Mott Macdonald
A global engineering, management, and development consultancy delivering innovative solutions.
Hydrologist
Perform hydrology and climate impact studies, modelling water resources and flood risk.
Job Highlights
About the Role
• Low flow assessments and water systems modelling to define water availability during droughts • Estimate future climate variable changes using global or regional projections • Conduct flood hydrology studies incorporating climate change impacts • Perform hydropower feasibility studies, defining design floods and verifying energy generation • Carry out climate change risk assessments of assets or asset portfolios
Key Responsibilities
- ▸low flow
- ▸water modelling
- ▸climate forecast
- ▸flood study
- ▸hydropower feasibility
- ▸risk assessment
What You Bring
• Hold a relevant degree (e.g., hydrology, geography, mathematics, civil engineering) • Knowledge of low‑flow hydrology, rainfall‑runoff modelling, and applying UKCP18/CMIP5‑6 climate projections • Demonstrated willingness to innovate • Excellent communication and written skills • Understanding of UK water resources management planning regulatory requirements (desirable) • Experience with water systems modelling tools such as Aquator, WEAP, or Pywr (desirable) • Proficiency in coding or statistical techniques (desirable)
Requirements
- ▸relevant degree
- ▸low‑flow hydrology
- ▸water modelling
- ▸coding
- ▸communication
- ▸innovation
Benefits
Whether you aim to excel in your specialist area or broaden your experience through flexible roles, you’ll join a community of global experts who champion you to be your best. At Mott MacDonald everyone has the opportunity to be brilliant and to shape their own story. Mott MacDonald combines heritage, vision and values into an ethos that encourages innovative thinking and career progression in technical, management or commercial/client‑facing directions. You will control your own career path, supported by mentoring, training and opportunities to take on new challenges and greater responsibilities. Alongside your technical role you can develop project‑management and business‑development skills by engaging with water‑sector and regulatory‑framework clients. Our employee‑owned structure offers flexibility to pursue our values freely, giving you control over your technical direction and the chance to face new challenges. Flexible working is supported at Mott MacDonald; we help staff create work‑life balance and are open to discussing flexible arrangements during the interview stage. Our benefits package is designed to enhance your experience and includes agile working, critical illness and compassionate leave, paternity leave, group life and medical insurance, career mobility options, global employment opportunities and a culture of global collaboration and knowledge sharing.
Work Environment
Hybrid