Senior Geo-Environmental Consultant

Primary Location: UK - Glasgow - 177 Bothwell Street

Company Description

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Job Description

Start here. Grow here. Are you ready to shape the future of Investigations and Remediation? Want to further your career within one of the UK’s top soil, groundwater and remediation consultancies? If so, this is the job for you. We’re seeking an experienced Senior Geo-Environmental Consultant to be based in our Glasgow or Edinburgh office. This is a fantastic opportunity to further your career within an established and successful company that has welfare and wellbeing as core values.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Deliver Projects: Take day-to-day responsibility for delivering ground investigation and remediation projects, ensuring technical quality, budget adherence, and program timelines.
• Work Independently: Operate with a high degree of independence to maintain technical excellence and project management.
• Prepare Proposals: Develop fee proposals for both external and internal clients, ensuring clear and competitive project outlines.
• Lead Project Phases: Guide projects from desk study and feasibility through to ground investigation, interpretation, and final design.
• Apply Technical Skills: Utilize your technical and commercial skills, knowledge, and experience to manage all aspects of project delivery.
• Collaborate: Work effectively as an ambitious team player, contributing to the success of the team and the projects.

Our award-winning team serves a wide range of end markets and clients. Our experts provide one-stop access to services ranging from desk studies, site investigation, risk assessment, remediation (strategy development, design, implementation and validation), monitoring and close-out on a wide range of contracts. We work for leading UK and international clients on commissions of varying scale across all sectors, such as industrial, water, local government, strategic land holders, defence, ports, road and rail.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Here’s what we’re looking for:

• In-depth knowledge of contaminated land legislation, regulations and guidance across the UK and Ireland, with particular expertise in Scotland.
• Practical field investigation experience, including site management, drilling supervision, geo-environmental sample scheduling and analysis, groundwater and ground gas sampling, and remediation supervision.
• Experience designing, supervising and managing geo-environmental site investigations.
• Expertise in developing robust conceptual site models.
• Proficiency in qualitative and/or quantitative risk assessment relating to soil, water, ground gas and mine gas.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear, concise technical documents, including desk studies and interpretative reports.
• Chartered status, or progress towards chartership, with a relevant professional institution.
• A sound understanding of the Construction (Design and Management) (CDM) Regulations and their application to site management.
• A full, clean driving licence and willingness to travel across the UK.

Additional Information

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