Principal Geo-Environmental Engineer

We have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Level Geo-Environmental Engineer for our Swindon or Milton Keynes offices with great development and progression prospects versus a larger consultancy.

PGE are a busy and friendly geo-environmental, geotechnical and site investigation company operating on varying size projects across the south of England, Wales and the Midlands for a range of clients from small to medium house builders to commercial businesses and mineral extraction, allowing our staff to gather a breadth of knowledge in a short space of time.

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor a small team of Engineers
• Technical lead in team
• Carrying out Site Contamination Assessments from Stage 1 Tier 1 to Stage 3.
• Carrying out Site Investigation for geotechnical appraisal and combined investigations using all common techniques.
• Scheduling contamination, waste classification and geotechnical laboratory testing
• Design of remediation works and validation
• Interpretative geo-environmental report writing
• Project management and client liaison, including project cost control
• Carry out infiltration testing.
• Good HSEQ understanding
• Full clean driving license

A through technical understanding of contaminated land legislation and consultancy would be required. Also an understanding of interpretative geotechnical report writing would be advantageous, as would a working understanding of the EIA process and reporting advantageous.

Qualifications

The candidate would be degree qualified in a relevant field, with a related Masters Degree being advantageous, as would be Chartership with a relevant body.

The candidate must have greater than 10 years experience specialising in Ground Investigation, especially Geo-Environmental aspects.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate would be a solution focused person with excellent communication skills and have a traceable HSEQ and technical record as well as being an effective project manager and highly competent manager and mentor to junior staff.

The suitable candidate would be offered a very competitive salary package, including vehicle or vehicle allowance, salary sacrifice options, pension plus a retention bonus after the first 6 months.