Senior Geo-Environmental Consultant

Description

• Liaise and negotiate with regulators
• Implement and maintain health and safety standards across the business
• Manage workload and prioritise tasks to achieve objectives and meet deadlines
• Produce project fee proposals and tenders
• Check and approve the work of junior staff including health and safety documentation, drawings, logs, calculations, factual and interpretive reports
• Help produce guides, template masters, identify and develop tools to improve quality and efficiency
• Undertake remediation verification and reporting
• Comply with and assist with updating/producing internal policies and procedures within ISO standards
• Conduct ground investigations involving various techniques, taking on the role of Project Manager for various schemes and delegating work to junior staff
• Write interpretive reports including Phase I/II geo-environmental assessments, qualitative and generic quantitative risk assessments, ground gas assessments, and geotechnical assessments
• Manage earthworks and materials/waste management including knowledge of MMPs under the CL:AIRE DoWCoP
• Attend meetings, site visits and site work as required
• Prepare outline and detailed remediation strategies with knowledge of a range of remediation techniques

Requirements

• Excellent IT skills and highly competent with MS Office
• A strong and exemplary work ethic, able to work effectively alone or as part of a team
• Chartered Status
• Apply detailed knowledge of soil mechanics, determining characteristic values and calculation of foundation bearing capacities (shallow and deep foundations) and settlements
• Develop client relationships and be an excellent written and verbal communicator
• Undergraduate degree (2:1 or above) in relevant subject (geology, environmental science, geotechnical engineering, civil engineering, physical geography etc.)
• Full UK driving licence (manual transmission)
• Excellent problem solving/contingency planning skills with ability to adapt, finding quick, innovative and practical solutions
• Pass knowledge on and mentor junior staff
• Postgraduate degree or Masters in relevant subject
• Write bespoke and complex technical assessments
• Understand commercial aspects of business and take responsibility for project finances, with potential responsibility for invoicing projects
• Be highly familiar with relevant standards, guidance and legislative background to the geo-environmental and geotechnical industry, helping to spread knowledge to junior staff
• Experience with software packages such as AutoCAD, Holebase, Surfer, Geo5 etc.
• Approximately 5+ years relevant experience

Benefits

• Potential for occasional home working
• Twice yearly salary reviews as you become more experienced
• Laptop/PC, mobile phone, company vehicles, and branded workwear provided
• Company profit share scheme and enhanced 4% employer pension contribution
• Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity/paternity leave, adoption and shared parental leave
• Optional every second Friday off work (2FF scheme) - giving an extra circa 26 days off per year on top of paid annual leave
• Overnight stay allowance (£30 per night) plus expenses
• £2,000 bonus on attaining chartership (one body only)
• Generous training fund and CPD support with professional fees covered (for two bodies)
• Cycle to work scheme and recruitment recommendation bonus
• Employee Assistance Programme for wellbeing and mental health
• 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays (3 days reserved over Christmas shutdown, increasing with service and promotions)

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance