31842 - Hydrology Senior Technical Specialist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 11 Medi 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £52,929 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 21 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Preston |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 5 ddiwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | Environment Agency |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 31842 |
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Do you want to work for an organisation that values difference and includes everyone?
Then the Environment Agency is the organisation for you! We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities for everyone. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share.
We are seeking someone with passion, drive and ambition to deliver a robust and resilient hydrology service. You will use the breadth of your hydrology skills and knowledge alongside your networks, to provide strategic leadership, to build capability, champion innovation and deliver through partnership working.
You will be:
• working closely with the team leader and hydrology community to develop technical resilience and implement new ways of working.
working alongside the water resources technical leadership to develop the strategic thinking for a more sustainable future
• building strong and productive relationships with customers and partners within the organisation as well as externally to help facilitate a more sustainable water story
• providing direction, specialised expertise and support on delivering reputational, political or technically complex activities. Ensuring decisions are made on sound technical and environmental grounds.
• working with others to deliver the Area’s hydrology and project work
• undertaking analysis and determination of complex hydrological problem
• Playing a critical role when responding to environmental incidents particularly when water availability is stressed.
The team
The Team provides technical expertise and advice on water resource management and regulation across Cumbria and Lancashire (CLA). This includes important issues such as no deterioration of water courses under the Water Framework Directive, Catchment Abstraction Management Strategies, the Water Industry National Environment Programme, water company water resource management plans, drought plans and restoring sustainable abstractions and determining water resources licences.
We are based across CLA, with offices in Preston, Penrith and Warrington.
Experience/skills required
•Highly experienced and technically expert professional with extensive understanding of hydrology and water resources.
•Experience of leading people. This may have been achieved through line management, management or technical leadership roles.
•You will be able to communicate well and effectively across a wide network of audiences, having the skills to turn technical detail into compelling argument and influence your respective audience.
•Ability to deliver results through others by managing talent, coaching, and mentoring
•Be a champion for innovation and best practice to add value and to achieve more for the environment
•Ability to translate organisational ambition into strategic and tactical plans and programmes for delivery in an operational environment.
•Technical resilience planning both locally and nationally
•High level technical support for Incident Management
•You will be educated to at least degree standard (or equivalent), in a relevant scientific discipline. Chartered status is desirable.
Then the Environment Agency is the organisation for you! We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities for everyone. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share.
We are seeking someone with passion, drive and ambition to deliver a robust and resilient hydrology service. You will use the breadth of your hydrology skills and knowledge alongside your networks, to provide strategic leadership, to build capability, champion innovation and deliver through partnership working.
You will be:
• working closely with the team leader and hydrology community to develop technical resilience and implement new ways of working.
working alongside the water resources technical leadership to develop the strategic thinking for a more sustainable future
• building strong and productive relationships with customers and partners within the organisation as well as externally to help facilitate a more sustainable water story
• providing direction, specialised expertise and support on delivering reputational, political or technically complex activities. Ensuring decisions are made on sound technical and environmental grounds.
• working with others to deliver the Area’s hydrology and project work
• undertaking analysis and determination of complex hydrological problem
• Playing a critical role when responding to environmental incidents particularly when water availability is stressed.
The team
The Team provides technical expertise and advice on water resource management and regulation across Cumbria and Lancashire (CLA). This includes important issues such as no deterioration of water courses under the Water Framework Directive, Catchment Abstraction Management Strategies, the Water Industry National Environment Programme, water company water resource management plans, drought plans and restoring sustainable abstractions and determining water resources licences.
We are based across CLA, with offices in Preston, Penrith and Warrington.
Experience/skills required
•Highly experienced and technically expert professional with extensive understanding of hydrology and water resources.
•Experience of leading people. This may have been achieved through line management, management or technical leadership roles.
•You will be able to communicate well and effectively across a wide network of audiences, having the skills to turn technical detail into compelling argument and influence your respective audience.
•Ability to deliver results through others by managing talent, coaching, and mentoring
•Be a champion for innovation and best practice to add value and to achieve more for the environment
•Ability to translate organisational ambition into strategic and tactical plans and programmes for delivery in an operational environment.
•Technical resilience planning both locally and nationally
•High level technical support for Incident Management
•You will be educated to at least degree standard (or equivalent), in a relevant scientific discipline. Chartered status is desirable.