Environmental Field Team Leader

To support our ambitious growth plans, we have a great opportunity to join our Environment and Safety Division. SOCOTEC provides a comprehensive range of environmental monitoring and consultancy services to help companies fulfil their legal obligations and comply with environmental regulations. Our expert field teams provide national coverage and tailored services including site investigation, sampling and analysis, monitoring, interpretation and consultancy.

We’re looking for an Environmental Field Team Leader to lead an enthusiastic team of Technicians and Technologists, in both Environmental and Water Hygiene, to a wide range of clients across Scotland. This is an experienced level position and as such, relevant experience is required.

Your challenge will include:

• Manage the day to day operations of the Environmental Field Team, ensuring high levels of customer service and efficient and effective management.
• Carry out tasks and prioritise workload to ensure that the customers’ requirements are met, in a timely and cost effective manner.
• Overview the scheduling and performance of Environmental Field Team activity to ensure work is completed efficiently and reports delivered within key performance indicators.
• Where necessary act as a key client / framework customer contact to ensure the smooth running of a SOCOTEC group contract.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Relevant degree or equivalent qualification.
• Experience in the Environmental Sector.
• Working knowledge of the rail infrastructure.
• Ability to work well under pressure with a focus on deadlines.
• High customer service ethic.

About Environmental: Our Environmental team is made up of many different specialists all operating within different areas of expertise. The main areas we cover are Environmental Monitoring and Consultancy, and Occupational Hygiene, together with specialist laboratories to support our services. Our services range from on-site monitoring and sample collection, ranging from local businesses to large Government contracts, to consultancy works on large contaminated land projects, complemented with onsite works for dust, noise, and local exhaust emissions. We pride ourselves in our ability to consult, monitor and test for our clients, supporting all their needs in one place, using our highly trained employees.

What’s in it for you? As well as a competitive salary, we can offer you a wide range of benefits including 25 days holiday with the opportunity to buy more, an electric car scheme (where applicable), employee recognition schemes, family friendly support, employee benefits and discounts app, employee assistance programmes, and enhanced company pension. SOCOTEC UK are proud to be Disability Confident accredited.

Why SOCOTEC? Here at SOCOTEC UK, we have over 2,000 colleagues across our divisions delivering world-class services to our customers. We provide an unrivalled range of testing, inspection, and certification services throughout the UK, and we deliver excellence to our customers by recruiting and retaining the very best industry talent. We offer transversal career pathways as well as linear pathways, and we will support you in attaining a portfolio career in one place. Not to mention the possibility of working locally, nationally, or globally, in the office or remotely. We are committed to your personal and professional development, and you will be supported in every step of your journey with us.

Building a safer and more sustainable world is the core mission we set out to achieve at SOCOTEC, it is at the heart of everything that we do. We are committed to acting as a key player in society, investing in innovative solutions to ensure social and environmental concerns are at the forefront of all of our business operations.