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Principal Water Resource Planner (6149)

Stantec's water resources team are seeking enthusiastic people with at least 5 to 10 years of experience in the water industry to play central roles in delivering our workload
By: Stantec UK

The Opportunity

Find your focus, grow with us, and be a part of the solution to the water challenges that face us in our future. How will you make a difference?

Do you recognise the vital part water plays in human health, the environment and the economy? Are you aware of the significant challenges we face providing water in a world of changing climate, improving standards of sustainability and population growth? If you are looking to be part of a team that is on the forefront of building a resilient and sustainable water supply for both the UK and our international clients then we would be interested to hear from you!

Stantec is a top tier global consultancy, that was named the ‘Best Place to Work’ at the 2024 New Civil Engineer (NCE) Awards. We have a reputation for providing innovative water supply solutions, as well as environmental and regulatory services for a range of public and private sector clients in the UK.  We have ambitious growth targets in the water resources planning market and are seeking enthusiastic people with at least 5 to 10 years of experience in the water industry to play central roles in delivering our workload.

We have opportunities to join our water resources planning team at numerous locations across the UK (including Birmingham, Redditch, High Wycombe, Reading and Shrewsbury – other office locations could be considered) along with opportunities to join collaborative projects with global Stantec teams.

About this opportunity

It’s an exciting time to be involved in water resources in the UK. In recognition of the considerable challenges we face in the future the industry regulator Ofwat has set out the biggest investment in infrastructure since privatisation. With £4 billion to boost water supply and £2 billion for nature based solutions in the recently published draft determination for the period 2025-30. This includes funding for significant solutions to ensure long-term national resilience, security of supply for the future and lowering demand through unprecedented leakage reduction and smart meter installation programmes.

Stantec’s engagement with water resources planning initiatives across the UK and Ireland has grown significantly since 2020. This has included working across several Strategic Resource Option (SRO) investigations in England and Wales, Water Resource Management Plans (WRMPs), Drought Plans and WINEP investigations. This continues to be a growing focus for Stantec in 2024 and beyond, helping water companies deliver their AMP8 schemes and plan for the future.

Our water resources planning team works with water companies, regulators (such as the Environment Agency and Ofwat), design engineers, contractors, planners, and other stakeholders to help achieve positive outcomes for projects.

As a senior member of our multidisciplinary and collaborative teams, you will:

  • Be responsible for the full lifecycle of projects from inception to handover, ensuring they adhere to scope, budget, timescale, quality and regulatory requirements. You will lead by example, advising less senior team members and reviewing their work.
  • Be expected to bring significant experience to the team in technical areas such as development of WRMPs, Regional plans, Drought Plans, water resource models, demand management, option development, optimisation, regulatory environmental assessment (HRA, SEA, WFD etc) and development of SROs through the RAPID led gated process.
  • Be willing to support the wider water resources team when required, complementing the other specialisms within the team and working flexibly on a variety of projects.
  • Grow and leverage your internal and external networks to achieve positive outcomes for your projects.

Run commercial projects, bids and proposals on time within budget and quality constraints with limited supervision. Provide strategic insight in bid selection and the direction of work in the team for AMP8.

About you

We welcome people from varied backgrounds (regulatory, water company or consultancy) who have recent experience applying their water resources knowledge in policy and technical areas. We are looking for people used to working in fast paced multidisciplinary teams, working closely with their clients, statutory authorities, and other stakeholders. Ideally you will have had previous involvement in the assessment and development of WRMPs, regional plans, SROs or Drought Plans.

We are looking for:

  • Extensive experience in leading and managing assessment and development of WRMPs, drought plans and regional plans, development of components of the supply-demand balance, hydrological, hydrogeological and/or water resources assessment, demand forecasting, options appraisal or development of risk and uncertainty.
  • Extensive experience in WINEP investigations, Environmental Destination, Water Framework Directive assessments, Permitting and Abstraction licencing, wider catchment management, climate change impact assessments and options appraisals.
  • Detailed understanding of the latest regulatory requirements of UK Water resources Management including the Water Resource Planning guidelines.
  • Project management experience, including management of larger project teams and more challenging or complex projects.
  • Track record of good client relationships.
  • A degree in a relevant subject, such as geography, geological sciences, environmental science, civil or environmental engineering and preferably hold a postgraduate degree in hydrology, hydrogeology and/or water resources management.
  • Actively involved with relevant institutions such as CIWEM, Institute of Civil Engineers or the Institute of Water and a professional chartership.

 

About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities. 

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities. 

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is a crucial key to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply.

