# Senior Geo-Environmental Consultant

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Glasgow, Lanarkshire
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Geo-Environmental Consultant to join our growing world-class team. As a Senior Geo-Environmental Consultant, you will play a key role in the day-to-day delivery of projects, working closely with and being supported by team members, project managers, and project directors.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

- Site work including supervision and management of site investigations

- Field work including soil logging, environmental sampling, and ground gas monitoring

- Data collation, review, and interpretation

- Mentoring of junior members of the team

- Project management

- Support with bid preparation

- Support with site investigation design

- Preparation of technical reports including desk studies, site investigation reports, and remediation studies and verification reports

- Ensuring that all work is delivered in line with procedures and to the highest safety, health, and environmental standards

The role will require time both in the office and on-site. 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

The team provides land contamination management services to private and public sector clients in the property, government agency, energy, industrial, and nuclear sectors.

**Requirements:**

- 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 is desirable

- At least 4 years' post-graduate experience in undertaking site investigations, groundwater and ground gas monitoring, sample collection activities, and supervision of contractors is required

- Relevant degree e.g., chemistry, biology, geology, engineering, geography, or environmental science

**What we offer:**

- Competitive salary

- Excellent career development potential including training and mentoring

- Benefits package

## Skills

### Required
- site investigation
- soil logging
- environmental sampling
- ground gas monitoring
- data collation
- report writing
- GIS
- Construction Design and Management (CDM) Regulations
- land contamination regime
- mine gas risk assessment

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