Flood Risk Consultant

Are you a flood risk consultant looking to be part of a successful and growing team?
Are you looking to develop your career whilst contributing to sustainable development and the environment?

We are looking for experienced Flood Risk Consultants, at all grades above graduate, to join our growing development and flood risk focused teams, providing site-specific and strategic flood risk advice to a wide range of clients involved in development, land use planning and flood risk management projects.
As well as offering the opportunity to join one of our established development and flood risk teams, the role also offers significant opportunities to work on a wide range of JBA projects and alongside some of the UK’s foremost technical experts in flood risk and water management.

**Your role**
- Directing, coordinating and undertaking Flood Risk Assessments (England) in accordance with NPPF and/or Flood Consequence Assessment (Wales) in accordance with TAN15
- Providing planning related advice in relation to flood risk and drainage, for projects in England and Wales
- Supporting and delivering technical assessments, utilising in-depth knowledge of hydraulic modelling and hydrological assessments
- Developing solutions and assessing options for flood risk mitigation
- Supporting, managing or directing the delivery of high-quality projects to programme and budget requirements
- Working closely and effectively with clients, design teams, and stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes
- Preparing fee proposals and tenders, and undertaking business development activities
- Supporting and mentor junior staff
- Fostering close working relationships with colleagues and clients, working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams

Location

JBA supports agile working which provides for greater flexibility with the way that we work.

**The team member we’re looking for**

Applicants should have a geography, science or engineering related qualification, degree or equivalent.
Chartered status (CIWEM or ICE) is important to JBA and valued by our clients to be able to demonstrate experience of working in the UK development and flood risk sector. Therefore, applicants should ideally be chartered or close to achieving chartership.

Core knowledge, skills and experience should include the following:

- Experience of preparing and coordinating FRA’s and/or FCA’s
- Knowledge of interpreting hydraulic model outputs, or using hydraulic modelling software such as Flood Modeller, TUFLOW and HEC-RAS
- Excellent knowledge and awareness of the UK planning process and policy
- Effective technical report writing skills and verbal communication skills, to explain complex technical issues to non-specialists
- Work winning skills and experience
- Quality assurance and review expertise
- Project management, including contract and commercial awareness
- Familiarity in working in GIS and CAD formats
- Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office (e.g. Word/Excel)

Desirable skills for the role include:

- Experience preparing outline drainage strategies
- Experience in hydrological analysis using Flood Estimation Handbook methodologies
- Mentoring skills
- Team leadership skills
- Quality assurance and review expertise
- Tender preparation
- Networking and building existing and new client relationships
- A full UK driving licence will be desirable for the role.

**Location and contact**

JBA supports hybrid working which provides for greater flexibility with the way that we work.

The role is available at various different offices, if you would like to know more please contact us. We're always on the lookout for talented, committed and inspiring people to join us in our ambition to lead in the pursuit for resilience to climate change. In return, we offer rewarding careers with continued opportunities and dedicated support for personal development. Build your career with us and help us to build a more resilient future.

The JBA Group is a family of environmental, engineering and risk management companies committed to exceptional service and helping clients and communities build resilience to flood and environmental risk in a changing climate. We're leading the way to integrate science and technology to provide our clients with a forward-thinking view of climate resilience.

We can only do this through our fantastic team, and we believe in providing a competitive salary, flexible working conditions and the best benefits package we can. We’re an employee-owned organisation and have no external shareholders to pay, meaning all our staff benefit directly from our profits through our annual Employee-Owned Benefit scheme.

Alongside this, we’re focused on helping our staff develop their skills and offer a generous training budget to every member of staff, as well as a professional development programme and support in the attainment of professional qualifications including chartered membership.

We invest in our staff’s mental health an