Flood Risk Engineer / Water Engineer / Assistant Engineer

Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Do you want to do meaningful work that improves quality of life? At Tetra Tech, you will work with high-performing teams who are passionate about using their expertise to find solutions to complex problems in water, environment, infrastructure, resource management, energy, and international development.

Tetra Tech is one of the largest and fastest growing environmental consultancies in the world and, in 2023, the Engineering News-Record (ENR) ranked Tetra Tech #1 in Water for the 20th year in a row.

Summary:

We currently have a number of positions to fill within our flood risk and water team due to ongoing growth with our existing client base as well as new project wins with new clients. We are seeking Consultants and Engineers to support our Water Engineering team throughout the UK based ideally out of Manchester, Leeds, or London offices, but other locations will be considered for the right candidate. Our team undertakes a wide variety of major and challenging infrastructure projects for the private and public sector, across a range of development sectors. We seek to provide integrated flood risk and drainage solutions incorporating state of the art design.

Our current flood risk portfolio includes a broad spectrum of projects across the water sector from flood alleviation schemes (FAS) for local authorities, the MOD and private sector clients through to surface water separation schemes for water utility providers. Some our key projects include the Derby Riverside Flood Alleviation Scheme and United Utilities Better Rivers CSO spill reduction programme. We are embedded with a number of high-profile housing developers and support them from site inception through to masterplaining, design and construction on their flood risk challenges, including design of natural flood risk management and Sustainable Urban Drainage solutions.

Our varied client and project base provides our team exciting challenges to continuingly improve their skills and knowledge across the sector. As a project leader, you will guide our teams and support our clients in the delivery of the portfolio as well as support bidding and proposition activity as we continue to grow the team.

Responsibilities:

We require an experienced individual of high calibre to assist in the flood risk and drainage teams at Tetra Tech across a range of activities such as flood risk solution design, hydraulic modelling and hydrology assessment, drainage design and SUDs. We work across a diverse range of clients delivering challenging infrastructure projects for the private and public sector. 

Our projects typically range in size from £1m to £100m schemes covering defence, transport, local government, infrastructure, healthcare, education, commercial, industrial and residential development. You will work independently and proactively on technical aspects from a project’s inception, determining client briefs, to the delivery and close out of projects in accordance with best practice and supported by senior colleagues throughout.

You will provide support to our project managers throughout the delivery of projects as well as take on project management responsibility on low risk projects, including taking client facing roles as you develop your career with us. Where appropriate, you will instruct, supervise and mentor junior staff in the design and management of schemes and work with clients to ensure delivery of projects to time and cost, and to help manage change.

We provide internal project management training as well as a structured learning and development platform including mentoring and coaching, CPD and training to ensure our staff are the best they can be to deliver excellence to our clients.

Our projects are UK wide and some travel would be expected on occasion, including working outside normal office hours.

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate some or all the requirements below:

·       Be an enthusiastic professional who likes a challenge (essential)

·       Want to work in a busy and growing team and have a desire to progress their career (essential)

·       Have experience in the development of options to reduce flooding in river and surface water flood risk environment, including design.

·       Have experience in delivering flood modelling commissions for flood risk projects and flood risk assessments to support projects through the planning system

·       Experience in writing reports and presenting to internal and external partners

·       Experience in developing SUDs and drainage solutions

·       Experience in developing Natural Flood Management solutions

·       Experience in developing hydrological studies using UK hydrological methodologies (such as the Flood Estimation Handbook)

·       Experience in IT systems such as ArcGIS, AutoCAD and the Microsoft Office suite.

·       Assist in the preparation of fee proposals and bids

·       Be educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant field and eligible for CEng MICE or chartered with CIWEM.

·       Be working towards or committed to attaining chartership.

·       Have good interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work independently, a collaborative approach and a proven ability to deliver work on time. 

·       Have a commitment to encouraging good health and safety practices within the workplace and within design.

·       Be a team player displaying enthusiasm, flexibility and versatility.

·       Have the ability to mentor, encourage and support junior team members.

·       Have a desire to build upon your existing experience, continuing your professional development with Tetra Tech.

·       Hold a full UK Driving License.

·       Security Clearance to minimum SC level preferable (or be suitable and willing to apply for clearance essential).