Senior Project Engineer - Water Services Flooding & Drainage
- Ballincollig, Co Cork
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Report to Line Manager / Business Unit Leader.
- Work as part of an integrated team to deliver high quality engineering services for our clients. You may be expected to work on delivery of multiple projects concurrently.
- Provide technical input to our cross sector multidisciplinary internal project teams supporting the delivery of transportation, commercial/residential development and environmental infrastructure projects.
- Prepare technical reports and effectively communicate outputs to our clients.
- Further develop and broaden the technical capacity of the flooding and drainage team.
- Level 8 degree in Civil / Environmental Engineering or related discipline. A post graduate Level 9 Masters would be advantageous.
- Membership of a professional body such as Engineers Ireland or Institution of Civil Engineers
- Have a strong desire to develop and broaden your existing competencies to Chartered Engineer Level.
- You will be project focussed, proactive and independent, and able to provide a supporting project management role.
- Candidates should have a proven ability to deliver project and tasks to a high quality, on time and within budget.
- You will have proven relevant experience in the design/delivery of one or more of the following - flood risk assessment & management, flood defence infrastructure, surface water collection & management systems.
- You will have excellent working knowledge and understanding of flood hydrology and hydraulic processes.
- You will have significant experience in open channel and network hydraulic modelling within Infoworks ICM and a strong knowledge of model application to solving real world problems.
- Able to produce high quality reports, presentations and deliverables to clearly communicate complex issues, demonstrate logically analysis and provide robust justification design decisions and statements made.
- Ability to undertake a key technical role responsible for full hydraulic model output delivery.
- In addition to a high level of competency in Infoworks ICM experience with FloodModeller, Estry, TuFlow, HEC-RAS 1D/2D or similar models would be beneficial.
- A detailed understanding of Flood Risk Management Methods, Nature-based Solutions and wider catchment, river and drainage processes.
- Experience in providing specialist technical knowledge and advice on hydraulic modelling issues to project team members.
- Have a strong knowledge and experience of applying thorough QA principles in hydraulic modelling to ensure results are fit for delivery.
- Ability to apply hydraulic modelling outputs to define and design civil engineering infrastructural elements to meet project objectives.
- Working experience of economic appraisal of projects and plans, using CBA and MCA techniques would be beneficial
- Desire to contribute to the technical development of the team and our application of best-practice principles and concepts to engineer innovative solutions for clients.
- Experience working on multi-disciplinary projects collaboratively with engineering, planning and environmental professionals
- Aptitude to work independently to support effective and timely delivery of projects
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with clients, suppliers and other RPS staff.
- Able to approach all your tasks in a diligent, professional and organised manner;
- Experience in the use of civil engineering design packages e.g., CAD, Civil 3D.
- Knowledge and experience in the use GIS software in QGIS or Arc.
- Excellent IT skills, familiar with relevant computer applications; MS Office (MS Word and MS Excel.
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