Why This Role?
Are you ready to lead and grow a high-impact Water Environment and Resource Management capability within the UK water sector, shaping major sustainable infrastructure, non-infrastructure, flood risk and catchment management programmes while building a team and client portfolio around you? If so, we want to hear from you.
As an experienced and ambitious professional, you will have a background in the UK Water Sector with a good understanding of the challenges it faces as it adapts to a changing climate and increasing population. Your role will involve working with the wider water and environment business to help foster growth within our core Water Business. Additionally, you will collaborate with peers across all disciplines in our Water, Environment, Energy Transition and Nuclear service line, and to further develop existing and new relationships with clients to maximise our combined offerings and secure new wins.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead water environmental and water resources inputs across municipal water and wastewater programmes, flood and coastal erosion risk management (FCERM) strategies, appraisals and designs, natural flood management, blue-green solutions and sustainable drainage, , hydraulic modelling and strategic catchment-based solutions from feasibility through detailed design support.
- Provide strategic water-environment advice aligned to regulatory frameworks, ensuring compliance with UK legislation and water industry requirements while balancing environmental, operational and commercial considerations.
- Oversee preparation and review of technical deliverables, ensuring robust methodologies, high-quality reporting, defensible modelling outputs and clear audit trails for regulatory approval.
- Support multidisciplinary and stakeholder coordination, integrating environmental considerations into treatment, infrastructure and resilience schemes to ensure practical and sustainable outcomes.
Client Engagement & Delivery
- Act as a senior client-facing technical lead, facilitating workshops and technical reviews, advising water company, public sector and private clients, regulators and partners, and developing long-term, trusted relationships within the sector.
- Provide relevant design assurance, advice and technical support during delivery, including reviewing contractor proposals, responding to technical queries and supporting regulatory and stakeholder engagement where required.
Business Growth & Team Development
- Grow the Water Environment capability through business development and work winning, identifying strategic opportunities, shaping scopes, contributing to bids, and building a sustainable forward workload across AMP programmes.
- Translate the UK water growth strategy into delivery actions, identifying priority programmes (e.g., AMP8, SROs, flood and resilience opportunities), capability gaps and targeted investment areas.
- Build and lead the Water Environment team, including recruitment, mentoring, technical governance and structured skills development to strengthen capability across environmental planning and assessment.
- Collaborate with the wider business to enhance service offerings, developing integrated, sustainability-led solutions that support water company environmental commitments and long-term asset resilience.