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Rory Clark, Senior Engineer
"Since joining RPS I have been fortunate to have been part of a wide range of diverse and interesting projects, this has allowed me to focus on different aspects of work and really develop within my career. The friendly culture coupled with the approachability of colleagues within the workplace creates an engaging environment that encourages collaboration."
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Lauren Fraser, Senior Planner
"RPS’s friendly and team focused style of working ensures you will always feel welcome and supported. I have always been encouraged and supported to enhance my professional development at RPS and have worked hard to grow from a junior role to now leading the Programme Team, where we provide a high level of support to each project’s life cycle and data solutions by creating innovation tools to help assist all teams in planning, resourcing, and reporting."
Careers in Water Consultancy
Our highly skilled and motivated team work on projects across the UK for multiple water and sewerage companies. We deliver a full range of end-to-end water and wastewater services including data collection and analytics; modelling, risk analysis and optimisation, data visualisation and mapping, artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions, feasibility studies, outline and detailed design of capital solutions and development of optimised, risk based, operational interventions.
Careers with purpose
It’s an exciting time to be working for our UK Water Consultancy team as the workload in the water industry really takes off. With a broad portfolio of long-term framework agreements in place, we are ideally placed to help our clients deliver on the challenges facing them over the coming years - whether that is reducing leakage, pollution and flooding, or improving the environment and levels of service to their customers.
We are looking for motivated problem-solvers who are in the search of their next challenge and who have an interest in water, our most valuable resource. You will have the opportunity to work on exciting projects, solving problems that matter for our clients and some of the largest water companies in the UK.
Career opportunities in some of our largest water projects
£100 Million United Utilities Project:
RPS, alongside our colleagues from the wider Tetra Tech family, have secured a £100 million single-award framework to support the improvement of river health across the North West of England. Under this 10-year framework, our engineers and scientists will drive program optimisation, develop solutions and select the preferred options based on best value, lowest carbon and cost.
£65 Million Scottish Water Project:
Having secured a major 8 year framework with Scottish Water to understand the condition and performance of their assets, we are looking for intelligent risk takers who relish the opportunity to push the boundaries of what's possible on projects, bringing our clients' aspirations to life.
Discover early career opportunities
Our Early Career Professional Development Programme has been designed to empower employees starting out in their career in the water industry. We want to ensure you have the best start as possible, let us help you kick start your career.
Our apprenticeship programme has been designed to help kickstart your career into water the water industry and it doesn’t require you to have any prior experience. Whether it’s in Asset, Surveying & Inspections (AS&I) or Water Consultancy, we have a place that is right for you. Our people are what make us great, come and join our team and truly make a difference in the future of water!
You will also have the opportunity to meet and collaborate with colleagues across the RPS network to share learnings and provide a peer-support network.
Hear from some of our people
Values that define our culture
We are passionate about sustainability, understanding that responsible practices today shape a better tomorrow. Together, we are not just envisioning change, we are driving it.
RPS Virtual City
This 3-dimensional interactive rendering of a city allows us to display the complete suite of services that we offer to our clients across the entire Water industry.
The Virtual City showcases seven key areas; Harbour, Urban, Industrial, Flooding, Pollution, Drainage and Coastal areas. Each of these locations represents a specific set of key services and expertise we have honed over decades in these spaces. A focus in each of these locations, would allow users to access content that will help them visualise how we help our clients with the deep expertise we have here at RPS, solving problems that matter.
Each area also provides further contextual links to examples of projects and case studies, to tell a story of similar work we have done in the past for some of the biggest clients across the UK, Europe and globally.
Aspirations become careers
Nick Gelsthorpe - Senior Modeller
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