Water Science Graduate (Environment) – Multiple Locations – 2024 starts

Firm Description

At AECOM, we’re delivering a greater world.

We imagine infrastructure creates alternative for everybody. Whether or not it’s bettering your commute, preserving the lights on, offering entry to wash water or reworking skylines, our work helps folks and communities thrive.

Our purchasers belief us to carry collectively the most effective folks, concepts, technical experience and digital options to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the setting and new vitality. We’re one world workforce – 47,000 robust – pushed by a typical objective to ship a greater world.

Right here, you’ll have freedom to develop in a world of alternative.

We gives you the flexibleness you should do your finest work with hybrid work choices. Whether or not you’re working from an AECOM workplace, distant location or at a consumer web site, you’ll be working in a dynamic setting the place your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You’ll assist us foster a tradition of fairness, variety and inclusion – a protected and respectful office, the place we invite everybody to carry their complete selves to work utilizing their distinctive abilities, backgrounds and experience to create transformational outcomes for our purchasers.

We are going to encourage you to develop and develop your profession with us by way of our technical {and professional} growth packages and numerous profession alternatives. We imagine in management in any respect ranges. Regardless of the place you sit within the group you can also make an enduring affect on the tasks you’re employed on, the groups and committees you be a part of and our enterprise.

We provide aggressive pay and advantages, well-being packages to assist you and your loved ones, and the event sources you should advance your profession.

While you be a part of us, you’ll join and collaborate with a worldwide community of consultants – planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and development managers – main the change towards a extra sustainable and equitable future. Be a part of us and let’s get began.

Job Description

Our multidisciplinary water setting workforce contains specialists in hydrogeology, hydrology, hydromorphology, water high quality and water useful resource administration.

There are at the moment 25 floor water specialists within the workforce with a substantial variety of abilities and expertise We work for purchasers from throughout the private and non-private sectors, together with the Surroundings Company, Native Authorities, Highways England, Pure England, Water Utilities, Rivers and Wildlife Trusts in addition to industrial builders and abroad purchasers. We’re additionally concerned in main ongoing tasks equivalent to HS2 and the Thames Tideway Tunnel and as a workforce are accountable for coordinating/ main water setting chapters in ES’s in addition to coordinating WFD assessments.

All members of the Water Surroundings workforce take an lively function in consumer contact and industrial features of our tasks. Well being, security and environmental concerns underpin every part that we do.

We’re searching for an skilled floor Water Scientist to affix our rising Water Surroundings workforce, a key part of AECOM’s wider environmental enterprise. It is a multi-disciplinary workforce at the moment with floor and groundwater specialists in geomorphology, hydrology, hydro-ecology, water high quality (together with sediments), water sources administration and hydrogeology.

We now have a formidable portfolio of water science tasks together with technical investigation, restoration tasks, and affect and WFD evaluation for main nationwide and worldwide infrastructure tasks. A number of our present and up to date tasks contains:

We’re searching for to recruit a Water Scientist to help with a variety of tasks. Nearly all of our work is within the fluvial setting, though a major proportion can also be targeted on estuaries, lakes and the marine setting, and so expertise of those environments is helpful.

It is a incredible alternative to additional your profession by gaining useful work expertise inside a specialist floor water setting workforce in a longtime consultancy. Your work will cowl a broad vary of hydrological, water high quality, hydromorphological and hydro-ecological actions together with on the next varieties of tasks:

• Growing catchment extensive river restoration plans for water firms;

• Growing a modelling method to tell administration choices at water degree dependent designated websites;

• Producing the Fish and Eel Go Information to allow protected passage at in channel buildings equivalent to pumping stations and weirs;

• Designing and serving to delivering awards fish passes and river restoration schemes;

• Deriving catchment enhancements for the River Rede, to enhance the well being of the river;

• Endeavor and reviewing exterior Nutrient Neutrality assessments;

• Endeavor desk research, session, water high quality monitoring, and web site surveys to evaluate the affect of main new infrastructure and developments together with WFD assessments and Environmental Allowing; and

• Growing water high quality monitoring programmes, air pollution prevention methods and mitigation / monitoring plans for the development of main infrastructure tasks.

You’ll work with different skilled members of the workforce who will information you as you begin engaged on reside tasks, together with groundwater assessments for quite a lot of tasks within the UK and abroad. An integral a part of your function can be report writing, evaluation, interpretation and presentation of knowledge.

Your obligations will embody:

• Water high quality research (e.g. baseline research, environmental affect evaluation, nutrient loading research and air pollution research together with monitoring and modelling);

• Hydrological investigations (e.g. flood, drought and water useful resource allocation);

• Geomorphological research, together with supporting channel enhancement/ restoration tasks, Pure Flood Administration research and Fluvial Audits.

• Hydroecological research (e.g. assessing the results of schemes on aquatic organisms equivalent to salmonids, freshwater pearl mussels, invertebrates and macrophytes);

• WFD / Environmental Compliance research;

• EIA (e.g. freeway, rail, aviation, utilities, energy era together with renewables, combined use/industrial/residential and different growth varieties);

• Air pollution prevention recommendation together with making ready Water Administration Plans, appearing as Environmental Clerk of Works, and creating sustainable therapy trains; and

• Functions for numerous permissions (e.g. Environmental Permits for flood threat actions and discharges, Water Abstraction / Impoundment Licences, and Land Drainage Consents).

{Qualifications}

REQUIREMENTS

• Diploma certified with an MSc in Geography, Geomorphology, Environmental Sciences, Environmental Engineering, Hydro-chemistry or comparable;

• Potential to conceptualise floor water setting points;

• Glorious report writing abilities;

• Sturdy analytical and numerical abilities;

• Potential to communicative successfully, each verbally and in writing;

• Have expertise utilizing GIS; and

• Full UK driving licence

DESIRABLE

• Language abilities;

• Expertise with databases, and modelling software program; and

• Preparation of figures and displays.

Extra Data

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting agency, delivering skilled companies all through the venture lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and development administration. On tasks spanning transportation, buildings, water, new vitality and the setting, our public- and private-sector purchasers belief us to resolve their most complicated challenges. Our groups are pushed by a typical objective to ship a greater world by way of our unequalled technical and digital experience, a tradition of fairness, variety and inclusion, and a dedication to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 agency and its Skilled Providers enterprise had income of $13.1 billion in fiscal 12 months 2022. See how we’re delivering sustainable legacies for generations to return at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Develop in a World of Alternative

You should have the flexibleness you should do your finest work with hybrid work choices. Whether or not you’re working from an AECOM workplace, distant location or at a consumer web site, you’ll be working in a dynamic setting the place your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You’ll assist us foster a tradition of fairness, variety and inclusion – a protected and respectful office, the place we invite everybody to carry their complete selves to work utilizing their distinctive abilities, backgrounds and experience to create transformational outcomes for our purchasers.

AECOM supplies a big selection of compensation and advantages packages to satisfy the various wants of our staff and their households. We additionally present a sturdy world well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted world infrastructure agency, and we’re on this collectively – your development and success are ours too.

Be a part of us, and also you’ll get all the advantages of being part of a worldwide, publicly traded agency – entry to industry-leading expertise and considering and transformational work with large affect and work flexibility. As an Equal Alternative Employer, we imagine in every individual’s potential, and we’ll assist you attain yours.

All of your info can be saved confidential in line with EEO pointers.

ReqID: REF23330H

Enterprise Line: Water

Enterprise Group: DCS

Strategic Enterprise Unit: Europe & India

Profession Space: Engineering

Work Location Mannequin: On-Website