Geo-Environmental Consultant

AtkinsRéalis; Hartford; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering and consultancy firm is seeking a proactive Geo-Environmental / Contaminated Land Consultant. This role involves managing site investigations, ensuring compliance with health and safety protocols, and utilizing GIS tools. The ideal candidate will have relevant educational qualifications and field experience, working on high-profile projects. The company promotes innovation and values diversity, offering a hybrid working model.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working hours

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in a relevant engineering or science subject (e.g., geology, geography, hydrogeology).
• Relevant post-graduate experience in a consultancy environment.
• Demonstrated understanding of contamination issues and industry standards.
• Experience in soil and rock logging and environmental monitoring.
• Familiarity with CDM Regulations 2015.

Responsibilities

• Organize and supervise environmental site investigations.
• Ensure compliance with Health and Safety policies.
• Develop conceptual site models and risk assessments.
• Support the remediation design and verification.
• Manage data for large projects, especially GIS data.

Skills

Site-based work experience

Organizational skills

Understanding of land contamination

Experience with GIS software

Health and Safety compliance

Education

Degree in engineering or science

Working towards Chartered Membership

Tools

QGIS

ArcGIS

Job description

Overview

Based in either our Cambridge or London office (with flexible hybrid working), you will be part of an award-winning group of contaminated land experts delivering innovative brownfield solutions to major UK infrastructure projects, across the transportation, energy, buildings and places and water markets. This is a fantastic opportunity to work alongside industry leaders, contribute to high-profile UK and international projects, and grow your career in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary environment.

Your purpose:

• Organisation, collation and assessment of desk-based information as part of Phase 1 Contaminated Land Desk Studies.
• Design of Phase 2 site investigations, including organising, supervising and undertaking environmental / geo-environmental site investigation and monitoring scopes. The role will include regular site-based work such as contractor supervision, soil sampling and logging, environmental monitoring/sampling and supporting others on site in these roles too.
• Compliance with Health and Safety Policies and Procedures, including preparation of H&S Plans for site investigation and managing health and safety on site.
• Digital data management, development of conceptual site models, and undertaking qualitative and quantitative risk assessments for human health and the water environment. Preparation and delivery of factual and interpretative reporting.
• Support with remediation design, implementation and verification.
• Developing own competence and maintain CPD necessary to fulfil the responsibilities of the role, with support from the business on own training and development needs.
• Management of own work including supporting senior management to ensure projects are delivered on-time, on budget and to quality and client expectations.

Are you ready to take the next step in your contaminated land career? AtkinsRéalis is seeking a pro-active and enthusiastic Geo-Environmental / Contaminated Land Consultant with relevant experience to join our award-winning Contaminated Land & Hydrogeology team within the Sustainable Land and Resource Management Practice, Degree qualified in a relevant engineering or science subject (e.g. geology, geography, hydrogeology, chemistry, earth sciences, environmental science).

• Working towards Chartered Membership of relevant professional body.
• Relevant post-graduate experience (ideally within a consultancy environment), with a track record in delivering work on-time, on budget and to quality and client expectations.
• Demonstratable understanding of land contamination/brownfield land issues including understanding of relevant codes of practice and industry standards.
• Experience in relevant site-based work including undertaking soil and rock logging, soil/gas/vapour/leachate/groundwater and surface water monitoring/sampling and providing supervision and management of contractors undertaking trial pitting and drilling activities on brownfield sites. Willingness to travel and undertake site-based work across the UK.
• Familiarity with discharging Principal Contractor duties in accordance with CDM Regulations 2015.
• Good organisational skills and an appetite for undertaking outdoor work in all weathers (alongside a variety of desk-based tasks) are essential.
• Experience in delivering site-based work on active gas and electricity infrastructure distribution/transmission sites. Further training can be provided as required.
• Experience managing data on large projects, especially GIS data and AGS data, ideally using software such as QGIS and/or ArcGIS.

Why work for AtkinsRéalis? We are ranked as one of LinkedIn's Top 25 Companies, where UK professionals want to work and stay once they join. We have also been named in the Times Top 50 employers for women. Our Infrastructure team uses innovation, new approaches and the power of data to help our clients deliver end-to-end projects and programmes for essential future infrastructure. As work becomes more complex, our employees challenge the status quo. We are committed to engineering better for people and our planet, from our global Engineering Net-Zero programme to creating social value through EDAROTH community housing. We are proud of our active employee networks that promote awareness and allyship for under-represented groups, and we support communities outside AtkinsRéalis, including schools, charities, ex-forces personnel and professionals returning after career breaks. At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We believe that world-class talent comes from diverse experiences and does not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but thrives on these differences.