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Principal Geo Environmental Engineer

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Milton Keynes

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GBP 45,000 - 75,000

Full time

17 days ago

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A forward-thinking company is seeking a Principal Level Geo-Environmental Engineer to join their dynamic team. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on diverse projects across the south of England, allowing for rapid professional growth and development. You will lead a small team, manage site investigations, and ensure compliance with environmental legislation. Ideal candidates will possess excellent communication skills and a strong technical background in geo-environmental engineering. Join a friendly and busy consultancy that values innovation and teamwork, and make a significant impact in the field of environmental engineering.

Degree qualified in a relevant field, with a Master's being advantageous.
Experience in Ground Investigation, especially Geo-Environmental aspects.

Manage and mentor a small team of Engineers.
Conduct Site Contamination Assessments and geotechnical investigations.
Project management and client liaison, including cost control.

Geo-Environmental Engineering

Site Contamination Assessments

Geotechnical Appraisal

Project Management

HSEQ Understanding

Interpretative Report Writing

Team Management

Communication Skills

Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field

Master's Degree in a related field

Job Description

My client has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Level Geo-Environmental Engineer for either their Milton Keynes or Swindon offices with great development and progression prospects versus a larger consultancy. They are a busy and friendly geo-environmental, geotechnical and site investigation company operating on varying size projects across the south of England, Wales and the Midlands for a range of clients from small to medium house builders to commercial businesses and mineral extraction, allowing staff to gather a breadth of knowledge in a short space of time.

Responsibilities

Manage and mentor a small team of Engineers
Technical lead in team
Carrying out Site Contamination Assessments from Stage 1 Tier 1 to Stage 3
Carrying out Site Investigation for geotechnical appraisal and combined investigations using all common techniques
Scheduling contamination, waste classification and geotechnical laboratory testing
Design of remediation works and validation
Interpretative geo-environmental report writing
Project management and client liaison, including project cost control
Carry out infiltration testing
Good HSEQ understanding
Full clean driving license

A thorough technical understanding of contaminated land legislation and consultancy would be required. Also, an understanding of interpretative geotechnical report writing would be advantageous, as would a working understanding of the EIA process and reporting.

Qualifications

The candidate would be degree qualified in a relevant field, with a related Masters Degree being advantageous, as would be Chartership with a relevant body. The candidate must have a good level of experience specialising in Ground Investigation, especially Geo-Environmental aspects.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate would be a solution-focused person with excellent communication skills and have a traceable HSEQ and technical record as well as being an effective project manager and highly competent manager and mentor to junior staff.

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