Senior Environmental Consultant - Leeds, United Kingdom - OHES Environmental

OHES Environmental

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Leeds, United Kingdom

11 hours ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Who we are:

The Adler & Allan group provide environmental and energy infrastructure services that protect the environment and reduce the risk of pollution, operational downtime, profit loss and reputation damage for our customers.

As part of the Adler & Allan group,
OHES Environmental Ltd provides multi-disciplinary environmental consultancy services that protect the environment, whilst reducing the risk of pollution, profit loss and reputational damage for our clients.

Operating from sites UK wide, we combine technical expertise with a pragmatic and commercially focused approach.

Our solutions help our clients achieve their business and sustainability goals, by understanding, managing, and reducing the environmental risks associated with land transactions, property development, day-to-day operations and following pollution incidents.

We are an ambitious team who are focused on growth, putting our customers at the heart of what we do, and we live our values of Safety, Service, Working Together, Wellbeing and Expertise.

Our culture is can-do, fun and where everyone has a part to play.

We're looking for driven and enthusiastic Environmental Consultants at all levels to join our established teams across multiple locations across the UK.

If you want a hands on role helping businesses and protecting the environment, this role could be for you

What we would like to offer you:

Competitive starting salary
Company vehicle or car allowance
Company Pension scheme
Refer a friend scheme
25 days annual leave per year, plus bank holidays
Company phone, laptop, iPad and PPE provided
Training and development opportunities (with support and a clear path of career progression)
Life Assurance Scheme (4 x annual salary)
Homebased roles and flexible working options available

Employee Assistance Programme

EAP (with access to GP appointments, physio appointments and mental health support)
Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Shared Parental and Adoption pay
A diverse and inclusive working environment
Opportunities for overtime
Free eye tests and money towards glasses

Senior Environmental Consultant role:

An opportunity has arisen for a suitably qualified and experienced individual to join the team in the position of Senior Environmental Consultant, as part of the Consultancy North team, reporting to the Regional Manager.

The Senior Environmental Consultant will support the Consultancy Division in providing customers, colleagues and other stakeholders with commercially aware, technically proficient and professional environmental risk reduction services.

This is a full-time role with daily hours of 9am - 5pm, with a one hour unpaid meal break, Monday - Friday (35 hours per week).

Due to the responsibilities associated with the role, it will be necessary to dedicate any hours as required to provide the managerial support to the business to ensure all tasks are completed.

The post holder will also be required to satisfy overtime requirements and due to the nature of the duties of this post on occasion may be required to stay away from home overnight.

Key tasks and accountabilities associated with the post are as follows:

Project management with support/training from the regional team, finance and consultancy support teams.
Arrange site works (including investigation and remediation works) in accordance with scope including communication with relevant parties.
Site investigation design.
Supervise site investigations, remediation works and verification/validations, and perform associated sampling and monitoring.
Manage contractors onsite and maintain high standards of health and safety and quality.
Schedule samples for appropriate laboratory analysis and liaise with the laboratory.
Prepare reports including:
Preliminary Risk Assessments
Interpretive site investigation reports
Site verification/validation reports.
Control and take responsibility for project financials.
Assisting Principal Environmental Consultants in the development and training of less experienced team members.
Identify and share opportunities for the wider A&A group.
Demonstrate a commitment to ensuring consistently high levels of safety, technical robustness, commercial awareness, organisation and customer satisfaction.
Perform other duties as required by the consultancy division and other areas of the business in order to meet business needs

Person Specification:

Hold a degree in a relevant earth science or geoenvironmental related discipline and ideally some professional qualifications while working towards Chartership with a relevant organisation.
Knowledge of the available site investigation techniques, and experience supervising a variety of them, particularly the available drilling techniques.
Experience of working on contaminated land projects where there is petroleum hydrocarbon contamination would be of particular benefit.
Working knowledge of relevant envi