We are looking to hire an experienced Environmental Consultant with particular academic research and qualifications relevant to contaminated land or Environmental management more generally. To manage a small team of junior environmental consultants within our head office in Bridgend.

The candidate must have relevant experience and a strong motivational approach to manage the team to a standard our clients expect of our reports.

Key Responsibilities

· Management and advice to junior consultants and sign off for major projects

· Lead, motivate, and manage the Consultancy team to ensure high performance.

· Provide training and support to enhance the Consultancy skills of team members.

· Conduct market research to identify new business opportunities and stay updated on industry trends within the Consultancy sector and liaise with the Sales Manager to Implement.

· Set Consultancy charge out targets and create action plans for achieving them.

· Collaborate with the Compliance Manager to manage the ISO and associated Environmental standards within the Integrated Management System.

· Maintain good technical relationships with clients.

· Support with ground investigation scope and design.

· Provide and lead field work including soil logging and environmental sampling and monitoring.

· Undertaking audits, inspections and data collection exercises.

· Coordinating spill response onsite, from ensuring the work is conducted in a safe manner to the method implemented to conduct the clean-up.

· Keeping up to date with relevant environmental guidance and legislation.

· Drainage Surveys – CCTV, dye tracing and verification surveys on site followed by reporting. This will include client liaison at all stages of the survey.

· Preparation and checking of technical reports including desk studies, ground investigation reports and remediation options appraisals and verification reports.

· Site work including supervision of intrusive ground investigations and sub-contractor management.

· Data review and analysis.

· Ensuring that all work is delivered in line with our procedures and processes and to the highest quality, health and safety, and environmental standards.

Qualifications

· Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline (e.g. geology, engineering, chemistry, environmental science or similar)

· Working towards / be prepared to work towards Chartership with a relevant institution

Experience

· Experience in the preparation of Phase 1 contaminated land desk studies

· Knowledge of the requirements in planning, designing and management of contaminated land and site investigations

· Experience of field logging

· Outline knowledge of Construction Design and Management (CDM) Regulations and their application to ground investigations in collaboration with our Safety Team

· Understanding of the land contamination regime within the UK with regard to current and future use of a site, development planning, environmental permitting and due diligence

· Understanding of the risk-based approach to the assessment of land contamination

· Report writing including presenting complex technical information in a concise and accurate manner

· Management Experience Desirable

Skills / Attributes

· Full UK driving licence

· Be willing to travel and spend periods of time away on site based projects or at other depots across the UK for project support

· Communicate effectively, listen and engage, including communicating technical information

· Ability to innovate and develop in your technical area and to continually seek to improve performance in all aspects of your role

· On site leadership of ground investigation and other similar field works

· Work collaboratively within a team

· Demonstrate logical and independent thinking

Over the past 20+ years Geo Pollution Technologies have evolved to become a service driven organisation providing a vast range of Environmental Management Services.

At Geo Pollution Technologies we believe that we combine strong practical experience with a full understanding of the changing environmental demands placed on our clients. We look to achieve long term support partnerships allowing our skill base to interact at the appropriate level to ensure effective environmental management.

Our staff includes a team of Environmental Consultants and Contaminated Land specialists who are all trained to a minimum of degree level in their specialist fields and are looking to appoint someone to lead and amalgamate the growing team.

GEO POLLUTION TECHNOLOGIES (UK) LIMITED

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