Senior and Principal Geoenvironmental Consultants
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A little more about your role…
We are seeking to grow our world class team to ensure we continue to deliver the high calibre of service and technical excellence both we and our clients expect. We are involved in many key projects of regional and national significance, which we deliver alongside our core Ireland and global framework projects.
We have an opportunity for Senior and Principal Contaminated Land / Geo-environmental Consultants to join our team. This role is specifically to support contaminated land assessment and remediation projects.
You will be based in our Naas, Ireland office. We offer a flexible and hybrid work environment, enabling our employees to work from home for part of the week.
This position offers excellent career development potential including training and mentoring. A competitive salary and benefits package will be provided.
Key Responsibilities
- Project and task management
- Management of site investigations
- Supervision of field work including soil logging and environmental sampling, chemical and geotechnical testing, groundwater sampling and ground gas monitoring
- Data collation, review and interpretation
- Preparation, drafting and reviewing of technical reports including desk studies, ground investigation reports and remediation options appraisals and verification reports.
- Site investigation design
- Liaise directly with clients, regulators and project stakeholders
- Development of client relationships
- Ensuring that all work is delivered in line with procedures and to the highest safety, health and environmental standards and Irish legislation
- Support to early careers professionals
Your team…
Our team across Ireland and the UK have over 150 professionals at all grades provides land contamination management services to private and public sector clients in the property, government agency, industrial, defence and nuclear sectors. We have expertise across all aspects of contaminated land meaning we have the means to support and develop career development. We have several exciting projects in the pipeline including supporting with the energy transition and nuclear decommissioning.
WSP provides an excellent environment in which to grow professionally, and the successful candidate will be fully supported with their continued development. The successful candidate will play a key role in the day-to-day delivery of projects, working closely with and being supported by team members, project managers and project directors.
What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…
Experience
- Knowledge of the requirements for planning, designing and management of site investigations
- Construction Design and Management (CDM) Regulations and their application to safe design and implementation of site investigations
- Understanding of the land contamination regime within Ireland and the risk-based approach to the assessment of land contamination
- Report writing including presenting complex technical information in a concise and accurate manner
- Data handling, including experience in the use of GIS is desirable
- Of different regulatory regimes, e.g. development planning consenting (TCPA and DCO), environmental permitting, due diligence, and GRR, environmental impact assessment
- Of specialist technical areas, e.g. quantitative risk assessment, waste/material management, radiological characterisation, hydrogeology, remediation
Qualifications
- Relevant technical degree e.g. chemistry, biology, geology, engineering, or environmental science
- Working towards / be prepared to work towards Chartership / Professional Qualification (e.g. QP) with a relevant institution
- The ability to travel is essential
If you don’t meet all that we are looking for please still consider applying. Not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn’t know we need.
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