Diverse regions.
Diverse geography.
Diverse challenges.
North East
The North East region covers around 23,000 square km, from northeast Derbyshire in the south to its northern border with Scotland. Around seven million people live in the region, most in the urban areas of Yorkshire and in the towns on the north east coast. The landscape is varied and beautiful, from the Derbyshire Peak District National Park, to the seaside resorts of Scarborough and Whitby and the industrial heritage of Tyneside. The risk of fluvial flooding comes from Pennine and moorland source rivers whilst the North Sea provides a tidal flood threat along the entire coast of the region.
The region has a varied set of flood risk management issues and has seen a number of severe flood events in recent times. In January 2005 a total of 130 properties were flooded at Corbridge on the River South Tyne, when heavy rainfall caused river levels to rise to 4.7 metres above normal. Major flood alleviation schemes are planned for the towns of Morpeth and Ripon, whilst large-scale studies are required to assess the level of flood risk to the cities of Leeds, Sheffield and to areas around the Humber Estuary. The region has challenging targets to increase the coverage of the flood warning service to all our customers. Throughout the region there is an expanding programme of investment in flood risk management.
There is a growing need to recruit and develop competent staff with skills to carry out policies, initiatives and promote schemes, which enable us to help the public with the challenge from the increasing threat of flood risk.
This is an exciting time to join Flood Risk Management in the North East we are looking for Flood Incident Management Technical Specialist to be part of a team to develop and deliver flood warning services for many fast responding river catchments across the region. The warnings will need to be timely and accurate and available with an increasing coverage.
As Technical Specialists you will provide a key role ensuing an increase in the take-up of warning and subsequent response, including boosting the effectiveness of self-help amongst the members of the public. The launch of the Flood Warnings Direct project across the Agency will provide many challenges for the team as the options for issuing flood warning dissemination increase.