Flood Risk Associate to Associate Director

Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Do you want to do meaningful work that improves quality of life? At Tetra Tech, you will work with high-performing teams who are passionate about using their expertise to find solutions to complex problems in water, environment, infrastructure, resource management, energy and international development.

Tetra Tech is one of the largest and fastest growing environmental consultancies in the world (Ranked No.2 Globally - Environment Analyst 2021) and in 2021, the Engineering News-Record (ENR) ranked Tetra Tech #1 in Water for the 18th year in a row.

**Summary**:
Our current flood risk portfolio includes outline business cases for local authorities such as the Shap flood alleviation scheme Cumbria County Council, schemes for the MOD defence portfolio and National Grid. We are embedded with a number of high-profile housing developers and support them from site inception through to masterplaining, design and construction on their flood risk challenges, including design of natural flood risk management solutions on the Manchester Northern Gateway partnership. We support Homes England on some of their largest commissions, including technical advisory for flood risk consenting on the York Central development and designer on the 4,000 home Attleborough Urban Extension project. Our varied client and project base provides our team with exciting challenges to improve their skills and knowledge across the sector. As a project leader, you will guide our teams and support our clients in the delivery of the portfolio as well as support bidding and proposition activity as we continue to grow the team.

**Responsibilities**:
We require an experienced individual of high calibre to lead projects for the flood risk and drainage teams at Tetra Tech across a range of activities such as river, coastal and flood defence design, hydraulic modelling and hydrology assessment, fluvial geomorphology assessment, water framework direct assessments and the development of business cases. We work across a diverse range of clients delivering challenging infrastructure projects for the private and public sector.

Our projects can range in size from £10k commissions up to £100m schemes covering flood risk projects for defence, transport, local government, infrastructure, commercial, industrial and residential development. You will work independently and proactively on technical aspects from a project’s inception, determining client briefs, to the delivery and close out of projects in accordance with best practice.

You will lead projects as a project manager and support junior colleagues throughout the delivery of projects, including client facing and leadership roles. You will instruct, supervise and mentor junior staff in the design and management of schemes and work with clients to ensure delivery of projects to time and cost, and to help manage change.

We provide internal project management training as well as a structured learning and development platform including mentoring and coaching, CPD and training to ensure our staff are the best they can be to deliver excellence to our clients.

Whilst based in Manchester or Leeds, the projects are UK wide and some travel would be expected on occasion, including working outside normal office hours.
- Be an enthusiastic professional who likes a challenge
- Want to work in a busy and growing team and have a desire to progress their career
- Have experience in the delivery and leading flood risk appraisals projects in accordance with the FCERM appraisal guidance
- Have experience in delivering and leading detailed design of options to reduce flood risk, such as earth embankment, RC wall and structure design
- Experience writing reports (including business cases) and presenting to internal and external partners
- Experienced working across and leading multidisciplinary teams to delivery projects efficiently and effectively, such as with hydraulic modellers and environmental consultants
- Experience or an interest in developing Natural Flood Management solutions
- Experience in the Multi-coloured Manual for flood risk economic appraisal
- Have an understanding and experience in working with the NPPF
- Ideally have experience in delivering flood risk assessments and watercourse consents
- Ideally some experience in delivering Water Framework Directive assessments
- Experience in IT systems such as ArcGIS, AutoCAD and the Microsoft Office suite
- Be educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant field and Chartered with the ICE or CIWEM.
- Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work independently, a collaborative approach and a proven ability to deliver work on time
- Have a commitment to encouraging good health and safety practices within the workplace and within design
- Be a team player displaying enthusiasm, flexibility and versatility
- Have the ability to mentor, encourage and support junior team members
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