Clean Water Modeller

Due to continued framework wins, we are looking to appoint several** Clean Water Modellers** at various locations across the UK. Our Clean Water Modellers **provide modelling, calibration and analytical support on a range of clean water projects**.

**About The Team**:
RPS Water Consulting is a team of Engineers, Modellers, and Data Analysts providing Asset Management and Operational Strategy development, to our Water Industry clients to support business planning and delivery. This is an evolving industry, providing challenges and opportunities that require innovation, dedication, and teamwork to help us meet our clients’ needs.

Our Water Consultancy business has a range of prestigious AMP8 programmes leading into AMP9 and beyond, where you’ll be securing your career for the next 20 years, leaving a lasting legacy

**About You**:
As a key member of the Water Consultancy business, your role as a **Clean Water Modeller**is critical to helping us deliver great projects for our Water Industry clients. You will be working alongside a multi-disciplinary team of water project experts on a range of capital delivery projects.

You will have a substantial opportunity to contribute towards optioneering, outline, and detailed design expertise across various frameworks. Our scope of work encompasses a wide range of technically demanding projects in the field of Wastewater Infrastructure.

By joining us, you're not just taking on exciting projects and collaborating with leading minds. You're making a meaningful impact on millions of lives the UK, leaving a legacy for generations to come. As a valuable member of our team, you'll play a crucial role in the water industry, and work with the largest water companies in the region, ensuring a positive and enduring influence on the communities we serve. If you're ready to contribute your skills and expertise to a dynamic and innovative environment, we invite you to join us on this exciting journey.

**Your 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.
- Build, maintain and manage 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.
- Contribute 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

Travelling to the client and/or other RPS offices might be required, depending on location.
**Skills, Knowledge, and Experience**:

- Experience in water modelling using InfoWorks WS, Synergi Water or similar.
- Working knowledge of GIS Systems (preferably MapInfo, ArcGIS, 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.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Self-motivated, self-disciplined and having the ability to work to tight deadlines.

**Qualifications**:

- Hold a full clean driving licence.

**What’s in it for you?**

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 encourage and value different ideas, perspectives, and styles of thinking. We need a mix of experiences and skills to develop the most innovative ideas. We respect one another and recognise the potential and contribution of everyone. You’ll be joining a diverse co