Principal Environmental Consultant

AtkinsRéalis; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A premier engineering consultancy is seeking a Principal Geo-Environmental Consultant in Glasgow with a strong background in contaminated land and brownfield development. The role involves managing diverse projects, maintaining client relationships, and providing technical guidance to junior staff. Candidates should have over 10 years of relevant experience, ideally within a consultancy environment, and possess a higher education qualification in a relevant field. Competitive remuneration and opportunities for career development are offered.

Benefits

Hybrid work culture

Flexible holiday allowances

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years relevant post-graduate experience, preferably in consultancy.
• Strong track record in winning and delivering high-profile work.
• Good working knowledge of legislation and industry standards for contaminated land.

Responsibilities

• Manage a variety of contaminated land projects, including finance and programme delivery.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to junior staff.
• Liaison with clients and stakeholders on project specifics.

Skills

Technical leadership

Project management

Relationship management

Commercial awareness

Education

Higher education qualification in relevant engineering or science subject

Chartered Membership of relevant professional body

Tools

GIS software (QGIS, ArcGIS)

Job description

Job Description

Overview

We have a great opportunity for a dynamic and motivated Principal Geo-Environmental / Environmental Consultant specialising in contaminated land and brownfield development to join our Sustainable Land and Resource Management Practice in our Glasgow or Edinburgh offices.

AtkinsRéalis is one of the world's leading engineering and design consultancies; we have the breadth and depth of expertise to respond to the most technically challenging and time critical infrastructure projects. The Sustainable Land and Resource Management Practice is a well-established, award winning, multi-disciplinary, environmental and engineering practice with an extensive portfolio of regeneration and development projects and a highly skilled team; notably with staff winning various Brownfield Briefing awards over the past years.

The successful candidate will be an important part of an innovative and technically excellent team helping deliver projects to a number of the largest UK-based and international infrastructure projects including nuclear new-build. AtkinsRéalis contaminated land specialists use the full range of their skills, working on land contamination, hydrogeology and brownfield redevelopment projects as well as providing innovative solutions to engineering challenges. The work involves local and national projects and frameworks being delivered by AtkinsRéalis across a range of exciting markets, including the development of Cities, Transportation (major road and rail sectors) Water and Energy Infrastructure. We work on projects across the UK, Ireland and around the world. We pride ourselves in offering a truly multi-disciplinary working environment and bring exciting opportunities to influence a project from beginning to end.

This post will offer a challenging and rewarding opportunity to apply knowledge, experience and problem-solving skills whilst providing good opportunities for career development. As a member of our friendly and supportive team you will manage a range of projects, working with our experienced staff, to deliver excellence to our clients. You will work closely with a wide range of other professionals to deliver holistic solutions to environmental and engineering problems and to identify new opportunities.

Your Role

• Project management and technical delivery of a wide variety of contaminated land focused projects, including the management of finances, programme delivery and technically reviewing others' work.
• Providing technical guidance, constructive support and mentoring to junior staff and supporting their technical development.
• Liaison with clients, stakeholders, regulators, sub-contractors and other internal disciplines.
• Supporting senior management in developing new business and the preparation of commercial offers to maintain and expand the current client base.
• Working with the local and wider Sustainable Land and Resource Management team across the UK.

About You

• Higher education qualification in a relevant engineering or science subject (e.g. geology, geography, hydrogeology, chemistry, earth sciences, environmental science).
• Chartered Membership of relevant professional body (if not Chartered, we would expect the candidate, with our support, to become chartered within 6 to 12 months after joining).
• A minimum of 10 years relevant post-graduate experience (ideally within a consultancy environment) with a strong technical, people and project management skillset and a track record in winning and delivering high-profile work
• Technical leadership and delivery of Phase 1 Desk Studies, Phase 2 Site Investigations, remediation design and verification / validation for a range of projects and clients.
• Commercial awareness and understanding including being able to complete tenders.
• Good working knowledge and demonstrable understanding of the relevant legislation, technical guidance, industry standards and best practice for contaminated land, materials management and waste.
• Customer focused with good relationship management skills.

Desirable Criteria (but not essential)

• Registered SiLC and SQP.
• Experience and knowledge of managing NEC3/4 and/or ICE contracts.
• Experience and knowledge of electricity substation and high voltage-related land contamination sites.
• Experience and knowledge of MMPs and the DoW Code of Practice, ideally with Qualified Person (QP) status.
• Experience and knowledge of EIAs, due diligence and permitting.
• Experience in qualitative and quantitative controlled waters and human health risk assessment (ideally with experience in common analytical modelling packages such as P20, ConSim, CLEA).
• Experience in working with geospatial data (GIS) using software such as QGIS and/or ArcGIS.
• Ideally you will have experience managing data on large projects, especially GIS data and AGS data.

Reward & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive - at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

Additional information

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.

Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.

Principal Environmental Consultant • Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom