beginning, our philosophy has remained the same: employ, develop and reward talented individuals. People are crucial to our company, and we recognise that our success hinges on our colleagues' growth. We're committed to preserving RSK's people-first culture, promoting innovation, and fostering a supportive and caring environment for collaboration. At RSK, we want you to be part of our successes and help you reach your career aspirations. We take pride in offering employees fulfilling and challenging careers by promoting ongoing growth and empowering individuals to excel.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We firmly believe that embracing and celebrating the diversity in our workforce makes us a stronger and more innovative company.

By providing workplace adjustments, we make it easier for people to confidently explore and pursue our career opportunities and recognise that flexibility is key to fostering a dynamic and thriving workplace. Many of our office-based positions benefit from a flexible working arrangement, allowing our team members to achieve a balance between professional and personal commitments.

We actively encourage applications from candidates of all genders, races, ethnicities, ages, neurotypes, religions or beliefs, sexual orientations, and those with disabilities.

If you're passionate about making a difference, join us as we work together to build a brighter, more equitable, and sustainable future for all. Do you have what it takes?