Value Delivery Consultant (Wastewater Systems)

Value Delivery Consultant (Wastewater Systems)

Are you passionate about driving complex projects to successful completion in the sustainable water, wastewater and energy sectors? BMA is looking for talented individuals to join our team!

The Challenge Addressed

The UK’s critical national infrastructure is facing climate-change-driven challenges. Large investments aim to address these challenges and unlock a sustainable future. In this role you will join a BMA team helping UK water utilities rebalance aging infrastructure with climate resilience, ensuring clean waterways while balancing customer affordability. For example, upgrading aging infrastructure, deploying smart monitoring systems, and accelerating nature-based solutions to advance wastewater resilience.

Company Overview

BMA is a leading UK-based technology company serving the water, wastewater and energy infrastructure sectors. Our Decision Intelligence software platform, Decisio, helps Clients make holistic, rapid, and connected decisions. Founded in 2013, our vision is to develop technology that leverages advances in Advanced Analytics and Data Science with cloud processing power.

Overview of the Vacancy

• Permanent full-time contract, Monday to Friday.
• Position to commence on the mutually agreed date.
• Hybrid role, based at BMA's offices in Leeds, UK.
• Competitive holiday entitlement in addition to UK bank holidays.

Job Description

As a Value Delivery Consultant at BMA, you will play a pivotal role in advancing our Decisio platform and helping clients make better decisions now and in the long term. Your primary focus will be on leveraging planning and Data Science skills to optimise the performance, resilience, and sustainability of water, wastewater, and energy infrastructure systems for our clients. While the initial focus is the wastewater sector, there will be opportunities across our clean water, bioresources, and energy infrastructure clients.

Key responsibilities

• Drive customer and stakeholder satisfaction by understanding client business requirements and translating them into modelling solutions. This role is primarily customer-facing.
• Lead and attend workshop sessions with business stakeholders to determine business requirements for end-use cases to be deployed.
• Inform clients' Strategic Resource Management Plans and Long-Term Delivery Strategies, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements and industry best practices, using the Decisio platform.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support systems planning, offering guidance on efficiency optimisation, energy production enhancement, and resilience planning during critical asset unavailability.
• Learn the core technologies used by BMA and become familiar with Decisio to create detailed digital representations of clients' connected asset systems.
• Gather, transform, and validate data to design and build/validate solution behaviour using available technologies.
• Conduct comprehensive scenario analysis and network design optimisation to enhance system performance, considering operational constraints, environmental factors, and client goals.
• Understand existing mathematical models and develop additional logic to meet internal and client requirements.
• Participate in all aspects of system development, testing, deployment, and feedback to enhance Decisio for the Company and its customers, potentially interacting with colleagues globally.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or higher in Mathematics, Engineering, Water Engineering, Water Sciences, Data Science, Statistical and Decision Sciences, or a STEM-related field.

• Proficiency in advanced analytics and Data Science techniques for decision-making, including statistical analysis, forecasting, predictive modelling, and optimisation algorithms.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Excel and basic knowledge of other tools such as MS SQL Server, Python, R, linear programming, and other optimisation techniques.
• Proven track record of driving innovation, delivering results, and adapting to dynamic environments.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to convey complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Extremely Advantageous

• Experience with wastewater processes, combined sewer overflow systems, and related operational challenges.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements and best practices in wastewater management.
• Ability to conduct comprehensive scenario analyses, optimisation modelling, and investment planning with understanding of technical, economic, and environmental factors.

Personal Characteristics

• A passion for using technology and quantitative analysis to drive real-world benefits.
• Strong critical and creative thinking, with an ambition to drive change.
• Pragmatic, goal-oriented, self-motivated, and self-learning.
• Enjoy a flexible and varied workload including direct client contact.

Join our team at BMA and contribute to shaping the future of sustainable water and energy management. To apply, please submit your resume to

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Project Management and Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting

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