This is an exciting opportunity to join the Yorkshire Fisheries Team as the Great Yorkshire Rivers (GYR) Technical Specialist.
This role will provide the technical focus for the GYR project working closely with partners and external stakeholders. The candidate could come from a fisheries or engineering background and will have an interest in delivering fish passage improvements across the county.
We are looking for someone with relevant experience in managing projects in and around rivers. They should have knowledge or specific skills; in fish pass design, hydromorphology, topographical surveying or CDM for example.
They will lead the GYR Technical Working Group to drive technical excellence in barrier removal and other fish passage solutions. Seek to share best practice and develop knowledge in the wider partner community.
The role will be key in developing and implementing a GYR Science and Monitoring Strategy and progressing maintenance standards to secure a lasting legacy for the project.
You will work closely with Yorkshire Water, and who also have dedicated GYR staff. It will be critical to actively maintain relationships with the many local delivery partners and interested parties, as well as building relationships with colleagues across the Environment Agency as the project’s key point of contact for the organisation.
You will be supported to develop and further your specialism qualifications via CPD.
You will have an office base, the role will include travel across Yorkshire for site visits, meetings and collaborative working, some overnight stays may be required.
Responding to incidents is a central to what we do. You will be asked to have an incident role and make yourself available to respond to incidents or provide business continuity support during an incident. This may attract an additional payment, and full training will be available. to support you with your incident role.
