Hydraulic Modelling Manager

About the role

Working hours: 37 hours per week

Permanent

Salary: circa £77,000 (depending on experience)

Location: Washington, Tyne and Wear

Are you an experienced hydraulic modeller seeking an opportunity to build your own wastewater Modelling team? This is a new role that offers a unique opportunity to build and define your own team from the ground up. Once in post you’ll be recruiting your new team, using your experienced leadership to develop and support them. Through mentoring and technical development of the team you will foster continuous growth and build capabilities. You’ll lead our modelling strategy to ensure alignment with organisational objectives to achieve our targets and deliver sustainable services. You will ensure hydraulic models are precise and fit for their intended purpose, supporting project decisions, risk management, and strategic goals.

As part of this role, you will develop high-quality network models that meet regulatory requirements and support long-term planning. This includes critiquing modelling proposals and reports, ensuring alignment with standards, asset needs, strategic goals, and budgets. All of which will be done through developing a cost-effective modelling approach. Stakeholder engagement will form a foundation for this role too as you will ensure clear communication with both internal and external stakeholders.

About you

If you have experience building and inspiring high performing teams then we want to hear from you. This opportunity will see you lead and manage the development of a high-performing Wastewater Modelling team, delivering innovative and data-driven solutions to support the long-term planning and execution of wastewater interventions and programmes. You will lead and develop a skilled team of modellers, fostering expertise and best practices to enhance operational and strategic decision-making, using horizon scanning to monitor for any changes we may need to consider that would impact our plans.

In addition, you will drive innovation in hydraulic wastewater modelling, implementing advanced techniques and practices that enhance efficiency and sustainability, supporting the company's vision to be national leader. As part of this role, you will have responsibility of leading our modelling strategy and ensure alignment with organisational objectives, maximising outcomes within budgetary and regulatory frameworks to ensure we achieve our targets and deliver sustainable and resilient services. You will be knowledgeable in determining hydraulic, environmental, and operational needs of catchments and developing strategies for performance improvement. You will have experience of optimising modelling practices to ensure the successful delivery of business, service, and asset needs, driving continuous improvement and innovation.

If this sounds like an opportunity you’re interested in then apply today! We are open to supporting you with relocation costs to move closer to the location for the role, so please talk to us about this through the application process.

Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work. We encourage and welcome all applications, as we strive to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to having diverse communities represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation.

About us

Here at NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.

Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come. We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers. We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business. Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services.

Our benefits:

• Generous holiday entitlement starting at 28 days, plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays.
• Company pension scheme, where we’ll double match your contributions up to an employer contribution of 10%.
• Free access to local attractions.
• A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more.
• Award winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members.
• Support with sustainable travel – through salary sacrifice cars and a cycle to work scheme.
• Financial wellbeing support – access our community savings scheme, financial education and low cost loans through Salary Finance.
• We also provide 4 x Life Assurance and an Income Protection Scheme.
• Support with your development – we offer a range of development opportunities, can support you through an interest free qualification loan and we’ll even pay for any relevant professional body subscription.

Please note this role may require a DBS to be completed prior to employment.

About us

NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water. We are proud to serve our customers and we're committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.

Our values:

• Results Driven: We take responsibility for achieving excellent business results.
• Ethical: We are open and honest and meet our commitments with a responsible approach to the environment and our communities.
• Customer Focused: We aim to exceed the expectations of our internal and external customers.
• Innovative: We continuously strive for innovative and better ways to deliver our business.
• One Team: We work together consistently, promoting co-operation, to achieve our corporate objectives.