Senior Environmental Consultant

 

Main characteristics

Company

Adler & Allan

Employment type

Permanent

Category

Consulting

Job summary

Senior Environmental Consultant
Locations: Risby (Bury St Edmunds / East Anglia)
Salary: £28-£32k negotiable depending on experience + Company car
Hours of Work: 9-5 Monday to Friday with an hour for lunch
Holiday allowance: 25 days + bank holidays
About the Company:
At Adler and Allan, we provide market leading environmental risk reduction through preventative and responsive solutions offering an expert 24-7 service to our customers. We give our customers peace of mind in detecting and identifying the environmental risks posed to their business. Our broad range of risk mitigation products and services keep businesses strong, reducing the prospect of litigation, costly fines and bad publicity, as well as reducing the threat to the environment. In a world where the environment and legislation are in constant flux, we also provide emergency response in a variety of settings. Our customers include multinational blue-chip organisations across a wide range of sectors both private and public.
About the Senior Environmental Consultant Role:
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.
This is a full-time role with daily hours of 9am - 5pm, Monday to Friday with a one-hour unpaid meal break. (35 hours per week). Due to the responsibilities associated with the role, it will be necessary to dedicate any hours as required to provide the managerial support to the business to ensure all tasks are completed. The post holder will also be required to satisfy overtime requirements and due to the nature of the duties of this post on occasion may be required to stay away from home overnight.
Senior Environmental Consultant Responsibilities:
* Project management with support/training from the regional team, finance and consultancy support teams.
* Arrange site works (including investigation and remediation works) in accordance with scope including communication with relevant parties.
* Site investigation design.
* Supervise site investigations, remediation works and verification/validations, and perform associated sampling and monitoring.
* Manage contractors on-site and maintain high standards of health and safety and quality.
* Schedule samples for appropriate laboratory analysis and liaise with the laboratory.
* Prepare reports including:
* Preliminary Risk Assessments
* Interpretive site investigation reports
* Site verification/validation reports.
* Control and take responsibility for project financials.
* Assisting Principal Environmental Consultants in the development and training of less experienced team members.
* Identify and share opportunities for the wider A&A group.
* Demonstrate a commitment to ensuring consistently high levels of safety, technical robustness, commercial awareness, organisation and customer satisfaction.
* Perform other duties as required by the consultancy division and other areas of the business in order to meet business needs.
Senior Environmental Consultant Requirements:
* Hold a BSc in geography / Environmental Science or similar, and a relevant Masters degree is preferred.
* Full UK Driving Licence as you will be required to travel to any location within the Company's operational footprint (Essential)
* 4+ years' experience in an Environmental Consultancy role.
* Knowledge of the available site investigation techniques, and experience supervising a variety of them, particularly the available drilling techniques.
* Experience of working on contaminated land projects where there is petroleum hydrocarbon contamination would be of particular benefit.
* Working knowledge of relevant environmental guidance, regulation and legislation.
* Proficiency in logging soil / rock in accordance with BS5930.
* Understanding in the development and updating of CSMs.
* Post holder will attend domestic and commercial properties to assist members of the public and as such, must provide a professional service and image of the Company at all times.
* Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate with colleagues, workforce and clients at all levels.
* Awareness of the available remediation techniques for soil and groundwater.
* Understanding of chemical analyses which can be performed on soil, water and air samples.
* Excellent organisational and time-management skills.
* Be computer literate and proficient in the use of Microsoft applications.
* Awareness of the wider environmental risk reduction sector.
* The post holder must be able to adapt to an environment of growth.
* A teamwork ethic is essential and the provision of support, advice and training to lesser experienced team members will be required on an ongoing basis.
* Adhere to company policies and procedures and promote A&A Group values.
If you think that you are suitable for this Senior Environmental Consultant role, please apply now!
Due to the Lockdown, all interviews will be done via Microsoft teams.