Senior Hydrologist and Flood Modeller

6 days ago


Christchurch, New Zealand Jacobs Full time

Our People & Places Solutions business - reinforces our drive to improve the lives of people everywhere and epitomizes the "why" of what we do - the tremendous positive impact and value our solutions bring to our communities and society as a whole. From facilities delivering life-saving therapies and ensuring clean water to enabling the connection of people through all modes of transportation and providing access to technology - we're integrating a multitude of these solution elements to build the smart environments of tomorrow._
- Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow._

**Your Impact**:
Our bodies and environment all depend on water, it is the building block that supports all life. Water issues are becoming increasingly prominent as we struggle with disparity between water availability and demands, water pollution, and competition for limited water resources. At Jacobs, our scientists, engineers, and planners are working together with clients to find the right solutions to their water challenges.

A career at Jacobs provides you with the opportunity to make a positive impact and deliver solutions that bring value to our communities, and society as a whole. With a workforce of 55,000 operating across much of the globe, we use our Solutions and Technology framework to provide technical development to our staff, which then enables us to develop innovative ideas to solve our client’s challenges. Our water business provides the full spectrum of consulting services from advisory and engineering through to operations and asset management.

On top of the exposure to challenging projects and career development opportunities, we offer competitive remuneration packages and multiple staff benefits such as paid parental and partner leave, purchase leave, and mental health & wellbeing programs, to name a few. We also support a plethora of flexible working practices such as flexible start/end times, job share arrangements, working from home, and part-time arrangements.

**About the role**

We are looking for a Senior Hydrologist and Flood modeller to help us deliver a strong pipeline of work on high profile and challenging projects for Water and Infrastructure (ie. road, rail, power) clients across Australia and New Zealand. Our team contribute to the whole value chain of water resource management, including data collection, environmental approvals, compliance monitoring/reporting, infrastructure design and advisory to Government in the development of policy.

The purpose of this role is to lead hydrology and flood modelling investigations and to collaboratively work with other disciplines on both small and large as well as simple and complex projects. You will have experience in developing models, analysing and interpreting data, and presenting it a way that effectively communicates your evidence and recommendations so that our clients can make decisions. You will have sufficient knowledge of legislation and policies relevant to hydrology and flood modelling, and be equipped to work collaboratively with other disciplines to ensure successful delivery of multidisciplinary infrastructure projects. It is expected that you will have project management experience, and will be able to write proposals for, win and manage smaller projects within the area of your technical expertise, and contribute to more complex projects.

You will work with a team of passionate scientists and engineers who truly value diversity and technical excellence and come from backgrounds in the private and public sectors, as well as academia. We will support you with your career ambitions through mentoring, formal and informal training, and attendance at conferences. We have an ANZ-wide annual promotions process, which provides a transparent framework for career progression, and enables direct conversations about performance and the value you are adding to our clients and wider team.

**Here’s What You’ll Need**: You will be responsible for**:

- Undertaking and leading a range of hydrology and flood modelling projects.
- Preparation of risk assessments and method statements, data collation and analysis.
- Providing specialist support to other technical disciplines within Jacobs, including for infrastructure projects.
- Liaison with clients, stakeholders and regulators, and with the wider Jacobs teams across the globe.
- Presenting information to clients and stakeholders at meetings in a concise and effective manner.
- Authoring complex assessments / reports.
- Managing projects so that they are delivered on time, within budget, and to the agreed quality.***
- Developing internal and external client contacts.

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