AddressAre you looking for a 'career making' opportunity? Are you wanting a better or more exciting possibility to fulfill your career goals, than what is currently available to you? Do you want to join one of the most successful, respected and awarded consultancies in Australia?
As the Hydrology Team Leader, reporting to the Environment Manager/Managing Director, this role is responsible for the leadership of Emerge’s Hydrology team.
Your Opportunity with Emerge
Working closely with the Managing Director, Directors, the Principal Consultants, and other Team Leaders, the role has a key focus on:
- Coordinating projects and technical tasks to deliver project outcomes including:
- Urban water management
- Catchment analysis and parameterisation
- Surface flow quantity and quality analysis
- Floodway and floodplain assessments
- Hydrological and hydraulic modelling
- Groundwater and surface water data review and analysis
- Hydrogeological analysis and reporting
- Water balance investigations
- Water management planning and strategies
- Report writing.
- Providing advice on water related issues to project teams (internal and external) and clients with support of the senior team members.
- Work with the broader Emerge team to provide technical inputs to a broad range of projects.
You will be welcomed into our firm, supported in your new role allowing learning, working and collaborating within our existing teams. Remuneration package will be tailored to suit the applicant’s experience and capability.
What Will You Bring?
Essential requirements:
- A Bachelor Degree in Engineering and/or Sciences or equivalent.
- Demonstrated experience in water resource engineering, hydrology or hydrogeology.
- Ability to critically think and problem solve.
- Strong report writing and communication skills (written and verbal).
- An enthusiasm, passion and willingness to guide the team to undertake project work.
- An ability to communicate and collaborate effectively within teams.
- High standards of professional and personal ethics.
Experience/attributes that would be desirable:
- Experience in a consulting-based role
- Experience in surface water or groundwater modelling
- Experience in field work (specifically installing bores, recording surface water and groundwater levels, and quality monitoring).
- Exposure to GIS software packages.
About Us
Emerge Associates is an established employee-owned firm providing both environmental and landscape architecture consulting services. We are a dynamic business with a positive workplace culture that is oriented around exceptional client service, high quality technical standards, a commitment to our organisational values and we have a strong focus on career development. We are proud of the standards that we set ourselves and to which we hold ourselves accountable.
Founded in 2010, Emerge provides clients with ‘Tier 1’ service but also greater value through a nimble, client focused and easy to deal with model. We believe that integrating environment and landscape disciplines within an employee-owned business model achieves this goal. This vision has contributed to Emerge becoming one of Australia’s most successful privately owned firms, with over 70 staff in offices located in Perth, Margaret River and Melbourne. We have established dedicated teams providing environmental consulting services covering contaminated sites and acid sulfate soils, environmental planning and management, hydrology and urban water management, ecology, bushfire and sustainability.
Our success means that we now enjoy the confidence of many ‘top tier’ private clients and government agencies because we are committed to solutions that deliver great outcomes. We do this through the application of creative thinking, robust science, practical solutions, and effective communication. Our culture, clients and technical focus allows us to attract, retain and reward the best staff in the industry.
What makes Emerge special?
The people and culture, no doubt. Emerge is the right size where everyone is known and is an important part of the team. Decisions regarding the business operation are made locally and the business owners and Directors work on projects on a daily basis. With a flat structure, multiple offices, diverse practice areas, people, clients and projects, you will have plenty of opportunity to develop and be challenged. We trust our people to make autonomous decisions, so they feel empowered, and in turn we enjoy our client’s trust and respect.
Rewards
Emerge employs the best people in our business and we believe they are rewarded accordingly. Remuneration will be negotiated based on your skills, experience and value offering.
Emerge offers a supportive and collaborative working environment. We have:
- An active social calendar
- Flexible working arrangements
- Parental leave and purchased additional annual leave
- Workplace giving/volunteering opportunities
- Employee reward and recognition program
- Professional and technical development opportunities
To Apply
For more information on who we are, please head to our website www.emergeassociates.com.au.
To be considered for this role you must be able to demonstrate permanent working rights and provide the following by 28th May 2024:
- A statement demonstrating (including examples) how you meet the position requirements and fulfil the responsibilities
- CV
- Three referees
