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Vacancy Details:
Closing Date: Friday 13th May 2022
This is an exciting opportunity to join a busy multi-disciplinary civil engineering team managing coastal flood and erosion risk on the south coast.
Working within our research team, you will be a coastal scientist/senior coastal scientist, helping to protect communities, the environment and shape our coastal landscape for future generations. By using your scientific knowledge, you will develop solutions by working across a variety of ground-breaking projects, with the opportunity to be involved in different aspects of coastal research, science and GIS analysis. The successful candidate will have experience or interest in the following areas:
Project Management
Working across the wider Coastal Partners project portfolio, this role requires undertaking technical project management for coastal process studies to inform Strategy Studies and Schemes. This involves working with in-house Coastal Partners research staff or external suppliers. The role also includes project management of Beach Management Plans and external research projects to better understand coastal processes through GIS analysis and modelling. You will have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and be good at report writing and presenting your results to a non-technical audience.
Technical analysis and modelling skills
Working with the research team and external consultants, you will oversee or undertake GIS analysis of data such as, aerial photography; lidar; topographic surveys or UAV data; bathymetry; habitat mapping; wave and tide data and tracer pebble tracking information. You will have an excellent background in geomorphology and coastal processes (if possible, on the south coast of England) and be strong in your hydro-dynamic understanding. Ideally you will have experience in sediment dynamics, overtopping of beaches and hard engineering structures; modelling; climate change, Beach Management Plan design and works; cliff erosion and landsliding and habitat mapping. In terms of software, you will have experience in ArcGIS and ideally Arc online, ArcPro, MIKE 21, Telemac, EUROTOP and Matlab.
You will require a degree or post-graduate degree in geo-sciences, engineering, coastal engineering or a closely related discipline. Ideally, we are looking for someone with extensive experience in coastal processes although welcome mid-career graduates. This is a career graded post with the initial salary dependent on experience and qualifications.