Geoscientific Modelling Consultant

7 days ago

Didcot, United Kingdom Jacobs Full time

**Your Impact**:
At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

**About the Opportunity**
Jacobs is currently recruiting for a Geoscientific Modelling Consultant to join our Radioactive Waste Management and Disposal business. The role can be based at Harwell, London, Birchwood or other locations will be considered. The successful applicant will be part of a multi-disciplinary team (including chemists, physicists, geologists, engineers, safety case specialists and mathematicians) to deliver a range of projects on behalf of UK-based and international customers.

Our Waste Management, Disposal and Safety Case teams have led the field of research and assessment work related to the safe management and disposal of radioactive waste, for over 30 years. The team has a wide breadth of both nationally and internationally respected expertise to provide consultancy, modelling, safety case and laboratory studies to underpin the science, technology and engineering to allow the safe disposal of radioactive waste.

**Key Responsibilities**:
You will work on a range of consultancy projects for customers including radioactive waste producers, radioactive waste management organisations and regulators, both in the UK and overseas. This will include a wide variety of activities across the areas of radioactive waste management and geological disposal, including:

- Provision of input to a range of technical areas; including numerical modelling, and other forms of simple and complex modelling used to underpin the safety of geological disposal facilities.
- Production of technical reports and presentations that effectively communicate detailed scientific data to non-specialists.
- Developing an understanding of the underlying requirements of our customers, and how we can meet those requirements.
- Analysing problems and developing solutions.
- Delivering work to agreed timescales.
- Supporting other team members with business development activities.

**Here’s What You’ll Need**:

- A postgraduate degree in Earth sciences, physical sciences, an engineering discipline or mathematics.
- Technically able, with a demonstrable track record of creative problem solving.
- Flexible, innovative and keen to develop skills.
- Adaptable and able to work on a variety of projects, prioritising as appropriate.
- Able to work in multi-disciplinary teams.
- A PhD in Earth sciences, physical sciences, an engineering discipline or mathematics.
- Experience of using GoldSim to simulate contaminant transport through complex geological settings.
- Experience of using PHREEQC to model chemical interactions in cementitious environments, to determine chemical parameters for contaminants and/or to model contaminant transport.
- Experience of scientific programming (e.g., Python, MATLAB).
- A good understanding of geochemistry, geology, and mineralogy.
- Experience of geotechnical modelling, including rock mechanics modelling.
- Ability to visualise 3D systems.
- Experience analysing geophysical and geological borehole data.
- Experience of using Leapfrog, Kingdom, and/or ArcGIS to visualise and model geological and geophysical data.

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