# Senior Flood Risk Consultant

**Company**: AECOM
**Location**: St Albans
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Flood Risk Consultant to join our dynamic Water Business Line. As a Senior Flood Risk Consultant, you will play a key part in shaping resilient, future-proof solutions for communities, infrastructure, and the environment.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the preparation and delivery of Flood Risk Assessments (FRAs) for developments of varying scale and complexity

- Provide technical expertise across a range of complementary disciplines, including Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Strategic Flood Risk Assessments (SFRAs), flood risk permitting and consenting

- Take ownership of technical assessments and prepare clear, robust, and high-quality technical reports

- Manage the delivery of projects and technical workstreams, ensuring successful project outcomes

- Provide sound technical advice and identify practical, commercially viable solutions to complex flood risk and drainage challenges

- Build and maintain effective relationships with clients, regulators, and other stakeholders

- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and day-to-day support to graduate and junior team members

Requirements:

- Undergraduate degree in Geography, Environmental Science, Engineering, or a related discipline

- Experience of Flood Risk Assessment preparation and delivery of flood risk and water management projects in the UK

- Knowledge of relevant planning policy in England, Wales, and Scotland

- Understanding of hydraulic modelling and drainage strategies

- GIS experience in QGIS and/or ArcGIS

- Actively working towards chartership (e.g., CIWEM/ICE)

Benefits:

- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package

- Flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle

- Career development opportunities, technical practice networks, and AECOM University

- Volunteering days and flexible working arrangements

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## Skills

### Required
- Flood Risk Assessment
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Strategic Flood Risk Assessments
- GIS
- QGIS
- ArcGIS
- CIWEM
- ICE

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