In your role as a Flood Risk Analyst you will act in both a technical and assistant project management role. You will take a technical role in the execution of flood risk assessments, strategic flood risk assessments, Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Plans, outline and detail design of flood relief schemes and inputs to other technical documents. You will be called upon to use your environmental and related skills to ensure project success.

 You will be required to work closely within a team drawn from a wide range of specialisms on multi-disciplinary projects.

 This role can be based from offices in Dublin, Cork or Limerick. 

 Key competencies required for the role of Analyst are:

• Technical Capability
• Team Working
• Personal Effectiveness
• Increasing level of project management competence

In addition to the general responsibilities associated with being an Analyst, specific responsibilities will be allocated appropriate to your expertise and duties and will include a focus on hydrology and hydraulic modelling. However, you are required to be flexible in the work you carry out and the company may change your initial duties in line with business needs. You may be assigned to work outside the area of your normal duties.

You will be working on hydrological and hydraulic modelling, development planning, river and coastal engineering, SUDS, hydrometry, data analysis, and policy appraisal projects. Through your role we anticipate that you will develop your core skills in engineering, GIS, hydrological and hydraulic modelling such that you will increasingly be able to provide advice to junior members of staff.

 Key Responsibilities

 Self and Project Management:

• Monitor allocated project tasks against budget and programme and update your project manager as required.
• Develop your project management capability, including competence in project financial management and ability to organise, plan and attend client meetings.
• Complete Internal Project Reviews.
• Self-check and critically appraise own work, and the work of more junior staff.
• Communicate with the project team and clients through verbal and written media.
• Assist with planning and scheduling of resources to ensure completion of tasks against programme, which will require an awareness of the resource requirements for projects outside your management.
• Contribute to the preparation of quotations and tenders.
• Assist in the management of sub-contract staff.

 Technical:

• Able to evaluate, select and apply standard techniques and procedures.
• Supervision of technical work of more junior staff.
• Analysis and execution of tasks allocated.
• Completion of technical records and calculation sheets to an increasingly high level of quality and accuracy.
• Production of high-quality reports.
• Providing specialist technical knowledge to projects and advising other staff on technical matters as your experience develops.

 Health and Safety:

• Familiarise yourself with risk assessments/method statements which are in place for
• project tasks and work according to the provisions contained within them.
• Follow the required lone working reporting procedures (itemised itinerary, reporting-on procedure, contact details) established for any project you work on.
• Ensure that you are issued with the correct Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as identified through risk assessment.
• Ensure that any accidents or near misses are reported promptly.

 Other Areas:

• Presentations to other staff and at conferences where appropriate.
• Take an active role in identifying appropriat