24 jobs found

Water Research at the Hydro Nation International Centre at the James Hutton Institute Water is central to our global sustainability, increasingly so, in these extremely challenging times. It provides the crucial link between society and prosperity, our environment and ecosystems. Water is also at the heart of the Climate Emergency and underpins our future low carbon transition and green economy. We are delighted to announce a new post at the James Hutton Institute within the Hydro Nation International Centre, focussed on the challenge of rural sustainability and the provision of off-grid low carbon systems for water provision and treatment. This is a great opportunity to be part of an ever-growing team of researchers working in water resources at the Hutton. This post is launched to compliment the recently announced fellowship in Rural Water Security funded by the Macaulay Development Trust: MDT Fellow in Rural Water Security (advertised as Hutton 23-20, closing date 12...

From £32k per annum dependent on skills and experience   Permanent    37 hours per week      At Anglian Water we supply water and water recycling services to more than six million customers in the east of England and Hartlepool. Our huge region stretches from the Humber estuary to the Thames estuary, and from Buckinghamshire to Lowestoft on the east coast. We operate and maintain 112,833 kilometres of water and sewer pipes to supply and transport water across some 27,500 square kilometres to serve our customers.    We are looking for an Waste Water Modeller, who ideally will be early in their career, to join our lively and driven team of hydraulic modellers working in urban drainage, tasked with managing, maintaining and using our hydraulic models, ensuring a best reflection of our real-life sewer systems.    The modeller is required to interpret and understand current issues and...

Senior Modeler, Flood Modelling- Solihull Closing date: 14th October We are an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical specialists offering a broad range of professional services. Through our work, we make a positive difference in the world. Our Midlands based team have a wide and growing portfolio of work planning and delivering water strategies both locally and internationally. Our Clients include the Environment Agency, Severn Trent Water and High Speed 2, as well as supporting clients held by the wider Arup water teams in Leeds, Cardiff and London. The Role We are seeking a senior modeler to join our dynamic and growing team who is excited by the challenge of driving innovation, pushing the boundaries of excellence and engaging both nationally and internationally on some of the largest and most challenging projects in the sector. The focus of this role is to lead in hydraulic modelling, hydrology and water resources...

  Location: Flexible, Cardiff preferred Grade & Salary: G7, £37,973 rising to £42,584 over four years Post number: 201478 Type of contract: Permanent Work pattern: full time Closing date: 11 October 2020 Benefits: Civil Service pension, 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days over 5 years, flexible working options, occupational health including counselling and advisory services and eye care, childcare vouchers and salary sacrifice schemes. Role Purpose As a lead senior advisor in hydrogeology you’ll be expected to: Provide technical advice to the local planning authority on applications for new developments, including assessment of site investigation reports, risk assessments, remediation statements, remediation verification reports and groundwater protection. Assess permit applications which pose a risk to groundwater Manage groundwater resources, including assessing abstraction licence...

Lead Specialist Advisor, Water & Brexit • Location: Flexible in Wales • Grade & Salary: 7 – £37,973 rising to £42,584 over three years • Post number: 202091 • Type of contract: Fixed term for two years • Work pattern: full time Closing date: 17 September 2020 Benefits: Civil Service pension, 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days over 5 years, flexible working options, occupational health including counselling and advisory services and eye care, childcare vouchers and salary sacrifice schemes. Role Purpose With the diverse nature of NRW’s remit this is an exciting opportunity to work in the Sustainable Water group within the Evidence, Policy and Permitting (EPP) Directorate.  The location is flexible within Wales working as part of the Integrated Water Planning Team. The role will provide the expert lead on water and manage the preparation of NRW policy, programmes, plans, strategies and...

Officer 1 (Environmental Data Collection Officer) • Location: Flexible within South West Wales • Grade & Salary: 4, £25,828 rising to £29,352 over four years • Post number: 202493 • Type of contract: Fixed term appointment until 31 March 2021 • Work pattern: Full time Closing date: 20 September 2020 Benefits: Civil Service pension, 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days over 5 years, flexible working options, occupational health including counselling and advisory services and eye care, childcare vouchers and salary sacrifice schemes. Role Purpose We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our team as an Environmental Data Collection Officer for Southwest Wales. You would work as part of the SW Wales Environmental Assessment and Advice Team. We provide multifunctional advice and monitoring across SW Wales. This post will focus on delivery in the field across Neath Port-Talbot, Swansea, Carmarthenshire,...

Officer 1 (Environmental Data Collection Officer) • Location: Flexible within South West Wales • Grade & Salary: 4, £25,828 rising to £29,352 over four years • Post number: 202493 • Type of contract: Fixed term appointment until 31 March 2021 • Work pattern: Full time Closing date: 20 September 2020 Benefits: Civil Service pension, 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days over 5 years, flexible working options, occupational health including counselling and advisory services and eye care, childcare vouchers and salary sacrifice schemes. Role Purpose We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our team as an Environmental Data Collection Officer for Southwest Wales. You would work as part of the SW Wales Environmental Assessment and Advice Team. We provide multifunctional advice and monitoring across SW Wales. This post will focus on delivery in the field across Neath Port-Talbot, Swansea, Carmarthenshire,...

