Principal Hydrologist

**Locations**
- Bristol, UK / Cambridge, UK / Leeds, UK

**Country**
- United Kingdom

**Contract type**
- Permanent

**Work pattern**
- Variable Hours, Part Time, Full Time

**Market**
- Water

**Discipline**
- Water

**Job ref**
- 7223

**Recruiter contact**
- Maria Cervantes

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy. Our purpose is to use our expertise for the benefit of our clients and the communities they serve.

Our values are **P**rogress, **R**espect, **I**ntegrity, **D**rive, and **E**xcellence. A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs. We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

**About the division**
The Water Consultancy Division is Mott MacDonald’s centre of excellence for responding to water and wastewater challenges, offering fantastic opportunities to get involved in diverse and technically challenging work. The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations and protecting our environment. Our multi-disciplinary teams provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies, through outline and detailed design, to construction support and site supervision.

Do you want to use your experience to make an impact? At Mott MacDonald we support all leadership potential, creating high-performing teams with a flatter hierarchy that fosters more autonomy and greater employee engagement. We understand that development never stops. Our leaders have a vision of who they want to be and a strategy to take them there. As a company with a fully independent ownership, we're proud to be stewards of our business. We embed real leadership behaviours and the business priorities they serve, and believe transparency and openness make us agile and adaptable. So bring your expertise to a company looking for acknowledged and emerging leaders, where your professional journey can take a wide variety of forms. Driven by you and supported by us.

**Overview of role**
As a Principal Hydrologist, your remit will cover a range of technical, management and commercial/client-facing activities. This is a very exciting time to join our Water & Environment team as we have had significant success winning work on major water projects and water company frameworks. You will be a key member of our water resources team working on a variety of projects across a range of clients. You will be working in a collaborative environment which strives for continuous improvement. The role offers an excellent progression route within the business and the opportunity to make a difference in the water sector, delivering long lasting customer, social and environmental benefits.
Our water resources team has an exceptionally strong record in providing hydrology and climate science services and expertise to the UK and international water sectors. Our clients are increasingly demanding better predictions of the impact of climate change on the availability of water and the frequency and magnitude of floods, and we are continually innovating to support them. We have developed advanced rainfall-runoff models and weather generators as well as our own digital tool to interrogate and process the latest climate projections. Our portfolio includes the major UK water companies as well as the Environment Agency and SEPA. We are regularly involved in hydropower projects around the world supporting developers and lenders, and we undertake climate change risk assessments and impact assessments at a local, regional or national scale.

You will have particular responsibility for:

- Delivering water resource management, hydrological modelling and climate impact assessment projects
- Managing projects and maintaining client relationships
- Assisting with winning work and the development of new business within the water resources team and across the wider water resources practice
- Providing technical leadership, support and training to junior colleagues and assisting in the mentoring and development of others.

We are looking for a driven individual, with a proven track record in the field and with a passion for learning and innovating in this fast-moving discipline. In addition, you should ideally have:

- Degree level qualification in hydrology, geography, mathematics, civil engineering, or other related discipline
- Chartership with an appropriate professional body.
- Demonstrable experience in low flows hydrology, including rainfall-runoff modelling, water systems modelling, such as Aquator, WEAP or Pywr
- Awareness of regulatory requirements as regards the UK water resources management planning process
- Excellent communication and written skills.

Desirable skills:

- Awareness of regulatory requirements as regards the UK water resources management planning process
- Project manageme