Description:

Working with a high level of autonomy, the Principal Hydrologist provides senior hydrology leadership across eWater's products (Source, MUSIC and others), projects and capability development.

The position has five primary roles:

- Lead complex hydrological and water system modelling and technical analysis.
- Provide hydrology leadership for eWater's products, including functionality, maintenance, testing and improvement.
- Translate user and business needs into clear hydrological concepts, requirements and technical specifications.
- Lead or support projects, proposals, training and stakeholder engagement.
- Mentor hydrologists and strengthen eWater's internal technical capability and knowledge.

Skills and Experiences:

About You:

We're looking for a highly experienced Principal Hydrologist with the proven ability to lead and mentor colleagues and industry peers.

The Details:

Qualifications:

- A Degree in hydrology, water resources, civil/environmental engineering, environmental science or a closely related discipline. Postgraduate qualifications and/or equivalent work experience will be highly regarded

Knowledge
- Strong knowledge of hydrology and water resources management
- Robust understanding of hydrological and water system modelling concepts and how they are represented in software
- Deep understanding of Australian water management arrangements, such as water policy, planning, allocation, accounting and river operations




- Minimum 10 years experience applying hydrological or water system models to real world problems

Experience
- 5-year experience leading complex modelling or technical investigations and reviewing the work of others
- 7-year experience preparing high quality technical reports and communicating results to technical and non technical audiences
- Experience with eWater's products or a comparable river system modelling platform. Direct eWater Source experience will be highly regarded
- Advanced hydrological and river system modelling
- Model calibration, optimisation and interpretation of complex results

Personal Skills & Attributes
- Strong conceptual thinking, analytical skills and problem solving
- Ability to define hydrological requirements, test expected behaviour and work effectively with software developers
- Strong technical writing and an ability to clearly communicate complex ideas
- Project leadership
- Ability to supervise technical contributions of team members and undertake peer review
- Effective communicator, able to support stakeholder engagement and client communications
- Eligible to work in Australia
- Ability to travel within Australia and internationally when required

Highly desirable:

- GIS and spatial analysis is highly desirable
- Working knowledge of programming or scripting, such as Python, R or C#, sufficient to analyse data, automate workflows, investigate model behaviour and work effectively with software developers is highly desirable

📌 Principal Hydrologist (Canberra)
🏢 eWaterGroup
📍 Canberra