This is a unique opportunity for an experienced flood developer to join our organisation and help us minimise the impact of floods across the globe.
You’ll be joining a highly skilled team of flood modellers, geospatial developers, hydrometerologists, software engineers and forecasting specialists.
We have an employee led remuneration team to ensure we listen to our employees’ wants and needs in order to find great benefits that are right for them, so you can rest assured that your professional and personal life will be taken care of with us!
The Role
As a Flood Modeller, you will take a leading role on validating flood forecasting, undertaking bespoke flood modelling projects and processing datasets for our global expansion. You are expected to automate the validation process and respond to internal and external requests in a timely fashion.
You will also contribute to R&D projects in the area of flood modelling.
There will be opportunities to work on various parts of our technology stack, working with flood modellers, hydrometrologists, software engineers and devops team, in a fast-paced environment.
Additionally, you will:
- Supervise junior GIS analysts and quality-control their outputs
- Write and support innovation grants
- Write project reports
About You
To be considered as a Flood Modeller, you will need:
– A minimum of two years’ experience in flood modelling using 1D and/or 2D software packages
– Experience of independently delivering flood modelling projects
– Experience of sourcing and processing large geospatial datasets for flood modelling and flood risk assessments
– Python coding experience in geoprocessing
– Experience with common geospatial processing Python libraries
– Experience working in an agile business environment
– Excellent GIS skills and a proven record in delivering data products
– An understanding of flood modelling and hydrology
– An understanding of data requirements and availability for numerical flood modelling
– Good knowledge of geospatial statistics
– An MSc degree or equivalent
Other organisations may call this role Flood Risk Modeller, Flood Risk Consultant, Hydraulic Modeller, or Flood Risk Engineer.
The Benefits
• Competitive salary and company option
- The position is based either in our Loughborough or London office although we will consider flexible working arrangements. The applicant will need to have the right to work in the UK.
Equality and diversity
- Previsico is an equal opportunities employer. We value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.
Pay and working arrangements
- Competitive salary and company share option scheme.
- The position is based either in our Loughborough or London office although we will consider flexible working arrangements. The applicant will need to have the right to work in the UK.
Start date: Immediately available
To apply: Please send a CV and Cover Letter to [email protected]
Closing date: 29th February 2023
