Senior Environmental Scientist

Senior Environmental Scientist:

The position is for an Environmental Consultant to work within our Climate and Sustainability Services business in London. You will lead delivery of contaminated land assessments for a large nationally significant project. Clients will include private developers, public sector authorities and other organisations. You will be working in a multi-disciplinary environment alongside other environmental, planning, engineering and urban design specialists, and will work closely with technical disciplines (both internal and external) to deliver high quality environmental consultancy services in contaminated land and brownfield development.

You'll be mainly office based and may visit site when required. This may include managing ground investigations including supporting junior staff, working with ground investigation contractors and liaising with client teams.

You will be responsible for: Technical delivery of contaminated land assessments. Managing junior staff supporting the delivery of contaminated land assessments. Writing environmental reports. Project management activities including programming and budget control. Interfacing with multi-disciplinary project teams. Communicating and liaising with clients. Engaging and negotiating with stakeholders

You will be a motivated, enthusiastic and competent individual with extensive environmental consultancy knowledge in the contaminated land field.

We are looking for individuals with the following skills:

• Honours degree in a relevant subject. Member of a relevant institute (e.g. CIWEM, IES, Geological Society of London, RSC) and full Chartered status or working towards Chartered status.
• Excellent understanding of environmental legislation relating to contaminated land, and experience of application of relevant legislation, policy and guidance in respect to assessment for a range of project types.
• Knowledge of major projects, Development Consent Orders, Environmental Statements and environmental permitting (desirable).
• Ability to manage and direct more junior staff and good analytical skills with a focus on finding solutions in relation to assessment technical and project management issues.
• Ability to work within a commercial environment, including client liaison, programme and time management, quality assurance and financial/budget control.