Consultant - Scientific Advisor and Trainer in Manchester

Consultant – Scientific Advisor and Trainer

Location: Manchester

Salary: £29‑£35k (DOE) + £4,250 car or car allowance + benefits including private healthcare and buy/sell holidays.

We are continuing to grow our Fire Science and Chemical Management consultancy group and are looking to recruit an ambitious individual to join our industry leading team.

Responsibilities

• Development and delivery of technical training to emergency service and industrial clients in topics relating to hazardous materials, incident management, use of monitoring and testing equipment as well as good practice guidance and legislation.
• Carrying out assessment of delegates where required and providing learner feedback.
• Ensuring quality assurance of training services and taking part in standardisation procedures.
• Maintaining our current accreditation for training courses and looking to broaden the accredited training services portfolio.
• Working as part of a team providing scientific support to emergency services as part of an out of hours response rota (1 week in 4).
• Undertaking consultancy services and activities relating to the supply, use and disposal of hazardous materials including incident management.
• Maintaining, calibrating and deploying a wide range of analytical equipment (infra‑red, gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and Raman techniques) to detect, identify or monitor a range of hazardous materials.
• Providing detailed reports following consultancy projects on results, findings and conclusions.
• Keeping abreast of current legislation, relevant national and international standards and guidelines and technical developments within the relevant field and providing guidance to clients.
• Providing high quality technical consultancy to clients and team members within the Consulting Group.
• Supporting other areas of consultancy such as air quality, fire risk assessment and certification services in delivery of projects.
• Participation in a 24/7/365 on‑call rota (one week in every four) with additional standby payments.

Candidate Requirements

Qualifications Required: We are looking for an experienced trainer or teacher (minimum Level 3 AET) with a background/qualifications in Chemistry. A confident speaker who can draw knowledge from an array of disciplines to answer complex technical queries.

• Qualifications in Chemistry at degree level, or experience working in the Chemical industry in a laboratory setting.
• Good organisational skills and adaptability to a changeable working environment.
• Willingness to travel and ability to adapt to work in various locations; flexibility in contributing to the on‑call rota for technical support services.
• Full driving licence.

Desirable:

• Formal teaching qualification as a minimum Level 3 AET formally PETALS and CAVA in assessment or comparable experience in a teaching or a training environment.
• Experience in the use of monitoring equipment.
• Member of a related professional institution.

What’s in it for you?

• Excellent career development and progression opportunities: A Consultant position within our team is the great next step in your career, thanks to our unique client links, existing portfolio of high‑profile projects, industry links and established team of experts. We aim to cultivate a supportive learning environment so team members can enjoy development and progression alongside an interesting, technically challenging career.
• We offer both core and flexible benefits, a competitive salary and industry leading training and development to support you throughout your career: The opportunity to assist on a variety of large, challenging, and exciting projects for high‑profile clients, including some of the world’s most recognised brands. Bureau Veritas has a range of consultancy departments including Air Quality, Sustainability, Occupational Hygiene and Health & Safety. This role offers the opportunity to cross‑skill and gain experience collaborating alongside these experts.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays with the option to buy or sell 5 holidays, plus the option to carry over 5 days.
• Combined employee/employer pension contributions up to 12%.
• Flexible/Home Working options.
• Flexible benefits scheme, to suit what is important to you including life cover, private health care, dental care, gym flex, Tec scheme, enhanced maternity/paternity policy, give as you earn scheme & travel insurance.
• Health and wellbeing support through mental health first aiders, employee assistance programme & smart health services.
• Working for an industry‑leading global company certified as a UK Top Employer for the last nine years in a row.