Senior Water Advisor

Overview

Senior water advisor delivering water quality, flood risk & drainage treatment guidance.

Key Responsibilities

• pi management
• drainage programme
• stakeholder engagement
• drainage design
• r&d
• health & safety

Tasks

Safety, Engineering and Standards (SES) focuses on supporting outstanding operational delivery and providing expert technical advice for our road network. We also deliver essential services that lead, enable, and drive innovation in the development of the Strategic Road Network, while offering expert guidance on health and safety matters. The Senior Advisor position sits within the Water Environment Team, a team responsible for providing water quality and flooding operational advice and technical leadership to the company, whilst also leading the cross-company programme to renew and retrofit water quality treatment facilities at locations posing a pollution risk. As a Senior Advisor, you will provide specialist technical advice and guidance to the wider business and will support with the development, renewal and maintenance of National Highways assets. -Manage the company's Performance Indicator (PI) for Water Quality and ensure our metric governance processes are followed. -Support the team leader and the wider team to manage the programme of investment in drainage treatment facilities, including providing technical input and supporting programme managers to be effective in their role -Develop effective relationships with key organisations in the regulatory, professional, academic and NGO communities, including the Environment Agency, CIWEM and campaign groups. -Provide technical advice on Water Quality Environmental Impact Assessments, Flood Risk Assessments, Design and management of drainage treatment and attenuation facilities (including nature-based solutions) and water quality monitoring. -Lead, or support as necessary, research and development tasks designed to help us address key future challenges to the water environment (such tasks currently include research into understanding and addressing microplastics and other pollutants in highway runoff and understanding the future risk of flooding to the network under climate change).

Requirements

• data analysis
• project delivery
• stakeholder engagement
• professional membership
• water quality

What You Bring

Please note this is a hybrid position and can be based from any of our UK offices however travel to regional offices / sites to attend team meetings will be required. -Experience of managing and analysing data to provide useful intelligence to help decision makers -A track record of delivering projects with positive environmental outcomes -Experience of working with stakeholders and/or the public to understand the complexity of views involved in managing the environment; and finding mutually beneficial ways to progress work. -Membership of a relevant professional institution (CIWEM, CEng, IEng, MICE, or IStructE) working towards will also be considered. -A relevant degree / academic background in water quality, flooding or related discipline.

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Benefits

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

About National Highways

-Fueled by multi-billion-pound Road Investment Strategies, it delivers major upgrades like the A14 bypass and the smart motorway spine. -It engineers iconic projects—like the 1.8 km Hindhead Tunnel under the Devil’s Punch Bowl—and supports cutting-edge trials, including self-healing bitumen. -Operators and uniformed traffic officers patrol 24/7 from control centres, managing incidents, warning drivers, and keeping traffic flowing. -The authority sets design standards via the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges and publishes contract and maintenance frameworks used across the UK and Commonwealth. -Regulated by the Office of Rail and Road and guided by multi-year funding cycles, it balances reliability, safety, innovation and value for taxpayers.

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