Principal Cleanwater Hydraulic Modeller

Mott MacDonald

Position location: Brighton,  Southampton, London, Reading, Cambridge
Recruiter contact: Nicola Coyle

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy. 
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities. 

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs. 

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence. 

About the division 

The Water Consultancy Division is Mott MacDonald’s centre of excellence for responding to water and wastewater challenges, offering fantastic opportunities to get involved in diverse and technically challenging work. The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations and protecting our environment. Our multi-disciplinary teams provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies, through outline and detailed design, to construction support and site supervision.

Ready for your next challenge? We're a company that actively fuels the creativity of our people. We create the right foundations to bring brain and soul together and we understand that careers take many forms. We've had enormous success in the AMP8 frameworks, and we know that variety is key to job satisfaction. We use our success to help our people learn through new challenges.  So take the next step in your career, with a company focused on supporting the development of our people through defined technical career pathways and supporting creativity with global and local mentors. You have the skills, now use them at Mott MacDonald, a company that values a different perspective. If water's the new gold - shift your career and help address our planet's needs. 

Overview of role

Do you want to be part of an employee-owned company where our unique independence affords us the opportunity to focus on projects that matter – those delivering positive social outcomes and enhancing the environment? Do you want to harness digital innovation and push the boundaries of current practice in pursuit of technical excellence? Working for a company like ours, with technical excellence at our core, offers you access to industry recognised experts in a variety of disciplines and the support and opportunities you are after for your career progression. At Mott MacDonald, we are a collaborative team, excited to solve complex challenges that have a positive impact on the world, and we are always looking for like-minded people to join us. 

The Water Consultancy Division is the centre of excellence within Mott MacDonald for responding to water and wastewater delivery capability challenges, providing support to colleagues across our global business, and offering the best opportunities to get involved in diverse and technically challenging work. Following our success in securing AMP8 frameworks, we have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Cleanwater Hydraulic Modeller to join our national team of innovative and motivated modellers, delivering water infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects for both UK Water Companies and international clients. You will be a driven individual with a keen interest in clean network modelling and solution engineering. You should be familiar with InfoWorks WS Pro, as well as GIS packages. You’ll be able to understand water projects holistically and work in collaboration with other teams (civil, mechanical, process, structural, environmental) for the successful delivery of multi-disciplinary projects.

As a Principal Hydraulic Modeller, you would be responsible for providing key technical inputs on a range of clean water infrastructure projects. You’ll be responsible for:

• Leading a team to deliver hydraulic modelling on a range of projects, including zonal and growth studies, model build and maintenance, operational, planning and design support and development of solutions for water infrastructure issues.
• Mentoring more junior colleagues.
• Providing technical guidance, quality assurance and compliance with standards.
• Supporting continuous improvement of procedures and processes to drive efficiency and innovation, contributing to the application of our digital engineering initiatives.
• Support the framework operations manager to ensure the efficient delivery and successful performance of the framework.
• Working collaboratively across disciplines to ensure the efficient delivery of projects within your portfolio.
• Engaging regularly with the Client and stakeholders to ensure the efficient delivery of projects, providing regular updates on progress and status of work within your area of responsibility, as well as identifying and communicating issues that could risk programme, quality or cost
• Engaging with best practice and taking responsibility for your own professional development.

Mott MacDonald offers a highly innovative and collaborative environment within which to further develop your career. We can offer development in technical, management or client-facing directions. You will have control of your own career path and great prospects for career progression as the business continues to grow.

Candidate specification

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Principal Hydraulic Modeller with the following attributes:

• Candidates should be experienced with InfoWorks WS Pro including functionality such as User Programable Controls, Open Data Import / Export Centre including scripts, SQL and live data configuration including use as a time varying control.
• Candidates should be experienced in GIS packages such as QGIS, MapInfo or ARCGIS.
• Experience with clean water network model building and updating from CAD/GIS, model calibration.
• Experience with processing and analysing Telemetry or SCADA data (flow, pressure, turbidity etc.) in excel.
• Experience with planning/undertaking field (pressure/flow/quality) testing in accordance with required Health, Safety and Environmental standards and procedures.
• Familiarity with the relevant British Standards and clean water network modelling specifications of UK water companies.
• Proven ability to lead delivery of technical projects, including controlling and reporting on project budgets within area of responsibility, and experienced in the preparation of time and budget estimates for proposals.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills in both oral presentations and written reports, to colleagues, non-technical staff and clients.
• Chartered with a relevant professional institution such as CIWEM or ICE.
• Enthusiasm for building a modelling team, playing a pro-active part in shaping the growth and development of the team and committed to making it successful over the life of the framework.
• Flexibility and willingness to adapt the role to meet framework requirements as the workload evolves

Desirable:

• Experience of WS Pro Exchange and Ruby.
• Experience of IWLive Pro.
• Experience with NEC4 Professional Service Contract.
• Experience of similar clean water network modelling software such as Synergi, WaterCAD/WaterGEMS. 
• Experience working with FME, Power Bi, Power Automate and / or programming skills in languages such as Ruby, VBA or Python.
• Experience of WTW and WWTW hydraulic analysis.
• Experience of wastewater hydraulic modelling, including use on Infoworks ICM.

If you meet 80% or more of what we’re looking for, please still apply. We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn’t know we need.

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
 

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. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. 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.

Agile working 

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

 Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

 Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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