Associate​/Associate Director​/Director

Associate / Associate Director / Director

Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Do you want to do meaningful work that improves quality of life? At Tetra Tech, you will work with high‑performing teams who are passionate about using their expertise to find solutions to complex problems in water, environment, infrastructure, resource management, energy, and international development. Tetra Tech is one of the largest and fastest‑growing environmental consultancies in the world and in 2023 the Engineering News‑Record (ENR) ranked Tetra Tech #1 in Water for the 20th year in a row.

We currently have a number of positions to fill within our flood risk and water team due to ongoing growth with our existing client base as well as new project wins with new clients. We are seeking an Associate Director to support our Water Engineering team throughout the UK, ideally based in Manchester, Chorley, Cockermouth, Newcastle, Liverpool or Leeds, but other locations will be considered for the right candidate.

Our team undertakes a wide variety of major and challenging infrastructure projects for the private and public sector across a range of development sectors. We seek to provide integrated flood risk and drainage solutions incorporating state‑of‑the‑art design across rivers, coastal and surface water problems. Our current portfolio includes a broad spectrum of projects across the water sector from flood alleviation schemes (FAS) for local authorities, such as the Derby Riverside FAS, the MOD and private sector clients through to surface water separation schemes for water utility providers.

We have recently succeeded across a number of commissions with United Utilities supporting them on their Better Rivers programme to reduce CSO spills across the north‑west of England.

We are embedded with a number of high‑profile housing developers and support them from site inception through to master‑planning, design and construction on their flood risk challenges, including the design of natural flood risk management and Sustainable Urban Drainage solutions. This role will lead the team across the full spectrum of projects, sectors and clients we support.

As a project leader you will guide our teams and support our clients in the delivery of the portfolio as well as support bidding and proposition activity as we continue to grow the team. You will lead projects and support junior colleagues throughout the delivery of projects, including client‑facing and leadership roles. You will instruct, supervise and mentor junior staff in the design and management of schemes and work with clients to ensure delivery of projects on time and to cost, and help manage change.

Our projects can range in size from £10k commissions up to £100m schemes covering flood risk projects for defence, transport, local government, utility, infrastructure, commercial, industrial and residential development. You will work independently and proactively on technical aspects from a project’s inception, determining client briefs, to the delivery and close‑out of projects in accordance with best practice.

We provide internal project management training as well as a structured learning and development platform including mentoring and coaching, CPD and training to ensure our staff are the best they can be to deliver excellence to our clients.

We operate a hybrid working policy between your home office and working from home as required to suit your daily lives; however our projects are UK‑wide and some travel would be expected on occasion, including working outside normal office hours.

• Enthusiastic professional who likes a challenge
• Desire to work in a busy and growing team and progress their career
• Experience in the delivery and leading flood risk and/or surface water separation projects from solution development, optioneering and design in line with relevant guidance
• Experience in strategic catchment planning and decision making
• Experience in writing reports and presenting to internal and external partners
• Experience in creating, developing and leading collaborative client relationships
• Experience working across and leading…