Job Description

Binnies are recruiting a highly experienced Water Quality & Catchment specialist to support our growing portfolio projects and clients. Binnies is a world-leader in Environmental and Critical Human Infrastructure projects in the Water and Flood Risk Management sector delivering exciting projects for clients including the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, Local Authorities and Water Utility Companies. Our team also works on other large infrastructure projects across sectors such as transport and renewable power. Our Catchment Management and Natural Capital teams are able to apply the full range of modelling tools and techniques available for evaluating catchment interventions and their impacts on water resources and water quality, and the subsequent benefits (covering both financial and wider benefits) that can be accrued. This role would in particular support our growing portfolio of water and catchment work where we are developing and testing innovative approaches to catchment management, and Solutions By Nature; a joint venture providing nature-based solutions via blue-green infrastructure to the water industry.

You would become an integral part of our multi-disciplinary National Environmental Services Team. We would be happy to welcome you into one of our offices in Redhill, Bradford on Avon, Swansea, Birmingham or Chester but we are open to candidates from across the country and can discuss flexible working.

We are a close team and have active Environmental Communities of Practice, including for our Water and Catchments professionals. Binnies pride ourselves on being at the forefront of environmental best practice and innovation and our environmental consultants are empowered to work closely with our multi-disciplinary teams and shape projects to deliver smarter and more sustainable solutions. Binnies hold the IEMA EIA Quality Mark which is a benchmark of our high standards in EIA delivery and is also a registered Ecological (CIEEM) and Landscape Practice (Landscape Institute).

About the Role

• Acting as a Technical Lead on water quality and catchment management related projects;
• Management and review of Water Framework Directive Compliance Assessments to support environmental assessments;
• Leading Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP) water resources and water quality management projects, including data analysis and interpretation;
• Advising on and evaluating catchment management planning/schemes/projects;
• Design and coordination of water monitoring programmes in line with best practice (e.g. surface water quality surveys, water level surveys, geomorphology surveys);
• Providing input to designs for river restoration, Integrated Constructed Wetlands and Natural Flood Risk Management projects;
• Advice on implications for the water environment from engineering designs, as well as development of mitigation and enhancement opportunities;
• Managing, reviewing and writing all stages of impact assessments associated with the water environment;
• Having a key role in growing our Water & Catchment work with both existing and new clients;
• Providing a supervisor role to more junior members of the Water and Catchment team.

Qualifications/Requirements

The role is suitable for an experienced Environmental professional with full professional membership (such as IEMA, IES or CIWEM). You should possess and be able to demonstrate the following qualifications, skills and knowledge:

• An environmental related degree;
• Chartered with a relevant institute;
• Excellent grounding in water quality, water resources and catchment management concepts, data management and assessments, studies and reporting in relation to catchment management, flood/coastal management, water utility or energy projects;
• Technical understanding and application of water quality, resources and catchment monitoring and modelling. Sound appreciation of diffuse pollution assessment, management and control;
• Successful track record in managing and delivering projects, working with inter-disciplinary teams;
• The ability to successfully manage project teams and be an integral member of the wider environmental team;
• Excellent written and oral communication;
• Hold a full UK driving licence;
• Previous experience of working in a consultancy environment.

Why Join Us

Would you like to work in a business where you feel empowered to grow? Where there is no place for criticism or discrimination? A place where people are mindful and respectful? If so, then Binnies is the place for you.

We have a strong \xe2\x80\x98ENGAGED\xe2\x80\x99 culture that runs through everything we do. Evolved over 100 years, we have a culture of caring, where our employee\xe2\x80\x99s wellbeing and work-life balance are priorities, in fact we have industry leading flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We pride ourselves on providing an inclusive working environment, where a diverse workforce is supported to grow and develop.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Flexible working (part time available, remote working)
• Flexible benefits e.g. buy annual leave, 9 day fortnight agreement, varying pension contributions, options for private healthcare

We develop intelligent solutions using our award-winning integrated planning and design approach to deliver functional infrastructure and lasting environmental and social legacies. This is backed by a culture that has stayed true since our foundation over 100 years ago. We create new possibilities for humanity through our innovative approach to delivery.

Together with our clients, we are always striving to find a smarter way to deliver projects. From providing low carbon, sustainable and resilient water solutions, flood alleviation and environment services, to connecting people with insights and data. Our business exists to improve the quality of life for our local communities today and for generations to come.

Binnies is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business providing dynamic, multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then. In fact, Environment Analyst recently highlighted RSK\xe2\x80\x99s growth commenting, \xe2\x80\x9cFew companies in the environmental services sector can claim to be expanding at the same pace as RSK.\xe2\x80\x9d Today, RSK Group consists of over 120 businesses and employs over 7,000 specialists. The group is headquartered in the United Kingdom and has an established presence in more than 40 countries around the world.

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