Employer | Wood Environment & Infrastructure Solutions |
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Job title | Senior Geoenvironmental Consultant |
Location | London, UK |
Salary range | Competitive |
Sector | Geotechnical Engineering |
Reference | 2018-22791 |
Date posted | 07-Nov-19 |
Apply by | 06-Dec-19 |
Contact |
Andrea Holland andrea.holland@woodplc.com https://amecfw-row-external.icims.com/jobs/22791/senior-contaminated-land---geoenvironmental-consultant/job?mode=view Tel: 01912726237 |
Summary | Wood Environment & Infrastructure Solutions have an opportunity for a motivated and client focused individual to join and contribute to our successful and expanding remediation and ground engineering team in the southeast. |
Details |
The successful candidate will join our growing team to ensure we continue to deliver the high calibre of service and technically excellent solutions. We have an opportunity for a contaminated land / geoenvironmental professional supporting our broad range of public and private sector clients on a variety of projects, within the UK and Europe . Key requirements include technical knowledge and robustness, flexibility and the desire to continue improving performance in all aspects of your role. The role will be based from our multi-disciplinary office in London where you will be working alongside our Built Environment teams. Key Responsibilities • Leading technical elements of projects and proposals to agreed budgets in relation to time, cost and quality. • Management of medium/large scale geoenvironmental projects or tasks including desk studies, ground investigations, risk assessments and remediation designs. • Supervision of technical delivery, ensuring a high quality output. • Leading interpretation and assessment of data to support site appraisals, including checking work undertaken by others. • Leading site teams across a range of projects. • Development of HSSE plans and RAMS. • Identifying and securing new work opportunities. • Management of site works, including specifying and managing ground investigation contracts • Development of remediation options appraisals and strategies, management of remediation contractors is desirable • Ensuring that all work is delivered in line with procedures and processes and to the highest safety, health and environmental standards • Mentoring and developing team members Skills / Qualifications • Relevant technical degree e.g. chemistry, engineering, geology or environmental science. • A higher degree in contaminated land, hydrogeology, geotechnical engineering, or similar, is desirable. • A health and safety based qualification relevant to the safe management of ground investigation and/or remediation works would be desirable. This may include relevant CSCS, CITB or IOSH based schemes (e.g. Site Supervision Safety Training Scheme, Site Management Safety Training Scheme and/or safe supervision of geoenvironmental projects). • Candidates must hold membership of a relevant industry organisation and as a minimum be working towards chartered status Experience • Experience of delivering assessment of land contamination within the UK regulatory framework with regard to current and future use of a site • Experience in the planning, designing and supervision/leading of ground investigations, including a sound knowledge and proven application of relevant health and safety legislation (e.g. CDM 2015) and management via the creation and implementation of safe systems of work • Experience in interpretation of data to develop conceptual models and assess the risks posed by soil, ground gas and groundwater quality. • Experience with the design and site work associated with remediation of land contamination • Experience of presenting technical information in a concise and accurate manner • Experience of mentoring team members to develop their abilities • Experience and sound working knowledge of industry standard contracts for both ground investigation (Infrastructure Conditions of Contract Ground Investigation Version) and remediation (NEC Engineering and Construction Contract and/or ICE Conditions of Contract) • Experience and sound working knowledge of industry standard and tailored bespoke specifications for both ground investigation (e.g. UK Specification for Ground Investigation, 2nd edition) and/or remediation. Also cost management of such via use of associated bills of quantity • Experience of geotechnical data management and interpretation tools such as Holebase and/or Gint. Also a basic knowledge of the use of GIS based systems Skills/Attributes • Excellence and leadership in health and safety aspects of projects • Communicate effectively, listen and engage, including communicating technical information effectively verbally and in writing both internally and externally • Ability to innovate and develop in your technical area and to continually seek to improve performance in all aspects of role • Work in collaborative project teams to achieve results by effective communication, sharing of information etc • Flexibility to work across the UK for specific projects or longer-term assignments would be advantageous • A full UK driving licence is required |
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