Senior / Principal Geo-Environmental Consultant

AtkinsRéalis; Park Central; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis seeks a Senior/Principal Geo-Environmental Consultant to lead and deliver environmental compliance, EIA and contaminated land projects for major UK infrastructure. You will coordinate cross-disciplinary teams, mentor junior staff and engage with regulators and clients from offices across the UK in a flexible hybrid setup.

Qualifications

• Higher education qualification in a relevant engineering or science subject with a good understanding of EIA and consenting.
• Chartered Membership of relevant professional body; would expect to become chartered within 6–12 months after joining with support.

Responsibilities

• Assisting on coordination and delivery of environmental work by multi-disciplinary teams (EIA, options appraisals, environmental management and consenting) with a focus on soils and geology.
• Possible role as Senior Environmental Manager for a rail infrastructure project with broad environmental compliance oversight.
• Project management and technical delivery of contaminated land projects including finances and programme.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior staff and support their development.
• Liaison with clients, regulators, sub-contractors and internal disciplines.
• Support business development and preparation of commercial offers to expand the client base.

Skills

Geology

EIA & Permitting

Project management

Client liaison

Contract management (NEC/ICE)

Education

Geology degree

Chartered membership

SiLC/SQP desirable

Tools

QGIS

ArcGIS

P20

ConSim

CLEA

Job description

Are you ready to take the next step in your contaminated land career? AtkinsRéalis is seeking a dynamic and motivated Senior / Principal Geo-Environmental Consultant specialising in environmental compliance, EIA, contaminated land and brownfield development to join our award-winning Contaminated Land & Hydrogeology team within the Sustainable Land and Resource Management Practice. Based in either our Exeter, Bristol, Birmingham, Cambridge, Epsom 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 supportive, collaborative, multi-disciplinary environment.Your role

• Assisting on the coordination and delivery of environmental work being undertaken by multi-disciplinary teams including EIA, options appraisals and environmental management and consenting, with a focus on soils and geology.
• Depending on role availability, fulfilling the role of Senior Environmental Manager for a client organisation within a major rail infrastructure construction project (this may require working out of a client office). The role would require broad environmental compliance oversight.
• 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.

  Higher education qualification in a relevant engineering or science subject (e.g. geology, geography, hydrogeology, chemistry, earth sciences, environmental science), with a good understanding of EIA and consenting.

• 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).
• 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 EIA and consenting, contaminated land, materials management and waste.
• Customer focused with good relationship management skills.
• Registered SiLC and SQP would be particularly welcomed to apply.
• Experience and knowledge of managing NEC3/4 and/or ICE contracts would be beneficial.
• Ideally, 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 would be beneficial (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.

  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., 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.

  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. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.