Principal Geomorphologist

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Bristol, Cambridge, Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow, Brighton, Reading, Cardiff

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Madeleine Knight

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.

The Water Consultancy Division is the centre of excellence within Mott Mac Donald for responding to water and wastewater challenges, providing support to colleagues across our global business, and offering fantastic opportunities to get involved in diverse and technically challenging work. Climate change, aging assets, and population growth place increasing pressure on our water and wastewater assets. Our highly successful water consultancy business is servicing ever-increasing demands from water sector clients to help deliver ambitious capital programmes.

The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations and protecting our environment.

With sustainability, social impacts, digitalisation, and carbon reduction in mind, our diverse and multi-disciplinary teams work together to 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 principal geomorphologist, you will be part of a large team of water resources and flood risk specialists, working closely with our teams of engineers and asset planners to deliver a wide range of services for UK and international clients. For those with related interests, there are many opportunities to get involved across our teams on activities such as hydrology, water quality, catchment management, flood, hydraulic and sediment modelling as well as climate resilience.

We therefore welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds and skillsets.

Your enthusiastic input will help our project teams and clients to deliver complex multi-disciplinary projects, resulting in sound strategic decisions, engineering solutions that work with nature, and desirable social outcomes that you can be proud of. Whether it is restoring rivers to make them more resilient to climate extremes, understanding risks from erosion to utilities and infrastructure, or finding ways to work with and emulate natural processes, your work will bring lasting benefits to local communities and the environment.

• Providing excellent geomorphological advice to assist concept, outline and detailed designs for work in river environments.
• Prepare holistic plans for flood risk management, natural flood management and river restoration/habitat creation schemes.
• Undertake field surveys to collect baseline information on river environments.
• Developing innovations for data collection and interpretation in river and floodplain environments.
• Lead environmental assessments relating to the water environment, with a focus on hydro morphology (e.g. Water Framework Regulations).
• Prepare calculations and reports for erosion risk assessments and design of mitigation measures.
• Contribute to technical mentoring and professional development of the team, developing and maintaining client relationships, attending conferences, writing articles or thought leadership pieces and networking across the industry.

Role The role will lead technical delivery of geomorphology and water environment assessments throughout the UK and potentially internationally. The candidate will have opportunities to work within an experienced multi-disciplinary team…