Soil Consultant/Senior Consultant

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:
As part of a growing and agile business, our Soils and Sustainable Land Management team is looking for a Soils Consultant. You will work as part of the team and collaboratively with a range of technical specialists on a broad range of projects, deliver topic-specific input to Environmental Impacts Assessments and related deliverables and work closely with clients.

As part of our Environmental team, you'll help improve quality of life. With your specialism in environmental management, or your technical or sustainability expertise, your work could involve protected species, pollution, surface water and materials management, air quality or noise. And in some of the world's busiest and most beautiful locations.

We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we're feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we're seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Role accountabilities:
You'll be instrumental in improving the understanding and sustainable management of soils and the impacts of land use change for a diverse range of projects including large scale energy and infrastructure projects, large-scale mixed-use development schemes for both private and public clients, public realm and masterplanning projects. We drive technical excellence in everything we do and promote a flexible and collaborative environment supported by digital innovation. You will play a key role in the successful delivery of major multidisciplinary development projects.

• Act as a project resource, completing allocated activities to meet budget, timeframe and quality objectives and meeting or exceeding client expectations
• Carry out desk-based and site surveys to support the development of technical solutions
• Prepare documentation and reports ensuring accuracy and compliance with Arcadis requirements and relevant national standards and codes of practice
• Liaise with Project Managers/Team leaders and clients to ensure effective communication on project matters
• Contribute to the resolution of technical issues on projects and provide technical guidance to other team members
• Collaborate with other sectors/disciplines to ensure the integrity of the overall project
• Review work carried out by colleagues to ensure that it meets specified standards
• Develop and maintain technical knowledge (for example national regulations, regulatory guidance, national standards, codes of practice and Arcadis procedures) to ensure ongoing personal effectiveness
• Further develop understanding of the services delivered by Arcadis, of the client's business and the industry sector to facilitate personal networking and to develop personal credibility in the industry

Qualifications & Experience:

• Good knowledge of the key principles of soil science and land management and experience with applying in practice
• Understanding of Environmental Impact Assessment, experience of multi-disciplinary working and broad sector experience
• Experience of soil surveying, ideally including knowledge and experience of the Agricultural Land Classification system.
• Member of the British Society of Soil Science and willing to work towards chartership with an accredited Institution.
• Relevant degree or equivalent qualification, preferably with chartered status or working towards
• Understanding of Arcadis key financial metrics and the implications on the successful operation of the business
• Advanced research, data gathering and analysis skills

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

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We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.