Team Leader Flood Warning & Informing • Location: Cardiff • Grade & Salary: 8, £43,748 rising to £48,317 over four years • Post number: 202630 • Type of contract: permanent • Work pattern: full time Closing date: 8th September 2020 Benefits: Civil Service pension, 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days over 5 years, flexible working options, occupational health including counselling and advisory services and eye care, childcare vouchers and salary sacrifice schemes. Role Purpose This is an exciting new opportunity to lead our national Flood Warning & Informing team. Natural Resources Wales has a statutory duty to provide a flood warning service to communities at risk of flooding in Wales. The Flood Warning & Informing team is responsible for delivery our policy, strategy and business critical systems which enable Natural Resources Wales to provide a direct flood warning service to over...

Service Manager - Flood and Water Sheffield is a growing and ambitious city with a really good story to tell. We’re not like everywhere else, we do things differently and we’re fiercely proud of that. The city we call home is beautiful, vibrant and independent. At the same time, the city we work in is an industrial city, a producer, a maker. Sheffield has seen significant renewal over recent years, constantly reinventing itself and changing almost beyond recognition in the past three decades.                 To build on this continuing change the Strategic Transport, Sustainability and Infrastructure Service is looking to recruit a highly motivated individual to take on the role of Service Manager - Flood and Water to lead the team in developing and delivering the city’s significant and diverse flood programme and play a pivotal role in shaping and ensuring the city’s future resilience. You will act as...

Salary – Competitive + bonus + great benefits Who are we? We are United Utilities, the North West’s water and wastewater company. It’s our job to bring 3.0 million households and thousands of businesses an incredible 1,700 million litres of clean, clear water each day. We take it all away too, treating it so it’s safe to go back into the rivers. Our 5,000 employees are key to achieving our ambitious vision and plans and we all work together to provide a great service to our customers. This is where you come in… We have an exciting full time opportunity for Waste Permitting Technical Lead to join our team at Lingley Mere, Business Park in Warrington. You will be responsible for ensuring that all invoices received to pay for United Utilities permitting activities as accurate in terms of legal and financial information and manage payments to the Environment Agency. You will provide advice and guidance to the wider business on environment...

Advisor 2, Development & Flood Risk Enforcement Location: North and South Wales Grade & Salary: 5, £30,120 rising to £33,383 over four years Post number: 200284 Type of contract: Permanent Work pattern : Full time Closing date: 6 th September 2020 Benefits: Civil Service pension, 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days over 5 years, flexible working options, occupational health including counselling and advisory services and eye care, childcare vouchers and salary sacrifice schemes. Role Purpose The post holder will protect and enhance the environment by effective and efficient investigation and enforcement (where necessary) of complex environmental offending, specific to Flood Risk and Water Management activities in relation to the Environmental Permitting Regulations (England and Wales) 2016 and other relevant legislation. Qualifications and Skills Knowledge of key legislation pertinent to our Flood...

Advisor 1 (Warning & Informing) Location: Cardiff Grade & Salary: 4, £25,828 rising to £29,352 over four years Post number: 200879 Type of contract: Permanent Work pattern: full time, 37 hours Closing date: 31 August 2020 Benefits: Civil Service pension, 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days over 5 years, flexible working options, occupational health including counselling and advisory services and eye care, childcare vouchers and salary sacrifice schemes. Role Purpose The post holder will work as a key member of the Warning & Informing team in providing technical opinion and advice on flood event management across South Wales.    The post holder will help to deliver the flood warning service alongside reparedness for flood incidents within the Operation Directorate.  They will manage and coordinate our response to river and coastal flooding.    The post holder shall be able...

Environmental Project Manager £28,123 Exeter , Leeds , Solihull , Warrington , Welwyn Garden City , Worthing Permanent Full Time We are looking to recruit 6x Environmental Project Managers (EPMs) to join our National Environmental Assessment & Sustainability (NEAS) team. We are seeking talented, enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our Team. If you are passionate about the environment, delivering positive outcomes and making a better place for people and wildlife then we’d love to hear from you. It’s an exciting time as we invest £5.4 billion over the next five years to reduce flood risk to homes and businesses across the UK. You can expect to work closely with other teams to deliver exceptional flood risk schemes through: • Ensuring that engineering projects are environmentally compliant • Screening, planning and co-ordinating the delivery of EIAs • Working with a variety of environmental stakeholders...

