SLR Consulting
Hydrologist - Water Resources, Mining
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SLR is a global leader in sustainability solutions, working with clients to help make sustainability happen, within a collaborative, people-first culture. Due to continued growth, we are seeking an experienced Mine Water Professional to join our established Mine Water team, delivering high-profile integrated water management and mining sector projects. Based in Edinburgh, Bristol, Nottingham, London or Dublin, the role will focus primarily on mine water management, hydrology, and water resource engineering for local and international mining projects, with additional exposure to feasibility studies, due diligence, ESIA, and closure planning, as well as a small amount of other multi-disciplinary work spanning renewables, infrastructure, power, industrial, and built-environment sectors.
The Role
You’ll lead the delivery of mine water and hydrology projects from planning through to detailed design, working closely with clients and multidisciplinary teams. The role includes:
- Project and technical leadership – delivering integrated water management solutions across the mining lifecycle, including feasibility studies (PEA/PFS/FS), operational improvements, due diligence, ESIA, and closure planning
- Client management and proposal support – enquiry handling, client liaison, technical workshops, reporting, QA/QC, and site visits
- Mentoring and coaching less experienced engineers and scientists – supporting team capability, resource planning, and strategic development
- Desk-based work alongside site visits across the UK, Ireland, Europe, and internationally – collaborating with colleagues across Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Americas
You’ll collaborate with colleagues across Environmental and Earth Sciences, Planning, ESIA, Engineering, and Global Advisory on complex and impactful mining projects, with opportunities for European and international exposure.
Rewards & Benefits
SLR’s ‘One Team’ culture is at the heart of our business, providing a collaborative and supportive environment for professional development. Through a structured career framework, regular performance reviews, and full support toward chartership, professional qualifications, and licenses, we offer outstanding opportunities for long-term career progression.
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Our flexible benefits & reward package includes:
- Competitive salary with discretionary bonus
- Company pension
- Private medical insurance
- Life, income, and travel insurance
- Salary sacrifice car lease and cycle-to-work schemes
We believe sustainable careers need balance, so we offer:
- Flexible, hybrid, and agile working
- 25 days’ annual leave plus flexible public holidays
- Buy or sell leave options
- Core working hours
- Cross-border remote working and sabbatical opportunities
Family life and wellbeing matter at SLR: We provide enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave, access to an Employee Assistance Programme, and specialist support for mental health, stress, and menopause—supporting our people both professionally and personally.
About You
You’ll bring:
- Extensive experience delivering mine water, hydrology, or water resource projects, ideally within the mining sector
- A degree in hydrology, water resources engineering, environmental engineering, geology, or a related field, with professional registration (CEng, CEnv, or CSci)
- Project management and stakeholder engagement experience, including client liaison and technical workshop delivery
- Knowledge of relevant water management design codes, guidance, and best-practice standards for mining and minerals
- Experience with water modelling tools and analytical systems, such as rainfall-runoff models, water balance modelling, hydraulic modelling, and (desirable) GoldSim
- Strong technical reporting, numerical analysis, and problem-solving skills, with experience producing drawings, graphics, and presentations
- A driving license that permits you to legally drive in the UK for site visits
Your knowledge will include:
- Climate characterisation and design rainfall estimation
- Stormwater management and hydraulic design
- Flood hydrology and rainfall-runoff modelling
- Water balance modelling and water resource management
- Planning and design of water management infrastructure
- Dam break assessment for water and tailings storage facilities
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Desirable additional experience:
- Field hydrology programme design and execution
- Water quality monitoring and modelling
- GoldSim probabilistic scenario modelling
- Newtonian and non-Newtonian hydraulic modelling
- Data management, data science, GIS, and/or CAD
- Cost estimation and design specifications
- Water treatment plant and pumping system design
Culture & Inclusion
Inclusion is fundamental to who we are. We are committed to equal opportunities and foster a workplace where everyone can thrive, supported by active Culture & Inclusion Committees and Employee Networks. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and are a Disability Confident Committed employer.
If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know, and we will be happy to support you.
If this Mine Water Professional role aligns with your experience and ambitions, we encourage you to apply.
We’re Making Sustainability Happen. We don’t have all the answers to the complex sustainability challenges faced by humanity today. But we’re working on it. We are a consultancy with 4,500+ employees, working on projects in over 125 countries around the world.
When you join SLR, you’ll work alongside some of the world’s leading advisors and technicians on projects of global importance in the environmental space.
We know sustainability starts from within. And no matter how good we are today, we can always do better. We continually work on our internal ethics to set the standard for organizations and reflect the advice we give to clients.
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