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Senior Geo-Environmental Consultant

WSP Glasgow, Lanarkshire Hybrid senior full-time

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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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