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Jacobs Principal Hydraulic Modeller in Manchester, United Kingdom
Your Impact:
At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.
People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.
Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.
About the Opportunity
Our Water and Environment Business Unit provides a focus for advising our clients on River Engineering and Flood Risk Management solutions including flood defence structures, weirs, gates, sluices, flood storage reservoirs, natural flood management, habitat creation, hydrometric gauging facilities and fish passes. Our integrated Water Environment team comprises in excess of 400 staff based in the UK and Europe, but with reach into the Middle East, Australasia and America.
We are looking for an experienced Hydraulic Modeller with interest in line management to join our Water Catchment Management team in Manchester one of our UK centres of excellence for modelling. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with extensive experience in 1D and 1D-2D hydraulic modelling on projects involving river, coastal and surface water modelling.
You will be responsible for leading a team of modellers and guiding, reviewing the work of more junior staff on a range of hydraulic modelling studies.
You will support a variety of studies across flood risk management and river/reservoir engineering for major infrastructure projects in the UK and potentially overseas. The successful individual will be able to demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of hydraulic modelling across a range of applications, technical leadership and will have the necessary skills to provide mentoring and development of staff.
You are commercially aware with a thorough understanding of the UK water and environment sector and the requirements of working in consultancy.
Here’s what you’ll need :
Undergraduate degree (2:1 or above) in Engineering, Environmental Science, Geography or a related discipline
Preferably Chartered with CIWEM or ICE
Extensive experience in implementing 1D and 2D modelling techniques for river, urban and coastal flooding applications.
Excellent knowledge and practice of industry standard software (e.g. Flood Modeller, Tuflow, InfoWorks ICM, HEC-RAS).
An inclusive manager who works effectively as part of a diverse team with experience of staff supervision and development
Experience of liaising with clients and managing projects
Experience of resource management and staff development
Excellent literacy, communication, analytical and numeracy skills
Excellent interpersonal skills
Our Culture
Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs. (https://careers.jacobs.com/life-at-jacobs/)
We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity – ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s – find out more about our employee networks here. (https://www.jacobs.com/about/inclusion-and-diversity?_ga=2.1062705.1096535124.1626879887-1704311048.1575562676)
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