Description
We are seeking a Geo-Environmental Consultant or Assistant Geo-Environmental Consultant to join our growing team in Glasgow.
The successful candidate will support contaminated land assessment and remediation projects, working on site investigations, data collation, and report preparation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct site work, including supervision and management of site investigations
- Perform field work, including soil logging, environmental sampling, and ground gas monitoring
- Collate, review, and interpret data
- Support site investigation design
- Prepare technical reports, including desk studies, site investigation reports, and remediation studies and verification reports
- Ensure all work is delivered to the highest safety, health, and environmental standards
A typical week could include activities such as:
- Phase 1 Desk Study researching and reporting
- Phase 2 Site Investigation design, supervision, soil sampling, soil logging, subcontractor management, human health/water environment risk assessment, and reporting
- Adherence to best technical, engineering, and health & safety practice
- Communicating with clients, subcontractors, and working as part of a project team
Your team:
The team provides land contamination management services to private and public sector clients in various sectors, including property, government agencies, energy, industrial, and nuclear.
What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…
Experience:
- On-site experience of site investigation and other similar field works
- Experience in the preparation of Phase 1 contaminated land/geo-environmental desk studies
- Knowledge of the requirements for planning, designing, and management of site investigations
- Experience of soil logging
- Knowledge of the Construction Design and Management (CDM) Regulations in site investigations
- Knowledge of the land contamination regime within the UK and the risk-based approach to the assessment of land contamination
- Knowledge of the mine gas risk assessment process
- Report writing, including presenting information in a concise and accurate manner
- Data handling, including experience in the use of GIS (desirable)
- At least 2 years' post-graduate experience in undertaking site investigations, groundwater and ground gas monitoring, sample collection activities, and supervision of contractors
Qualifications:
- Relevant degree, e.g., chemistry, biology, geology, engineering, or environmental science
Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Excellent career development potential, including training and mentoring