Geo-Environmental Consultant / Senior Consultant

London

Description

Our clients Geo team undertakes a diverse range of projects across various sectors, to deliver geo-environmental consultancy services backed up by in-house ground investigation services.

The successful candidate will become a member of this busy team delivering focused solutions for a growing key client base, with emphasis on technical excellence, client care and effective project management.  You will be working alongside other land contamination, environmental due diligence, ground investigation, groundwater and geo-technical specialists to deliver holistic solutions to clients’ needs in these areas.  Additionally, the successful candidate will be collaborating with geo-environmental teams in other offices and with other specialists in the planning, environment and engineering teams.

Key attributes required for the position are sound technical knowledge, enthusiasm, self-motivation and excellent verbal and written communication skills. We anticipate the role will require approximately 50% of your time will be site based (typically around London and the SE but occasionally further afield nationally and internationally) and 50% will be office based, but this may vary as workload dictates.

Qualifications

You will hold a degree in geology, engineering geology, hydrogeology or relevant environmental science discipline. Whilst not essential, it would be beneficial for you to have a post graduate qualification such as a Master’s degree. You should also be working towards Chartership with a relevant body, such as CIWEM IEMA or Geo Soc. You will have post graduate industry experience.

An understanding of current contaminated land technical guidance, Part 2A legislation and the development planning regime.

• You must have experience of, and be confident in, managing and supervising ground investigation on site, including groundwater and ground gas monitoring and have the skills and knowledge to interpret data. Any specific site works accreditations/qualifications held will be an advantage (e.g. SMSTS, SSSTS, CSCS etc).
• You will be knowledgeable in current practice and governing standards/guidance for the investigation and remediation of contaminated land and must be able to produce Phase 1 geo-environmental desk top study reports incorporating preliminary risk assessment and Phase 2 interpretative reports including qualitative and quantitative risk assessments.
• You must have excellent written and verbal communication skill and be fully IT literate as you will be required to write clear, concise and technically robust reports.
• You must have a good understanding of health, safety and environmental management.
• A full, preferably clean, driving license.
• You will be a team player with strong social, interpersonal and communication skills.

The client is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, or parental leave.

The client are also happy to discuss flexible working for this role, including the possibility of reduced hours, flexible start and finish times, or compressed hours. They hope to offer a range of solutions to help you get the most out of your work / life balance.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.