Senior Environmental Consultant

We have a great opportunity for a dynamic and motivated Senior Environmental Consultant to join our Contaminated Land & Hydrogeology team.

Atkins part of SNC Lavalin’s business is one of the world’s leading engineering and design consultancies; we have the breadth and depth of expertise to respond to the most technically challenging and time critical infrastructure projects. The Contaminated Land & Hydrogeology Practice is a well-established, award winning, multi-disciplinary, environmental and engineering practice with an extensive portfolio of regeneration and development projects and a highly skilled team; notably with staff winning various awards over the past years.

**Responsibilities**
- Provide technical guidance, constructive support and mentoring to junior staff and supporting their technical development.
- Provide technical input on and delivery of contaminated land and waste projects / contaminated land and waste aspects of multidisciplinary projects.
- Project management and technical delivery of a wide variety of projects including management of finances, and programme delivery.
- Organising / managing / checking site work.
- Liaison with clients, stakeholders, regulators, sub contractors and other internal disciplines.
- Supporting senior management in developing new business and clients to win work and preparation of commercial offers.
- Preparation of H&S Plans for site investigations and managing health and safety.
- Developing own competence and maintain CPD necessary to fulfil the responsibilities of the role, with support from the business on own training and development needs.

**Requirements**:

- Chartered or working towards chartership with GeolSoc, IES, IEMA, CIWEM or equivalent.
- Experience working in the contaminated land industry or as an environmental consultant within consultancy, industry, regulatory or academic fields with a track record in delivering work, client management and stakeholder liaison.
- Understanding of the environmental and regulatory framework of UK with respect to land contamination.
- Knowledge of sustainable re-use of soils during remediation / construction works using the Definition of Waste CL:AIRE Code of Practice and Material Management Plans.
- Experience of Phase 1 Desk Studies, Phase 2 Site Investigations, remediation design and verification / validation for a range of projects and clients.
- Experience and knowledge, earthworks specifications, piling risk assessments, EIAs, waste management, due diligence and permitting (desirable).
- Willingness to work part time at a client office.

**What we offer**
- Part-time and/or flexible hours contracts.
- Home / flexible working with an Atkins office within the North East (Stockton, Leeds or Newcastle) as home office location.
- Paid overtime and/or TOIL system.
- Competitive salaries and a huge range of other benefits.
- 25 days annual leave, plus paid bank holidays, plus the ability to buy up to 15 extra days annual leave
- Paid professional memberships and individual training budgets.
- Use of team I-pad’s for work purposes.
- Tailored training and mentoring schemes to advance your career.
- And so much more

Here at Atkins, well-being is at the forefront of everything we do. We recognise that there is more to life than work and that making time for the other things is crucial for health and happiness. Therefore, if working from home, working part-time or having flexible start and finish times will help with this, we are more than happy to discuss individual requirements (and to keep these requirements flexible going forward). Our IT systems support home-working, so where you have parental or carer duties; or you simply need to be elsewhere for a parcel, servicing your car, or waiting in for a tradesperson; Atkins will work for you. Similarly, Atkins’ corporate social responsibility provides the opportunity to give something back to the community with paid volunteer days, STEM activities, and professional networks supporting groups such as local schools, charities, parents, those coming out of the armed-forces and women in engineering.

Atkins is committed to promoting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. We have a commitment to identify and recruit from the most diverse talent pool and develop new and improved ways to sponsor talent from underrepresented groups. We have a range of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion network groups encouraging an inclusive workplace where all employees can flourish, including Embrace (supporting minority ethnicities), Enable (supporting visible and invisible disabilities) Equilibrium (for LGBT+ colleagues), Menopause at Work, Neurodiversity (for variations in learning, attention and other mental functions), ParentNet, and Empower (providing professional support by and for women).

**Training**

Atkins develops individuals through a portfolio of training and development activities designed to help you make the best of your abilities and talents. These are review