Water and Flood Risk Manager in Yorkshire

Our client is a leading design, engineering, environment and regulatory consultancy who are planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future. Due to securing further workload, their Leeds Office is looking for a Team Manager (Flood Risk and Water Management) to lead their Flooding and Water Management Team.

You will lead a growing team of environmental scientists, hydrologists/flood risk specialists and fluvial, surface water and urban drainage modellers; the team undertakes a range of assessments to support strategic studies, planning and design including environmental impact assessments (EIA), flood risk management, surface water management and SuDS, water quality and hydromorphological assessments, biodiversity net gain (river condition assessments) and river restoration.

Your role will be to lead the delivery of a wide variety of projects for several key clients both in the UK and Europe including water, energy and transport infrastructure companies, government agencies, local authorities and private developers. The work will cover a range of activities including project feasibility and strategic studies, planning and impact assessments and design and construction support.

Accountable for financial KPIs including team budget P&L within the team, you will also help in developing the skills and client portfolio of the Water Environment Department, for example in the Nature Based Solutions sector, supporting the strategic growth of the team. Your role is accountable for ensuring the quality of our client outcomes, organisational business performance, project deliverables and the people experience of your colleagues. Your role is key in developing your colleagues and generating growth by looking for opportunities.

Providing technical guidance, support and training to colleagues leading in the development of the technical skills within the Water Environment Department, you will implement improvements to technical policy, processes and design solutions where applicable, and share via the knowledge management channels as appropriate. Actively leading and supporting input into the bidding process to ensure a strong pipeline of work across the team, you will manage and develop the clients' portfolio taking an active role in developing business strategy and growing the future workload for the Water Environment Department.

Working in close collaboration with and supporting colleagues from other disciplines as required, you will be expected to lead water environment input into large multidisciplinary projects or programmes.

For this role, you will be Chartered with a professional body such as CIWEM and have a proven track record in Flood Risk and/or Water Resources Management including governance. You will have knowledge of the UK legislation governing the technical discipline including planning policy and relevant design standards. Experience of managing projects and resources, project governance and acting as discipline lead on multi-disciplinary projects is essential, as is commercial experience of managing P&L budgets, producing work winning tenders and understanding commercial risk, and influencing strategic decision-making within the business.

The role will be based in Leeds and can be worked flexibly with a minimum of 3 days per week in the office and the option of adjusted start and finish times.

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