Principal Geochemist Consultant

GREAT JOB, GREAT COMPANY

Want to further your career in these aspects of environmental consultancy  within one of the UK’s top consultancies? This is a fantastic opportunity to further your career with an established and successful company that prioritises the welfare and wellbeing of our people.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are seeking specialists with a background and proven experience in the fields of geochemistry and related hydrogeology who can demonstrate an aptitude for leading these aspects of projects through initial assessment of the task or problem through to detailed investigations, analysis and provision of sustainable solutions to mitigate environmental risks.

 This is a fantastic opportunity to further your career within an established and successful company that has ESG, welfare and wellbeing of staff as core values.

As a project leader, you can handle, with support from senior staff, the technical and commercial aspects of  projects with a geochemistry – hydrogeology focus  from start to finish. You know how to investigate, analyse, design and deliver solutions that meet the clients' needs and expectations. You can also communicate effectively with clients and staff, build and maintain strong relationships, and provide guidance and support to your team.

Here’s what you’ll do: 

• Conduct Assessments: Lead the performing of environmental assessments, including PSA, DSA, QRA, DQRA and CSM development, ensuring thorough and accurate evaluations. An aptitude for numerical groundwater – surface water modelling will be considered a further asset
• Oversee groundwater and surface water monitoring, providing critical data for project analysis and decision-making.
• Design Investigations: Lead the design and implementation of site investigations, setting out the rationale, ensuring comprehensive and effective examination of project sites in the geochemical and hydrogeological environment.
• Implement Remediation: Develop, optioneer, specify, detail execute, and validate remediation projects, ensuring successful restoration and compliance with environmental standards.
• Strategic Advice:  with the support of senior staff, engage in developing and providing strategic advice to clients on managing and mitigating environmental impacts upon the water environment whether impacts upon surface waters or groundwater

Our award-winning team is one of the largest contaminated land/remediation-focused teams inthe UK, serving a wide range of end markets and clients. Our experts provide one-stop access to services ranging from desk studies, site investigation, risk assessment, remediation (strategy development, optioneering, design, implementation and validation), monitoring and close-out on a wide range of contracts.

We work for leading British and international clients on commissions of varying scale for both public sector bodies and high-profile private sector clients across the commercial development, mining, aviation, rail, power, transportation, technology, regulatory, chemical and pharmaceutical sectors.