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New Malden pipe-track contains 3 (No.) 30” and 1 (No.) 48” trunk mains, with the oldest main being nearly 170 years old. The mains feed the Surbiton supply zone and serve as bulk transfer mains to supply south-west London. Kingston Council is going to build a new cycleway over the track; however, these mains are […]
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Nine Elms, Battersea Growth & SuDS (2018)
The Nine Elms redevelopment area within Battersea includes 21,000 new dwellings, office, leisure and retail space creating 8000 new jobs including the new US Embassy, a relocated New Covent Garden Market site and the Northern Line extension. An integrated water management study completed by Thames Water (TW) in partnership with the Greater London Authority, ARUP […]
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Plymouth Central STW Stormwater UV Irradiation (2018)
The European Union’s (EUs) revised Bathing Water Directive (rBWD) (2006/7/EC) came into force in March 2006 replacing Bathing Water Directive (BWD) (76/1160/EEC). The overall objective of the revised directive is the protection of public health. From November 2015, a new classification system for bathing waters (excellent, good, sufficient or poor) was introduced, with more stringent […]
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Thames Water UPM Scoping Studies (2018)
The Environment Agency (EA) identified a number of waterbodies which were deemed to be at risk of deterioration or failure to achieve the Water Framework Directive (WFD) ‘good’ status due to the impacts from wet weather discharges from the urban wastewater network. Seventeen of these waterbodies were within the Thames Water region and the risk […]
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Trinity Broads Mud Pumping Project (2018)
The Norfolk Broads is a low-lying landscape of interconnected lakes (broads) and streams and large parts are also Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) and contain a number of protected species of flora and fauna. One area of the Norfolk Broads; the Trinity Broads, provides raw water to Ormesby Water Treatment Works (WTW) operated by […]
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Woolston WwT Scheme - Part 3 (2018)
Built in 1966, Woolston Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) uses a conventional Activated Sludge Plant (ASP) to treat sewage flows from part of the Southampton conurbation. Serving a population of approximately 62,000, the site occupies an area of 1.26 hectares. The existing sewerage system which feeds into the WwTW collects both wastewater and stormwater from the […]
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Basingstoke Sludge Treatment Centre (2017)
The Basingstoke Sludge Treatment Centre (STC) incorporates liquid and caked, raw sludge import facilities together with thermal hydrolysis and anaerobic digestion plant which will process 53tDS/day of sludge from Basingstoke, Farnham, Fleet, Guilford and Newbury. This will fulfil Thames Water’s strategy to cease unsustainable liming activities at the four satellite sites up to the 2036 […]
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Beckton to Riverside Sludge Mains Refurbishment (2017)
Thames Water Utilities Limited (TWUL) currently transfer a proportion of the wastewater sludge generated by Beckton Sewage Treatment Works (STW) in East London to Riverside STW using 2 (No.) 8km buried pipelines. These twin pipelines were originally installed in the late 1960s to pump sludge in the opposite direction from Riverside to Beckton where it […]
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BRP - PAC Dosing System - Birmingham Resilience Project (2017)
Frankley Water treatment Works (WTW) provides a potable water supply to the metropolitan area of Birmingham, and has done so for over a century. Currently it treats water that is conveyed by gravity from the Elan Valley in Powys, Wales. Severn Trent Water is in the process of upgrading Frankley WTW to accommodate a new […]
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Cowley Trunk Main Project (2017)
Following a burst on the existing 24” trunk main running along the Oxford Eastern Bypass in September 2014 causing severe flooding, Thames Water made the decision to replace the high risk section of the main to prevent future pipe failures. The Optimise Joint Venture delivered the £6m project, installing 2km of replacement trunk main along […]
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Heybridge Sea Gate & Lock Gate Replacement (2017)
At the start of construction for the Hanningfield Raw Water Reservoir, an Act of Parliament The Hanningfield Water Order 1950 was passed with agreements put in place for the maintenance of the lock between the navigation company (Essex Waterways) and Northumbrian Water Group (NWG), parent company of Essex and Suffolk Water. NWG abstracts water from […]
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Horsley WTW (2017)
Northumbrian Water’s Horsley WTW serves around 800,000 people in the Newcastle and Tyneside area. The original works was constructed in 1977 and last extended in 2003. It draws its supply from the nearby River Tyne at Ovingham and the Whittle Dene complex of reservoirs fed from Kielder Water. The existing works has a capacity of […]
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Littlemore Sewage Pumping Station (2017)
As part of the Thames Water AMP5 programme of works, Optimise was instructed to carry out an upgrade to the terminal pump station feeding Oxford STW located in Littlemore, Oxford. The terminal pump station handles flow from a population of 200,000 and the condition of the station was of considerable concern to the Environment Agency, […]
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Llyn Teifi Spillway Rehabilitation Works (2017)
Llyn Teifi Reservoir is situated in a remote area on the western slopes of the Cambrian Mountains in Ceredigion, west Wales, and was created in the early 1960s by raising a natural lake. It is impounded behind six embankments constructed across natural low spots along its south-western margin, covering an area of just over 25 […]
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Margate & Broadstairs Wastewater Pumping Stations (2017)
