Hydrogeologist

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Overview

AtkinsRéalis one of the worlds leading providers of engineering professional consulting and support services with offices across Ireland.

We are looking for a hydrogeologist to join our team and work at the forefront of managing the challenges of providing resilient and environmentally sustainable water supplies for the future while ensuring water habitats are protected from new infrastructure development. We are undertaking an increasing number and range of important and exciting projects that involve groundwater resource evaluation development and management and environmental impact investigation for water companies other major water users and regulators. Building on this success we are growing our team and this growth could include you. You could help us to win and deliver work across our extensive client portfolio and enhance our reputation for excellence.

As an already experienced and ideally chartered hydrogeologist you will have led and delivered groundwater related project tasks in Ireland the UK and/or internationally. You will work closely with our technical specialists who are based in our established teams across Ireland both the Republic and in the North and in the UK. We have a friendly and approachable team with a strong reputation for delivering excellence with multiple clients.

Your role

• Win deliver and manage a portfolio of hydrogeology projects.
• Develop trusted client relationships.
• Champion high standards of performance and influence project development.
• Undertake work to a high standard ensuring accuracy and quality.
• Undertake and delegate complex problem solving data gathering processing calculations modelling and conceptualisation.
• Write high quality reports and impact assessment.
• Undertake proposal writing and costing.
• Work closely with other hydrogeologists sometimes delegating to reviewing the work of and mentoring more junior staff.
• Work collaboratively with other technical disciplines.

About you

• A degree in science engineering or mathematics.
• Chartered or equivalent.
• Demonstrable experience within consultancy water company regulator or academic fields.
• Experience of water resources hydrogeology.
• Understanding links between surface and groundwater abstraction flooding and low flows.
• Knowledge of the Water Framework Directive.
• Experience of groundwater and aquifer catchment water quality.
• Experience of contaminated land and relation to groundwater.
• Experience of Water Chapters for EIARs.
• Experience of WFD screening scoping and assessment reports.
• Knowledge of the operational and environmental regulatory framework of water management in Ireland.
• A good understanding of Irish hydrogeology in particular the karstic systems common in Ireland.
• You will have valid full clean Irish driving licence.
• Experience of signal and pumping tests borehole design groundwater flooding and/or water resource planning.
• Experience of the UK Water industry and No Deterioration Environmental Destination Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP) Water Resources Management Planning (WRMP) and drought planning.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries and a brilliant range of health wellbeing financial and lifestyle benefits. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture international remote working opportunities and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

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About AtkinsRéalis

Were AtkinsRéalis a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people data and technology to transform the worlds infrastructure and energy systems. Together with our industry partners and clients and our global team of consultants designers engineers and project managers we can change the world. Were committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Additional information

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So we offer a range of family friendly inclusive employment policies flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer we value applications from all backgrounds cultures and ability.

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At AtkinsRéalis we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender ethnic or national origin sexual identity and orientation age religion or disability but enriches itself through these differences.