# Senior Consultant: Local Government - Flood Risk Management and Sustainable Drainage

**Company**: WSP
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Flood Risk and Drainage Consultant to join our team of 300 water science and engineering professionals. As a Senior Consultant, you will work collaboratively on technically complex projects, delivering flood risk assessments, flood management projects, and sustainable drainage solutions for Local Authority clients.

Responsibilities will include:

- Contributing to or leading the delivery of good-quality technical deliverables to clients

- Supporting and mentoring junior colleagues, overseeing small project teams

- Managing and directing projects effectively, balancing programme, budget and quality requirements

- Contributing to opportunities to secure projects and extensions to existing projects

- Being multi-disciplinary and client-facing, co-ordinating project meetings both internally and externally

- Demonstrating positive H&S behaviours and championing this amongst the wider team

Requirements:

- Experience in delivering local authority flood risk services

- Experience in delivering Flood Risk Assessments and Drainage Strategies to support planning applications for new development

- Demonstrable experience of understanding budgets and leading delivery of projects and technical outputs related to flood risk management, flood risk assessment or sustainable drainage

- Understanding of the Flood Risk Management Act, National Planning Framework 4, SEPA guidance and local authority policies

- Experience in supporting and/or mentoring more junior colleagues

- Experience in technical report writing and checking

- Confidence in presenting and leading meetings with team members and clients

- A degree in a relevant environmental, geographical, science or engineering discipline is essential

- Chartered status with C.WEM, CEnv, CSci or CEng or evidence of working towards this

## Skills

### Required
- Flood Risk Management
- Sustainable Drainage
- Project Management
- Technical Report Writing
- Mentoring

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