Principal Wetland Specialist

Birmingham, United Kingdom / Brighton, United Kingdom / Bristol, United Kingdom / Cardiff, United United Kingdom / Leeds, United Kingdom / London, United Kingdom / Reading, United Kingdom

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The Water Consultancy Division is Mott Mac Donald’s centre of excellence for responding to water and wastewater challenges, offering fantastic opportunities to get involved in diverse and technically challenging work.

The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations and protecting our environment.

Our multi-disciplinary teams provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies, through outline and detailed design, to construction support and site supervision.

We are looking for an established wetland specialist to join our team. We worked on the industry-leading Dearne Reach and Witches Oak projects and are delivering a suite of nature-based solution programmes across major water utilities duringAMP8, as well as other clients. As a Principal Wetland Specialist, you will report to our Technical Director for nature-based solutions and will be part of a highly respected wetland team.

You will be responsible for technical direction and quality,whether applying innovative thinking to new or established services or developing your own concepts.

You will take a key role in need definition, option identification and assessment, feasibility assessments, concept design and detailed design of wetland solutions for catchment management and wastewater treatment. Typical solutions includeestablished nature-based solutions such as facultative lagoons, reedbeds, vertical and horizontal flow wetlands as well as integrated constructed wetlands (ICWs), floating treatment wetlands, and the growing application of constructed wetlandsfor storm water and combined sewer overflow (CSO) treatment.

As a Wetlands Specialist, your remit will cover a range of technical, management and commercial/client-facing activities.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Provide technical leadership for wetlands, driving innovation and efficiencies and grow our reputation in the industry
• Build and run process models to determine size and configuration of systems to treat wastewater
• Identify data requirements and analysis to inform design and performance assessments
• Maintain and share up to date knowledge of wastewater treatment and emerging technologies
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities for treatment, efficiency, energy consumption and carbon
• Oversee projects, ensuring timely, cost-effective delivery of high-quality project outcomes
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary project team including treatment, civil engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering, landscape, ecology, climate, social and operational specialist teams
• Build and manage strong relationships with clients
• Engage stakeholders in the planning, design and delivery of wetlands, and work collaboratively with partners
• Support, mentor and train colleagues
• Drive thought leadership, technical excellence and knowledge sharing
• Thorough understanding of processes…