Senior Hydrologist

Bristol, United Kingdom / Cambridge, United Kingdom / Edinburgh, United Kingdom / Glasgow, United Kingdom / Inverness, United Kingdom / Leeds, United Kingdom / London, United Kingdom / Manchester, United Kingdom / Reading, United Kingdom / Sheffield, United Kingdom

Mott Mac Donald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.

Whatever your ambition, Mott Mac Donald is where people come to be brilliant.

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 lifecycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies, through outline and detailed design, to construction support and site supervision.

Do you want to work for a company whose purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes, and to transform businesses, communities, and opportunities for its employees? Mott Mac Donald is a global consultancy whose people do exactly that.

As a Senior Hydrologist, you will be an integral part of our wider Water Resources and Flooding sector which brings together a wealth of knowledge and experience in hydrology, hydrogeology, water quality, catchment management, climate resilience, hydraulic modelling, flood risk, computational fluid dynamics and associated disciplines.

We have an exceptionally strong record in providing hydrology and climate science services and expertise to theUK and international water and hydropower sectors. Our clients are increasingly demanding better predictions of the impact of climate change on the availability of water and the frequency and magnitude of floods, and weare continually innovating to support them. We have developed advanced rainfall-runoff models and weather generators as well as our own digital tool to interrogate and process the latest climate projections and run meteorological forecasts.

Our portfolio includes the major UK water companies as well as the EA and SEPA. Weare regularly involved in hydropower projects around the world supporting developers and lenders, and we undertake climate change risk assessments and impact assessments at a local, regional or national scale.

Examples of your contributions are:

• Low flow assessments and water systems modelling to define the availability of water for supply during droughts
• Implementation of hydrological forecasting systems
• Estimation of changes in climate variables in the future by using global or regional projections
• Flood hydrology studies incorporating the impact of climate change
• Hydropower feasibilities studies, including the definition of design floods and the verification of energy generation
• Climate change risk assessments of assets or portfolios of assets

Alongside your technical role, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills in project management and business development through engaging with our water sector and regulatory framework clients.

You can look forward to many opportunities to do great things in Mott Mac Donald. We combine heritage,…