Hydraulic Modeller (Potable water network)

What you’ll be responsible for

As a member of the clean water hydraulic modelling team, you will play a key technical role in providing hydraulic modelling and network analysis services. You will be involved in supporting key business areas such as Water Distribution, Assets, Engineering, Quality, Capital delivery and Developer Services.

Your responsibilities will include: 
 

1. Developing and maintaining strong links and working collaboratively with our key customers.
2. Provide technical support to the hydraulic modelling team - ensuring accurate and efficient project and hydraulic modelling analysis delivery.
3. Oversee and deliver hydraulic modelling assessments (HMA’s) for all business areas where required. With the ability to critically review HMA’s produced by modelling team and framework partners.
4. Actively contribute to complete and maintain DCWW’s hydraulic model library.
5. Ensure technical reviews are undertaken following specifications, standards and governance within team and across business.
6. Explore and support innovation to drive value and service support from hydraulic modelling and model library.
7. Supporting DCWW’s Hydraulic Modelling Academy with delivering, increasing and supporting hydraulic and modelling knowledge and understanding across the business.
8. Participation and flexibility in a standby rota and with supporting Operational incidents when they occur.
    

Who you’ll work with

Internal

• Water Distribution
• Developer Services
• Capital teams
• Water Services Science
• Water Resources
• Water Engineering
• Asset Planning
• Liaison with senior stakeholders across the business

External

• Framework partners and supply chain businesses
• CWMAG, Universities, software, and technology providers
• Local authorities
• Wider water industry – other water companies and regulators such as DWI as required

About you

Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience & Skills 
 

• Preferable HNC/HND or Degree qualified – and/or willing to study towards a qualification in Engineering, Science, Environmental, or other analytical subject experience.
• Previous experience in clean water hydraulic modelling with expertise in build, calibration and scenario reporting. A good working knowledge of DNV Synergi software is preferred but not essential.
• Experience of water balance analysis, supply and demand analysis, operations, leakage detection, optimisation and control would be an advantage.
• An aptitude for problem solving and analytical thinking, equally comfortable problem solving and using initiative as well as being part of a high performing team.
• The ability to develop positive working relationships across the organisation, with external consultants and water industry experts.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills and ability to translate directives into actions that are fully understood by the team and organisation.
   

Good to know

• Working is hybrid, between head office – Linea, Cardiff, regional depots and remote.
• The successful candidate will be required to participate in a standby rota. 
• For more information, or an informal discussion regarding the role, please contact: Wayne.Coxley@dwrcymru.com

Benefits

As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:
 
 
•    Variable pay schemes (your salary band will remain the same, but performance depending, you could receive an incremental within-band increase and a yearly incentive)
•    Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year
•    Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
•    Enhanced family friendly policies
•    Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
•    Reduction on gym memberships and high street shopping
•    Cycle to work scheme
•    Free on-site parking at all our sites
•    Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
•    Car-leasing scheme
•    Health CashBack scheme
•    An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
 
 
Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers everyday, and about looking after our beautiful environment.
 
 
Please note, we may close this role sooner if required. We may also extend the original closing date depending on interest.
 
 

Who we are

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas.

To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision.  This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them.  The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company’s required security objectives.

We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work. 

To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve.

In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.


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