Job Description
Technical Director, Water Resource Engineer role involves leading technical excellence, mentorship, business development, and project delivery in the mine water team, with a focus on financial performance, client service excellence, and technical service excellence.
The role requires a senior leadership position with a specific focus on technical expertise, mentorship, business development, and project delivery. The Technical Director, Water Resource Engineer will be responsible for building and maintaining the mine water team project backlog and supporting the day-to-day delivery of projects.
- Provide senior technical direction, review, and sign-off of work within your area of professional practice.
- Deliver practice-leading consulting services to internal and external clients in the areas of conceptual model development, hydraulics, engineering design, mine water management, stormwater management, flood-lines, hydrology, water conservation, and demand management.
- Direct and review water resource aspects of a range of international mining and water resources projects, including environmental assessments, environmental permitting, and engineering design projects.
- Climatic, hydrological, and hydraulic assessments, including fieldwork, data management, data analysis, and modeling;
- Integrated water management plans and completing conceptual design of water management infrastructure;
- Water balance modeling to assess water management solutions and to estimate water demand, treatment, storage, and discharge volumes;
- Pre-feasibility, feasibility, and detailed designs of water management infrastructure (e.g. open channels, sewers, culverts, spillways, energy dissipators, holding and settling ponds, pumping systems) including capital and operating cost estimates;
- Dam break analyses of water and tailings dams, including developing inundation maps, delineating self-rescue zones, and classifying dams in terms of risk to population, property, and the environment;
- Dilution and assimilative capacity assessments of surface water receivers of effluent;
- Flood Risk Assessments (FRA) and Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) design for land development projects;
- Assist with developing projects and services which support climate change reporting, resilience, and adaptation, including nature-based solutions;
- Participate in and direct multi-disciplinary project teams on local, regional, and international consulting projects, so they are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and to client and WSP's standards.
Key qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in engineering, hydrology, or a related field, and a postgraduate qualification in engineering or environmental management. The ideal candidate will be a Registered Chartered/Professional Engineer or member of a related professional body.
Competencies include technical excellence, client focus, leadership, strong mentorship, strategist, diplomat, ownership attitude, and corporate awareness.