Senior Landscape Architect £35,577 Exeter Permanent Full Time We’re looking for an experienced Senior Landscape Architect to join our National Environmental Assessment and Sustainability (NEAS) team to provide the support required to deliver innovative and cost-effective environmental outcomes for major water management infrastructure projects. You will play an important role in helping the Environment Agency reduce flood risk to 300,000 homes across the UK by 2021. You will work within a team of dedicated landscape architects, heritage, SEA and EIA expert advisers who make an important contribution to the planning and delivery of our projects and programmes in the South West. The support provided will ensure we consider the effects of our works on the landscape by working in collaboration with our suppliers and external consultees to obtain the relevant consents and agreements, and by securing appropriate mitigation and environmental improvements...

Project Officer – Flood Management Grade 12 (37 hrs per week) The Flood Management team has a variety of responsibilities to manage flood risk across the district. As a Project officer the main areas of work include: Undertaking the statutory consultee role providing technical advice on surface water drainage to the planning authority. Prepare and maintain a local flood risk management strategy. Work closely with emergency planning and recovery after a flood event. Carry out works to manage local flood risk Investigating flood incidents and identifying solutions Working with local communities and businesses to raise awareness of flood risk Maintain a register of drainage assets. A Project Officer is required to manage specific areas of work, although there will also be opportunities to gain experience of all aspects of work in the team. The main duties will be: Provide technical advice (be a lead) on surface water flood risk to...

Flood Project Engineer – Post Ref: CC346 Salary: PO3 - 6, SCP 29 – 32, £32,029 - £34,788 per annum 37 hours per week, permanent contract Halifax, West Yorkshire Calderdale is a beautiful metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, at the heart of the Yorkshire Pennines. Its spectacular natural landscape, fabulously rich heritage, vibrant towns, quirky culture, tremendous architecture and community spirit make it a great place to live, work and visit. This natural beauty does bring its challenges; the steep sided valleys make it responsive to rainfall with a long history of flooding. Protecting the communities is a Council priority at the heart of the work carried out by the flood risk management team. The team are looking to recruit a Flood Project Engineer to investigate the causes of flooding and to develop and deliver a multi-million pound programme of flood risk reduction schemes. This will involve working with a range of stakeholders...

Environmental Scientist £27,000 pro rata (22 hours a week) Based in Wigan, Stoke-on-Trent, or Ellesmere Port (Role travel means valid driving license is essential) About the role At the Canal & River Trust, we believe life’s better by water, and that the waterways we take care of have a vital contribution to make to the health and wellbeing of local communities and economies. But so that these tranquil spaces can make people happier and healthier, we have to make sure the natural environment is healthy and well-maintained too. As our Environmental Scientist, you’ll support our Senior Environmental Scientist to do just that. Together, you’ll protect, improve and promote the natural environment of the waterways, whether it’s sediment sampling, planning for waste management, or liaising with external regulators to make sure each and every river and canal is compliant with environmental regulation. About you First and...

Senior Environmental Scientist (Two years, fixed term) £38,000 + car cash allowance Based in Wigan, Stoke-on-Trent, or Ellesmere Port (Role travel means valid driving license is essential) About the role At the Canal & River Trust, we believe life’s better by water, and that the waterways we take care of have a vital contribution to make to the health and wellbeing of local communities and economies. In turn, we have to make sure that we maintain a healthy natural environment for the waterways themselves, from water quality management to sediment sampling to ensuring every river and canal’s management is in line with environmental legislation. All that needs the support of a pro-active, experienced professional – and that’s where you’ll join us as a Senior Environmental Scientist. About you Naturally, we need someone with a strong grounding in protecting nature on behalf of organisations like ours. You’re...

Asset Performance Advisor – Data and Evidence Location: Nottingham but with some flexibility across the East Midlands Grade and Salary: G5, £35,577 Post number: 14915 Type of contract: Permanent Work Pattern: 37 Hours per week, Monday to Friday Closing Date: 10 August 2020 Benefits: We offer a competitive salary and generous career pension scheme. Additional benefits include: Holiday allowance related to grade and length of service, rising from 27 days to 30 days per year, plus 8 statutory public and bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time employees) Flexible working options, including flexi-time - these depend on business needs, but our aim is to help you achieve a positive work-life balance. Occupational health including counselling and advisory services and eye care, childcare vouchers and salary sacrifice schemes. Role Purpose: The Environment Agency manages over 2,000 major operating sites, from large...

Officer 2 Operations Environmental Assessment Location: Flexible within any NRW Office Grade & Salary: G5, £30,120 rising to £33,383 over four years Post number: 201074 Type of contract: Fixed term until 24 May 2021 Work pattern: 37 Hours per week, Monday to Friday Closing date: 26 July 2020 Benefits: Civil Service pension, 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days over 5 years, flexible working options, occupational health including counselling and advisory services and eye care, childcare vouchers and salary sacrifice schemes. Role Purpose The Integrated Engineering team is responsible for the planning and delivery of maintenance of our flood risk management portfolio as part of our annual asset maintenance programme.  This involves different activities that range from regular grass cutting to medium sized civil engineering projects. In many cases, this work is needed to be delivered in environmentally...