Senior​/Principal Hydrogeologist

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Location/s: Birmingham, Cambridge, Leeds, London, Sheffield, Bristol; UK

Recruiter contact: Aoife Cullen

Mott Mac Donald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee‑owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.

Whatever your ambition, Mott Mac Donald is where people come to be brilliant.

The Water Consultancy Division is Mott Mac Donald’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.

As a senior hydrogeologist, you will be part of a large team of water resources specialists, supporting and learning from our teams of hydro geologists, hydrologists, water quality specialists, asset planners and engineers as they deliver a wide range of services for UK and international clients. Our groundwater experts work on a variety of projects for diverse clients, delivering services in public water supply, borehole construction, construction dewatering, consents, groundwater quality, abstraction impact assessments, groundwater modelling, catchment conceptualisation and management.

Your input will help our project teams and clients to deliver projects, resulting in strategic decisions and solutions that you can be proud of. Whether it is minimising the impacts of abstraction on the environment, or ensuring the longevity of groundwater assets, your work will bring lasting benefits to local communities and the environment around the world.

• Provision of senior technical advice across a wide range of groundwater topics including groundwater modelling, groundwater quality, Water Framework Directive, geo‑environmental, engineering hydrogeology and groundwater risk assessments
• Contribution to bid and proposal writing across water resources, environmental and engineering sectors
• Analysing data using tools such as Modflow, ArcGIS, QGIS, Python, Microsoft Excel
• Producing high quality reports for clients

Alongside your technical role, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills in project management and business development through engaging with our clients, and people management.

• Degree level qualification in hydrogeology, geology, environmental science, mathematics or other related discipline
• Good communication and written skills
• Well organised, able to prioritise your own workload with minimal supervision and support more junior members of the team
• Logical and pragmatic approach to problem solving, attention to detail and the motivation to innovate
• Understand the importance of prioritising health, safety, wellbeing and environmental issues
• Experience of quantitative assessment of groundwater problems and developing an understanding of different groundwater flow systems
• Experience of analysis of environmental dataset, including groundwater levels, river flows and climate data
• Experien…