Hydraulic Modeller

**About us**:
Haskoning Australia delivers tailor made engineering and scientific solutions to our clients across Australia, the Pacific and South East Asia. We are experts in the river, estuarine, coastal and maritime sectors, providing consultancy advice and civil and structural design services to clients in a number of relevant sectors, including (but not limited to): ports and harbours; coastal and flood defence; water management; land reclamation; dredging and material management; planning and policy setting; and all other forms of water’s edge development (i.e. energy, recreation, military, telecommunication etc).

We are seeking a **_Hydraulic Flood Modeller_** to join our growing team in Sydney to deliver discipline specific flooding and stormwater management modelling and design engineering services. You will be part of a larger East Coast Water Management Team and working on a number of projects in Australia an in the APAC region.

**About the role**:
Core tasks
- Initiate, manage and supervise Flood Resilience and Water Resources engineering assignments on projects that meet project requirements on time and within budget.
- Develop necessary local technical systems and standards, and integrate with broader Royal HaskoningDHV knowledge base.
- Consult and liaise with colleagues throughout Royal HaskoningDHV nationally and internationally in the Civil / Water Resources Engineering disciplines to share information, lessons learnt, innovative approaches to problem solving, and the like.
- Conduct appropriate investigations, studies, analyses, detailed design and documentation, and recommend actions.
- Provide technical advice to engineers from other disciplines and co-ordinate the activities of other engineers and designers.
- Provide training, guidance and mentoring to other professional staff.
- Show independence and performance in all skills and responsibilities.
- Contribute to the development of the client base within the office through the interaction with clients including strong face to face engagement.
- Identify issues and problems and develop appropriate and innovative solutions.
- Keep up-to-date with the latest developments and technical innovations in the disciplines required to deliver Flood Resilience and Water Resources projects.
- Ability to travel for one or two days to Newcastle or other NSW (or interstate) destinations on a regular basis (once every week or two), and potentially internationally (occasionally) for project assignments or meetings, as needed to meet client requirements.
- Project Management of up to 1-4 projects (depending on project size) including financial management, QA/QC, Project Forecasting, invoicing and client liaison as required to provide financially viable and profitable projects.
- Competency in a range of Water Resources, Flood Resilience Modelling and Flood Risk Analytics Software, including WBNM, RAFTS, TUFLOW (essential), 3Di, DRAINS, MUSIC, 12D.Competency in a range of Design, GIS and mapping software tools.Competency in Programming software: MATLAB, Python.
- Previous experience and working knowledge of hydrology, flood hydraulics, flood analytics, fluvial and coastal processes and coastal oceanography.
- Essential experience in flood related projects including Flood Studies and Floodplain Risk Management Studies, Flood Impact Assessments and Climate Change Impact Assessments for NSW Councils, or other Councils across Australia.

**Competencies**:

- Highly effective technical and practical skills in the disciplines of flood resilience (coastal and fluvial).
- Provides direction and advice on technical matters, teaches, mentors others in the team, as appropriate
- Able to consistently deliver quality, accurate and timely work
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Awareness of financial and business targets
- Confident and personable
- Team Player
- Independent thinker
- Good organisational skills
- Qualification and Experience:
**Qualification & Experience**:

- Essential_
- Civil &/ or Environmental Engineering Degree
- Experience in coastal and fluvial flood risk and flood risk analytics.
- Desirable:_
- Post graduate qualifications / specialisation in civil / water resources engineering water resources, coastal processes

**What we offer**:

- Competitive salary and benefits
- Flexible working
- Paid Parental and Partner Leave
- Purchased additional annual leave