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Managing Consultant - Water Circularity & Wastewater

Manchester, United KingdomFull-time2026-10-09 → 2026-11-11

Core

Lead technically rigorous water circularity assignments for industrial and infrastructure clients to reduce freshwater dependence, manage wastewater risk, and evaluate reuse/recycling options.

Role type

Senior IC Managing Consultant (Water Circularity & Wastewater)

Builds

Practical options, transparent calculations, and defensible operational/investment decisions for industrial water and wastewater management.

Domain

Industrial water management, wastewater treatment, and circular water systems.

Required skills

Industrial water and wastewater management, site water audits, water balances, water reuse and recycling optioneering, wastewater characterisation, treatment-technology screening, true-cost-of-water analysis, scenario analysis, technical writing, structured problem-solving, data analysis, project leadership.

Preferred skills

QUEST or comparable industrial resource-efficiency audit methodology, trade-effluent permitting, ecotoxicology, micropollutants, true-cost-of-water modeling, field audits, French or other European language.

Technologies

Water balance models, option matrices, technical memoranda, scenario models.

Responsibilities

Lead technical workstreams from scoping to close-out, interrogate client data and design evidence-gathering plans, prepare technical reports and decision products, provide senior technical direction to teams, coordinate specialist inputs, act as trusted technical adviser to stakeholders, maintain project commercial control and governance.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities.