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Applying for "Junior Flood Safety Consultant Researcher" Junior Flood Safety Consultant Researcher Do you want to help ensure that we in the Netherlands stays flood safe and advise water authorities about the best ways to achieve this? As a junior flood safety, your work will involve exploring interesting and complex flood safety issues relating to levees and flood defences. Are you a recent graduate with an MSc in Civil Engineering, Earth Sciences or a similar and are you familiar with the Dutch soil conditions and flood safety issuese? Are you looking for a job where you can develop your skills as a consultant or researcher in this field? Read on to find out how you can contribute to a safe future for the Netherlands. Here's what you can expect as a junior flood safety consultant and researcher In the Netherlands, we cannot live without levees and flood defences. As a junior employee, you will help advise clients on the construction and management of these essential components of our water infrastructure. You will investigate how we can make them safe and keep them that way. You will identify and analyse developments that affect the soil conditions and flood defences. You will assess the effects of climate change, investigate land subsidence, monitor flood situations and contribute to solutions for flood defence issues. In addition, you will be involved in the design, assessment and review of levees. The new knowledge is validated in our experimental facilities, amongst other places, and incorporated into guidelines and D-series software instruments. These are used by you and the sector. Sharing this knowledge fosters strong links with our partners and clients, both nationally and internationally. Your main responsibilities will be: - Consultancy in the field of geotechnical engineering and risk assessment in studies for flood defences and levees. - Carrying out and reviewing assessments and dyke reinforcement projects. - Devel...



