Senior Hydraulic Engineer

Based within the Anglian Water Region

Circa £60,000 depending on skills and experience

Permanent

37 Hours

Anglian Water's purpose is 'to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop'. As a company, the focus is on enshrining purpose in everything we do.

Anglian Water is an innovative utility company always looking for ways to continue to make sure it's fit for the future. The Optimisation Team focuses on driving water network efficiencies through innovative thinking and system solutions to improve the water distribution network. They are currently looking for a Senior Hydraulic Engineer to join the team.

As part of a wider team of specialist Hydraulic Engineers / Modellers within the Smart Water team, you will be responsible for driving system solutions through identifying, investigating, and quantifying the benefit, cost, and risk of network optimisation opportunities. You will lead on ensuring the design and delivery or implementation of water distribution-based optimisation solutions across the AWS region. Preferably with skills in hydraulic modelling, you will have the ability to engineer specific and tailored solutions that are cost-effective and efficient within agreed timescales and cost constraints utilising the appropriate delivery route.

You will provide support to the Smart Water Systems Delivery Manager in ensuring opportunities are identified and prioritised and that programme areas are delivered effectively, providing assurance to the rest of the team in the projects that are developed.

Using your technical experience as a hydraulic modeller in water distribution, you will provide hydraulic expertise and technical direction to the Water Optimisation Team and Water Business Stream in all areas of distribution system hydraulic engineering, as well as providing technical leadership and guidance to junior hydraulic engineers. The role will enable integration and collaboration across the various Water Sub-Business streams and wider key stakeholder areas as part of optimisation's portfolio of work.

The role is key in enabling the development of Smart Water Systems, embedding of new technologies and solutions to facilitate the efficient operation of our water distribution system.

As a valued employee, you'll be entitled to:

• Personal private health care

• 26 days annual leave - rising with length of service

• Flexible working

• Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%

• Bonus scheme

• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

What does it take to be a Senior Hydraulic Engineer?

A Senior Hydraulic Engineer will have a specialism in water distribution, with detailed hydraulic modelling experience and general water engineering knowledge. You will have:

• Strong technical knowledge and experience of water distribution assets and systems from Source to tap

• Demonstrable experience of hydraulic modelling software packages such as Synergi or InfoWorks, ideally with optimisation experience

• Strong technical knowledge of geospatial information systems (GIS)

• A proven track record of identifying and delivering projects, preferably in an optimisation environment

• Proven financial management skills and ability to control a project budget

• Experience of building and managing productive, credible business relationships

• Strong analytical skills including data manipulation

• Good understanding of IT systems and applications

• Strong motivation and coaching skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills at all levels

• Ability to challenge and collaborate constructively

• Ability to understand and resolve problems quickly tackling cause not symptoms

Why Anglian Water?

Anglian Water is not your typical water company. What we do really matters. Water is the lifeblood of our world and we're proud of the difference we make. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly love what we do!

If you're passionate about what you do and would like to make a difference then we'd love to hear from you.

Closing date: 05/01/2024

Interview dates: W/C 13/01/2024

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