Senior Environmental Consultant

Role: Senior Environmental Consultant

Location: Remote / Northern Ireland

Duration: Permanent

Job Description

The Senior Environmental Consultant will support the Consultancy Division in providing customers, colleagues, and other stakeholders with commercially aware, technically proficient, and professional environmental risk reduction services. The post holder will utilise their technical knowledge of contaminated land consultancy, to carry out environmental investigation, assessment, reporting, remediation verification and 'cradle to grave' project management of environmental insurance claims. The role will be home based with travel to other offices and sites required, and with close supervision / mentoring by a Principal Consultant and / or the Regional Manager. In addition, and due to the seniority of the post, the postholder will hold responsibility for the technical and financial performance of any project on which they are deployed.

Responsibilities of the role include:

Leading and supervising project management of environmental insurance claims and commercial spill projects
Liaison with all stakeholders including clients, regulators, contractors and homeowners
Undertaking site investigations to determine the extent and severity of impact and assessing environmental risks
Logging of soils during investigations to a high standard and in accordance with best practice
Preparing health, safety and environmental documentation including risk assessments and method statements along with reporting of H&S near misses and positive observations
Management and planning of site investigations, monitoring, remedial and validation works
Scheduling and interpretation of field and laboratory data
Production of interpretive environmental reports including conceptual site models (CSM) and preliminary (PRA) and generic quantitative risk assessments (GQRA)
Undertaking and supporting the design, implementation and verification of environmental remediation works
Demonstrating a commitment to ensuring consistently high levels of safety, technical robustness, commercial awareness, organisation and customer satisfaction
Writing high standard reports which are technically sound and commercially focused.

Qualifications

A degree in a relevant earth sciences, or geo-environmental discipline and, ideally, be a member of a relevant professional organisation
An MSc in a relevant subject (beneficial but not essential)
Experience in managing environmental incidents, carrying out contaminated land surveys and site investigations, with knowledge of available drilling techniques
Possess knowledge of remediation technologies for contaminated soil and groundwater, i.e. have experience of operating on contaminated land projects where there is petroleum hydrocarbon contamination, a working knowledge of CLR11 and BS10175, be proficient in logging soil and rock in accordance with BS5930 and have strong skills in the development and updating of CSMs

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