Senior Environmental Scientist

To assist, support and facilitate development the remediation Technical Team;To ensure compliance with relevant site specifications, permits, licenses and monitoring conditions;To support the project team in undertaking site and office based work from a technical aspect, such as design, implementation, and review / reassessment including providing constructive feedback;To complete technical tender reviews, characterising site conditions to enable detailed scoping and pricing by the wider tender team;Assist in the detailed scoping and pricing of tenders;To assist and oversee the technical requirements of live projects to deliver project objectives;To complete and review Technical Team deliverables, including report writing, regulatory liaison and documentation ;To oversee waste disposal assessments and enquiries to ensure accordance with Waste Regulations;To communicate with client, regulatory bodies and assist business development; andTo keep up-to-date with developments to legislation and good practice guidance.JOB CONTENTTasks and Duties:Undertaking site visits for auditing, compliance and Technical Team QA/QC purposes;Ensuring live sites are compliant with regulatory and project specific requirements;Undertaking and / or coordinating site investigation and remediation works including reporting;Manage sampling and monitoring regimes and junior staff undertaking these activities to ensure compliance with environmental permits and any other site specific requirements;Oversee waste classification assessments and co-ordination with waste facilities;Review of permits, licences, consents and reports;Preparing and reviewing validation / completion reports;Directing technical tender review in order to develop CSMs;Providing clear direction to
technicians/scientists
within the team;Promoting inter-office working relationships between business units; andLiaising with clients, external contacts, and regulatory bodies when required.PERSON SPECIFICATION· Qualifications and Training8 years of relevant industry experience.Chartered (or working towards) with an appropriate professional body;Academic/Trade press publication history;Other relevant industry training e.g. Waste assessment training; andTraining on relevant computer softwareExperience of working in the environmental industry, ideally with a minimum of 8 years working in contaminated land industry;Practical understanding of LQRM (formerly CLR11) and Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, as amended;Practical understanding of legislation, guidance documents and codes of practice relevant to the industry;Practical understanding of CL:AIRE Definition of Waste Code of Practice (DoWCoP);Detailed interpretation of analytical data with respect to contaminated land risk assessment, options appraisal and site validation;Understanding of contaminated land reporting requirements with respect to the Planning Regime; andConceptual understanding of available remediation technologies.Knowledge of waste assessment in accordance with WM3;Experience of DQRA modelling;Experience of geotechnical design and earthworks validation;Understanding of wider regulations with respect to contaminated land and remediation;Practical understanding of Waste Recovery Permits;Commercial, operational and / or preconstruction understanding; andInterpretation of geotechnical information and/or geotechnical project experience.· Skills and AbilitiesAbility to work in a fast paced environment with a keen attention to detail, quality and timely delivery;Ability to communicate clearly, concisely and effectively with internal and external contacts, including imparting technical ideas to technical and non-technical persons;Flexible approach to office and site works;Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues;Ability to complete report writing to a high standard and review reports as required;Ability to review the output of junior members of the Technical Team; andAbility to feedback positively and negatively to junior members of the Technical Team.Experience of liaising directly with regulatory bodies and / or clients;Line Management experience; andKeltbray are an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favorable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.Send me alerts about jobs like this.Please enter your email address to continue setting up an email alert for similar jobs to this one. By entering your email address and clicking apply you will sign up to Jobs4 and agree to our terms and conditions .
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