Senior Hydrologist

**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 3,300 employees in 21 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 the connections that we're forging that get us most excited for the future.

**Water at Beca**

Our multi-disciplinary team works across water, wastewater and stormwater, as well as streams, rivers, and flood management. We work with clients spanning the local government, central government, transportation, industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural sectors; on projects throughout New Zealand, Australia, the Pacific and South East 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 that 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.

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

The role will provide you with the opportunity to contribute to a wide range of infrastructure design, drainage/stormwater design, water resource management and flood modelling projects across New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Islands. You will bring a sound technical knowledge of hydrological understanding and methods to the role, but also have the opportunity to develop new technical skills in our well-established and supportive team. You’ll be working with our Principals and Technical Directors, while also helping to develop our

Graduate and Intermediate team members. You will have the opportunity to develop our team members and utilise your project management skills, with responsibility to deliver quality outcomes within the usual time and financial constraints of a busy consultancy.

**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, flood and hydrological modelling, and drainage/stormwater

**What we offer**

A career with Beca will provide you with:

- On-going 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
- The opportunity to be guided by a more experienced colleague through the Beca Mentoring Programme
- A supportive and caring work environment where you can bring your whole self to work.
- Flexible working arrangements to balance your personal / family commitments.
- Highly supportive environment of sharing and collaboration.
- Excellent benefits provided to all staff - including discounted health insurance, discounts on gym memberships, and a huge number of social club events.

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