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 advantageous. 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