Join our team and let us help to shape your future

​Duties (after training) will include:

• Ordering data from external sources
• Assisting in the planning, organisation, and scheduling of site work
• Liaison with subcontractors
• Arranging delivery and collections to sites
• Co-ordinate and maintain daily schedules
• Record upkeep
• Other duties which assist in the day-to-day running of the department

Any candidate must be able to demonstrate the following abilities:

• Work well within a team and with other colleagues / sub-contractors
• Plan works, arrange and manage plant, machinery, and labour
• Good communicator in written and verbal skills
• Good computer skills in all Microsoft applications
• Problem solver and lateral thinker
• Maintain relationships with subcontractors

You will be part of our established team of Geotechnical and Contaminated Land experts, assisting in delivering successful projects. Your role will also be supported across our business, with skilled resources from all our other departments.

This is an ideal opportunity to develop your skills in a fast-growing small to medium-sized company and provide added value to the existing team.

The successful candidate will have an excellent academic background with relevant degree qualifications. Experience in the contaminated land industry would be preferred.

What you will be doing:

• Phase 1 desk studies
• Phase 2 site investigations
• Gas and groundwater monitoring
• Site work to include collection of soils and groundwater samples for laboratory testing and logging of geological material
• Working within a project team playing a key role in a wide variety of environmental projects
• Technical writing and input into environmental reports
• Client liaison
• Flexibility to work on sites across the whole of the UK

Key abilities for you to demonstrate:

• Work well within a team and with other colleagues/sub-contractors
• Plan works, arrange and manage site investigation
• Availability and willingness to work away from home
• Experience of undertaking site investigations
• Good communicator with written and verbal skills
• Good computer skills including use of Microsoft applications
• Problem solver and lateral thinker
• Full UK driving licence 

​Company benefits:

• Pension scheme
• Free access to BUPA mental wellbeing programme
• Professional and technical development opportunities

This exciting role will involve supporting and completing varied hydrological, surface water, flood risk and hydraulic modelling projects for our clients of consultancies, private sector clients, local authorities, water companies and private developers.

Experience required:

• MSc and/or BSc in Hydrology, Environmental Management or Civil Engineering or HND in Environment, Civil Engineering or Hydrology
• 2yrs+ working experience.
• Experience working for a UK based consultancy or local authority specialising in flood risk assessment and hydraulic modelling using flood modeller, WINFAP4, REFH2 and HEC-RAS.
• Modelling specialist authority completing 1D and 2D modelling of watercourses.
• Flood risk assessments and flood risk reports.
• Sustainable drainage systems and srategies.
• Drainage design using AutoCAD and hydraulic design software.

Responsibilities:

• Project management.
• Mentoring of junior staff members.
• Develop new business opportunities.
• Undertake and support initial assessments and engineering investigations.
• Identify solutions and involvement in design development.
• Working with a team of specialists to develop innovative, sustainable, and efficient solutions to programme and budget.
• Actively promote our integrated team working ethic.
• Ability to work independently.
• Working across the business umbrella to share information and develop ideas.

Technical work:

• Flood risk assessments for planning applications.
• Flood estimation using ReFH2.
• Hydrological assessments and hydraulic modelling.
• Model build and verification using flood modeller and HEC-RAS.
• Hydraulic modelling of watercourses as part of flood risk assessments for planning applications.
• Surface water management plans, drainage impact assessments, drainage strategy and details SuDS design using AutoCAD and/or hydraulic software.