Hydrology Technical Officer

Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You will be required to have an incident role and make yourself available to respond to incidents or provide business continuity support during an incident. Full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role. This may attract an additional payment.

You will work closely with your hydrology team members to provide professional advice and technical assessments on hydrological issues to customers and partners. Your work will inform decision making and contribute to protecting and improving the environment.

• Monitor our team mailbox and provide customer responses to e-mails including request for information, licence applications and data requests.
• Monthly Water Situation Reports (monthly external customer report published on gov.uk).
• Assist with updates to the resource assessments carried out as part of the abstraction licensing strategies in the area.
• Support the Area Drought Group with hydrological information including providing updates on river flows for dry weather incident response.
• Achieve our target for quality assuring river flow data.
• Complete weekly compensation checks, making timely decisions regarding their operation and communicating those with our customers.
• Updating various data sets including rainfall and reservoir information.

This role must be undertaken from within the UK and does NOT qualify for sponsorship. Visit the Government website and search for visas and immigration to seek professional advice regarding options for obtaining the right to work in the UK.

You will be mainly office based but there will be occasional fieldwork, for example carrying out surveys and collecting data. You will gain a practical understanding of the rivers and catchments in our area.

• Membership of BHS or CIWEM (or similar), possibly working towards chartership.
• Great career opportunities: you can potentially progress to grades 5 and 6 in hydrology or use your hydrological knowledge in a wide range of management and related technical roles.
• Strong organisational skills, including the ability to plan, track and deliver your own work, meeting the required timescales and standards.
• An interest in and an enthusiasm for hydrology, including an awareness of hydrological concepts (such as hydrology processes and catchment behaviour) and the different types of hydrological data (e.g. rainfall, river flow, groundwater level).
• Work experience in an operational water resources hydrology role, typically up to 3 years, or an equivalent, hydrology focussed, post-graduate qualification.
• Good written and spoken communication skills to convey information to a variety of audiences, including experience communicating technical information to a non-technical audience.
• A degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant environmental discipline. For example (but not limited to): Geography, Environmental Science, Ecology, Sustainability, Data Science, Geosciences, Engineering, Biology.
• Hydrological monitoring reports (West Midlands focused report).
• Experience of analysing data and information to solve problems, including good numerical and computer literacy.

This is an early to mid-career role which will allow you to build on your existing experience and knowledge of how hydrological data and techniques are used in the Environment Agency as well as develop technical leadership skills.

Options for flexible and/or part-time working may be considered on a case-by-case basis

Salary: £34,320 per annum

• An established structured training programme and professional development.
• Two additional days for paid environmental outcomes giving you the opportunity to take part in community activities.
• 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays for full-time employees.
• A generous pension scheme of 19%.
• A salary up to £34,320 per annum.
• Potential to further enhance your knowledge through an apprenticeship.
• Maternity, paternity, and adoption leave scheme.
• Overtime opportunities through standby and incident pay.