In 2008, Southern Water completed significant improvements to the wastewater treatment infrastructure serving the North Thanet catchments of Margate and Broadstairs to meet the requirements of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive. The existing marine head works at Joss Bay, Broadstairs and at North Foreland, Margate were upgraded to process screened flows and remove grit, […]
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Mogden STW (2017)
Mogden Sewage Treatment Works is the second largest in the UK. The first phase was built between 1931 and 1935 at a cost of £1.7 million and covers an area of 55 hectares. The facility treats wastewater from a population equivalent of 1.9 million across a 60 square mile catchment area of north and west […]
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Netheridge STW (2017)
Netheridge Sewage Treatment Works (STW) is one of Severn Trent Water’s key sites in the south west of the region serving the city of Gloucester, discharging final effluent to the River Severn. The works currently serves a population equivalent of 197,940 which is predicted to increase to 218,815 by the 2034-35 design horizon. The site […]
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Saltend WwTW (2017)
Yorkshire Water’s Saltend WwTW had a history of environmental under-performance which resulted in a significant number of customer complaints due to odour. Between September 2015 and May 2016, £18m of refurbishment and upgrade work was carried out on a fast track basis to improve this performance. Commercial arrangements were adjusted from normal framework conditions to […]
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Walton Eel Screens (2017)
In January 2010 the Eels (England and Wales) Regulations 2009 came into force which gave the Environment Agency new powers to protect and to conserve the population of eels in the rivers of England and Wales. The abstraction point for Thames Water’s Walton Advanced Water Treatment Works in Walton, Surrey, removed a maximum of 900ML/D […]
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Whitburn Spill Reduction (2017)
Northumbrian Water is required to provide investment to reduce spills at Whitburn and St Peter’s, Sunderland in order to comply with the requirements of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD) by December 2017. Sunderland (north) is an urban catchment of predominantly residential properties and is home to Sunderland’s Blue Flag award winning beaches at […]
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Woolmans Wood Phase 2 (2017)
Between 2011 to 2013, Southern Water invested £14m replacing old water mains in the Chatham, Gillingham and Rochester. An additional £8 million is now being invested to replace a further 28km of 85-year-old water mains and service pipes to further improve water supply pipes and reduce the risk of discoloured water. The Chatham supply zone […]
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Woolston WwT Scheme - Part 2 (2017)
Built in 1966, Southern Water’s Woolston WwTW uses conventional activated sludge plant (ASP) to treat sewage flows from part of the Southampton conurbation, serving a population of approximately 62,000 people. The site occupies an area of 1.26 hectares. The existing sewerage system which feeds into the WwTW collects both wastewater and stormwater from the Woolston […]
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BRP - Treated Water Project - Birmingham Resilience Project (2016)
Frankley WTW is located to the south west of Birmingham city centre. It is the primary water treatment works supplying potable water to the city of Birmingham. The Elan Valley Aqueduct (EVA) is a 118km gravity aqueduct that conveys raw water from the Elan Reservoirs in mid Wales to Frankley WTW. The Elan Reservoirs are […]
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Fellgate Surface Water Management (2016)
Fellgate estate in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear has a history of flooding and suffered extensive property flooding in 2012, affecting 175 properties. Flooding originated from sewers, highway drainage, runoff from land, small water courses and ditches during heavy rainfall. Northumbrian Water and the local authority South Tyneside Council share responsibility for surface water management and […]
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Hastings Bathing Water Improvement Scheme (2016)
Hastings Beach on the southern coast of the UK was identified at risk of failing the European Union revised Bathing Water Directive. If the bathing water failed, Hastings Borough Council (HBC) would be legally required to put up signs warning the public of poor water quality. MWH (now Stantec UK) targeted ‘high beneficial’ interventions by […]
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Highbridge SPS Stormwater UV Disinfection (2016)
Being classed as ‘poor’ quality, the bathing water at Burnham Jetty was predicted to fail under the revised Bathing Water Directive (rBWD). Investigations during AMP5 showed that improvements to sewage overflows at Highbridge and Bridgwater were necessary to improve compliance; with disinfection of the stormwater discharge at Highbridge Sewage Pumping Station (SPS) being identified for […]
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Turners Road Penstock Chambers Upgrade (2016)
As part of the Thames Water (TW) AMP5 programme of works, it was necessary to remove and upgrade condemned platforms within two interlinked penstock chambers on the Low Level No. 1 (LL1) and Low Level No. 2 (LL2) sewers, which are two of the largest and most important in London. The chambers sit beneath a […]
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Woolston WwT Scheme - Part 1 (2016)
Construction works are now in their second year on Southern Water’s £63 million environmental improvement scheme to redevelop and completely modernise Woolston WwTW. (The first year of the Woolston WwT Scheme was detailed in the 2015 edition of UK Water Projects). The existing works uses a conventional activated sludge plant (ASP), built in 1966, treating […]
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Woolston WwT Scheme (2015)
Work has started on a £63m environmental improvement scheme to redevelop and completely modernise Woolston WwTW. The existing works uses a conventional activated sludge plant (ASP), built in 1966, treating sewage flows from part of the Southampton conurbation, serving a population of approximately 62,000 people. The site occupies an area of 1.26 hectares. The existing […]
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