As a senior water quality modeller, you will be a part of a large team of water resources and wastewater networks specialists working closely with our team of engineers and asset planners to deliver a wide range of services for UK and international clients. This role provides an opportunity to work with both bespoke and industry standard hydrodynamic and water quality modelling packages and to innovate beyond the current standards. You will work with industry leading experts to develop integrated river network and drainage models, investigate the natural processes influencing the fate of contaminants, build ad-hoc assessment tools tailored to project specific needs and undertake statistical analyses. For those with related interests, there are many opportunities to get involved across our teams on activities such as hydrology, systems modelling, groundwater modelling, flood modelling and computational fluid dynamics. We therefore welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds and skillsets. Your input will help our project teams and clients to deliver complex multidisciplinary projects, including addressing the impacts of cross catchment transfers, storm overflows, and discharges from infrastructure projects, resulting in strategic outcomes, engineering solutions and the desirable social outcomes that you can be proud of. Whether it is ensuring future discharge compliance in light of climate change and population growth, preventing sewage from spilling to rivers, estuaries, lakes and reservoirs or exploring how nature based solutions (NbS) can play a key role in reducing pollution, your work will bring lasting benefits to local communities and the environment around the world.
Key Responsibilities
- Core delivery of complex modelling projects – working with experts across a range of disciplines to apply attention to detail and numerical skills to environmental engineering projects.
- Analysing large datasets to distil out patterns and relationships and provide insights and foresights to inform effective resolutions and interventions to create positive social and environmental impacts.
- Assisting with proposal writing, winning work and the development of new business by providing key technical inputs.
- Maintaining client relationships and managing projects.
- Supporting and training junior colleagues, mentoring and developing early career professionals where practicable.
We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.
Qualifications
- Relevant degree-level qualifications (e.g. geography, mathematics, environmental sciences, civil engineering, or other related disciplines).
- Chartered with an appropriate professional body.
- Track record in successful delivery of SOAF, UPM and/or river modelling projects (all levels) for UK water companies.
- Good understanding of hydrodynamics, sediments and water quality processes.
- Expertise in industry standard software such as InfoWorks and/or MIKE11.
- Willingness to innovate.
- Able to guide and mentor junior staff.
Desirable
- Coding skills and statistical foundations will be an advantage.
- Experience in source apportionment assessments, catchment management modelling or application of nature-based solutions to tackle pollution.
Benefits
- Financial wellbeing – Pension matching between 4.5% and 7%, life assurance equal up to 4x basic salary, income protection scheme, flexible benefits such as increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing, annual bonus schemes.
- Employee ownership – No external investors, direct stake through personal and group performance bonuses, opportunity to grow stake as career progresses, direct pathway towards ownership for senior roles.
- Health and wellbeing – Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues, health cash plan, access to Peppy for menopause support, comprehensive wellbeing programme, salary flexion for health benefits.
- Holiday entitlement – Minimum of 33-35 days per year inclusive of public holidays, ability to buy or sell leave, increased to 35 days after 5 years’ service, variety of employee saving schemes and discounts.
- Enhanced family and carers leave – 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, 2 weeks paid paternity/partner leave, shared parental leave matching maternity leave, additional leave for caring responsibilities.
- Learning and development – Primary annual professional institution subscription and broad range of opportunities to enhance technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training and self-development.
- Networks, communities, and social outcomes – Advanced Employee Networks supporting LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities, contribution to social outcomes.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all.
Accessibility
If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.
