Hydraulic Modelling Specialist

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic environment within Water Operations and directly support Thames Water’s operational turnaround plan priorities. Operational Hydraulic modelling is at the core of our strategy of enabling various regulatory requirements and delivering the best customer service, with a defined career path and support towards becoming a technical expert within the water business.

As part of the Strategic Business Planning and Programmes team within Water Operations, you will play a critical role in ensuring top water quality and reduced leakage, while enabling the most optimum and energy-efficient supply of water to our customers.

What you’ll be doing as a Hydraulic Modelling Specialist

• Acting as the expert in Operational Hydraulic Modelling for the business, and advising other functions within the business, including Asset Management, Capital Delivery, and Clean Water Production, where necessary.
• Acting as a key point of contact, collaborating with colleagues and engaging with stakeholders to further our objectives. You will influence and inform colleagues and senior leadership on operational and investment decisions, including future strategic capital projects as well as Smart water tools.
• Led the Water Quality operational modelling, at various reservoir sites within TW, to ensure the most optimum strategy to transfer water across the hydraulic system is devised while maintaining good reservoir turnovers and mitigating any impact on Customer, Leakage and Energy.
• Assisting with building & maintenance of Hydraulic network models, along with management of any related operational led flow and pressure surveys.
• Pursuing a proactive review of priority model calibration anomalies, assisted by the wider technical teams and field resources – to enable further interrogation, calibration and verification of existing hydraulic models.
• Devising optimum system reconfiguration schemes, to assist Operations targets on Leakage as part of the Calm Systems workstream.
• Carrying out supply/demand mass balance assessments to identify key in-year/AMP operational resilience risks and devising any short-term operational mitigation until the longer-term investment takes place.
• Led a strategic initiative to review any high-risk and low-flow hydrants in the network, to devise operational solutions to ensure the fire flows are improved.
• Devising water supply solutions to remove Low Pressure and Supply Interruption risks within the year, in addition to solutions for emergency Operational Incidents, where appropriate.

What you should bring to the role

• Demonstratable experience in the use of hydraulic models, preferably with previous experience in the use of network modelling software like Infowater and Infoworks.
• Thames Water teams are currently in the process of transitioning to using Infoworks.
• Be a strong communicator who can engage and collaborate with colleagues to understand their challenges and needs, and support/present modelling-led business cases with senior stakeholders.
• Have excellent IT skills, and strong numeric and data analytical skills to generate accurate and detailed plans.
• Have excellent coordination skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks at one time.
• Comprehensive and strong ability to review and interpret complex data, conclude, make recommendations and informed decisions on a range of projects on strategic programmes.
• Ability to travel across our operational area, when required, for onsite investigations or office meetings.

What’s in it for you?

This role comes with the flexibility of hybrid working; with the base office located in Hampton, Greater London. However, the location is negotiable based on the successful candidate.

• Offering up to £60,000 per annum depending on skills and experience.
• 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service. (Plus bank holidays)
• Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution.
• Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year.
• Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.

Who are we?

Our business continues to operate as usual, delivering our essential services to around 16 million customers across London, Thames Valley and the Home Counties. 

At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life’s essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive. Water is life’s great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we’re committed to taking care of it for us all.

But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We need to keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?

Working at Thames Water

At Thames Water, we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.

We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, backgrounds, and differences that each individual brings.

Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.

Find out more about working at Thames Water.

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and earn some extra money along the way.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.