Environmental Technician

First Recruitment Services; Burgess Hill; On-site; GBP 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy seeks a full-time Environmental Technician in Burgess Hill. The role involves site monitoring across the South East, requiring a full clean UK driving license and skills in teamwork and reliability. Opportunities for career progression and training are offered.

Benefits

Excellent pension scheme

Yearly benefits allowance of £750

Company vehicle provided

Qualifications

• Must have a full clean UK driving license.
• CSCS card is a bonus but not essential.
• IT literate and able to read maps.

Responsibilities

• Monitor groundwater and ground gas using provided tools.
• Support consultants on-site with setup and sample sorting.
• Assist in producing Risk Assessments and Method Statements.

Skills

Teamwork

Reliability

Time management

Customer focus

Education

Educational background in Geology/Earth Sciences/Contaminated Land

Science related educational background

Job description

• Position: Environmental Technician
• Salary: £26,350 per year for full time hours. Very good company benefits, including an excellent pension scheme and a yearly allowance of £750 from the company benefits platform. Company vehicle (manual transmission) and laptop provided
• Location: Burgess Hill, West Sussex
• Hours: Monday – Friday, 40 hours per week, no weekend hours
• Role based in South East /London

We are delighted to be working on an exclusive agency arrangement with our successful and professional client as they seek to recruit a full time Environmental Technician to join their team. This role is 90% field based and is a full time (Monday-Friday, 40 hours per week) position. This is an excellent opportunity to join a successful business who have very strong staff retention levels and progression opportunities.

It should be noted that there is anticipated to be a lot of driving involved with this role. We envisage the Technician to be monitoring at two or three sites a day mainly South East / London.

Occasional over-night stays will be required if driving hours reach certain levels (all fuel, meal and accommodation costs are fully expensed). A small sized company van will be provided – manual transmission only.

If you have a CSCS card, that would be a huge bonus but this is not essential. Any relevant educational background in Geology/Earth Sciences/ Contaminated Land would be ideal. Failing that my client will consider people with other science related educational backgrounds and will offer full training. If you have any sort of background in Construction that would be helpful but again this is not essential. You must be IT literate and be able to read maps.

The role – Environmental Technician

My client is a geo-technical and environmental consultancy offering a comprehensive range of services to housing developers, public sector development, commercial construction, road and utilities sectors. These vary from desk studies through to on-site investigations, which are used to provide ground models for contaminated land assessments, foundation, pavement, road and drainage designs. In addition, they undertake slope stability analysis and design, basement impact assessments, contamination remediation strategies and validation reports together with earthworks specifications and material management plans. To date they have undertaken over seven thousand investigations for a wide range of projects including; investigations of former gas works, petrol stations, landfills, chemical works, government sites, airports and railways, as well as schools, hospitals and green field sites.

Duties will include:

My client wish to expand their team with the addition of an Environmental Technician to meet their current and future workload.

Duties will include:

• Primarily travelling around sites, using the company vehicle – undertaking groundwater and ground gas monitoring using a dip meter and a gas monitor – training will be provided.
• Providing manual support to consultants either on-site in the form of setting up sites (fencing, traffic management or the like), trial pitting, soakage tests or with sorting of soil samples.
• Occasionally it may be required to take samples to the laboratory supplier in Hertfordshire.
• Assisting in producing Risk Assessments and Method Statements, along with factual reporting.

Experience, competencies and knowledge required

• Full Clean UK Driving licence
• Must be willing to travel in the UK (mainly south east) with the potential for overnight stays away when required.
• Good team player
• Reliable and able to meet deadlines – much of the work is time sensitive
• The ability to plan workload effectively.
• Understanding the importance of meeting customer needs.

For more information regarding this new and exciting Environmental Technician opportunity, please apply now! Short-listing will take place soon – don’t miss out!

Wild Recruitment Ltd T/A First Recruitment Services is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person’s gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and ability to perform the duties of the job.