Senior Hydrologist

**Senior Hydrologist**

**Water at Beca**

Our multi-disciplinary team specialises across water, wastewater, and stormwater, as well as streams, rivers, and flood management. We collaborate with clients in local and central government, transportation, industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural sectors in New Zealand, Australia, the Pacific and Southeast Asia. As our clients continue to call on our expertise, we’re right there beside them and are looking for more great people to join our team.

We embrace the fact that people are our greatest asset. It’s our people that set us apart, and who our clients keep coming back to. Passionate about what we do and the culture we have developed, we believe that key to our success is the teamwork and collaboration fostered, not only within our Water team, but right across the Beca Group.

This commitment to our people means we understand that it’s not always easy juggling work with everything else life throws at us. Which is why we are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for all opportunities in the Beca team-in either a part-time or full-time capacity.

**The opportunity**

We are looking for experienced** Hydrologists** to join our **Christchurch-based Water Resources and Stormwater team.**

**If this sounds like you, then these are the skills and experience we are looking for**:

- Honours degree or higher in a relevant field, such as Hydrology, Earth Science, Physical Geography, Natural Resources Engineering, or Water Resources
- Minimum of 7 years equivalent work experience
- Chartered, or working towards chartership, with and appropriate organisation, e.g., CIWEM, ICE, EngNZ
- Demonstrable expertise in technical areas of hydrology, including water resources management.

**About you**

You are an intermediate or senior level civil engineer, with some technical experience in hydrology, hydraulics of pipe and open channel networks, catchment planning, water quality treatment, or flood risk assessment, as well as civil engineering design. You’ll take accountability of your work with a track record of on-time and on-budget delivery. You’ll be a team player who enjoys working as part of a talented and diverse team. You’ll also need to have the ability to build strong relationships with clients, based on understanding their needs as well as maintaining their trust and confidence in our performance, ultimately leading to continuing work and repeat business. We would also welcome project management or site experience.

**What we offer**

A career with Beca will provide you with:

- Ongoing career development, including encouragement and support to attain / maintain professional registration (e.g., CPEng)
- The chance to contribute to some of the most interesting and complex water projects across New Zealand and internationally
- Experience an exciting and successful business culture that respects and values all perspectives.
- Empower our people and potential by embracing opportunities to reach our full potential and develop the potential in others.
- Opportunity to be part of our professional services firm, contributing to the fabric of all communities across our regions
- Encouragement of balance in each aspect of your life flexibility, wellbeing, and personal development
- Comprehensive health and wellbeing support, including wellbeing leave, volunteer leave, gender affirmation support, flexible working arrangements and many more work perks.

Beca prides itself on supporting a diverse and inclusive culture-open to inputs from creative people of all genders, ethnicity, identity, thought and experiences.

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**About Beca**

Beca is one of Asia Pacific’s largest independent advisory, design, and engineering consultancies. After a century of operation, we have grown from a family-owned business to one of the most progressive, client-centric professional services consultancies in our region. We have more than 4,000 employees in 24 offices around the world and have delivered projects in more than 70 countries.

‘Creative people together transforming our world’ is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations, and our purpose - to make everyday better. We create value through understanding and delivering successful solutions, exceptional service and our enduring relationships and use our skills and systems to empower innovation; helping our clients shape communities, optimise their assets and streamline their operations.

While our experience has been 100 years in the making, it is the fresh talent we’re nurturing, the innovative thinking we’re developing and