Geo-Environmental Consultants/ Contaminated Land – Various Positions

Are you looking for your next career step? Do you want the opportunity to work on a broad range of projects, utilising your environmental skills and experience to help support our clients through the regeneration of brownfield and greenfield sites? This role will provide you with this opportunity whilst working within a market leading environmental consultancy team. 

About Our Environment Advisory Group:

Our Environment Group has been providing environmental solutions for our clients for over 30 years in the UK. We offer a comprehensive range of environmental services to support all sizes and types of development. From high profile infrastructure projects such as Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Farms and Sizewell C Nuclear Power Station to carbon management, climate resilience, locally-driven habitat enhancement and wider biodiversity net gain projects. We combine market-leading technical excellence, across the range of environmental disciplines, with a clear understanding of clients’ ambitions, needs and pressures.

We specialise in geo environmental support for complex infrastructure developments and operations. We have successfully supported our clients in delivering sustainable projects in sectors including energy, industry, restoration projects, residential and port redevelopment.

Due to continued growth in a variety of markets including onshore redevelopment we are looking to grow our team for various roles.

Job Role:

We are seeking an enthusiastic, optimistic, conscientious and talented individuals with excellent communication skills and technical ability in relation to the detailed geo environmental assessment reports for human health and controlled waters. We are presently looking to fill various roles due to our forward pipeline at a variety of levels.

About You

You will hold a degree in geology, engineering geology or a relevant environmental science discipline. It is also required that you have a full, preferably clean, driving licence.

The roles require a variety of skill sets which should include a combination of the attributes below:

• Experience in the delivery and writing all levels of geo environmental reports to a high standard in accordance with Land Contamination Risk Management guidance 2025.
• Writing of non-standard technical reports bespoke to project requirements.
• A thorough working knowledge of the Thomas Telford Specification for Ground Investigation version 2 and version 3 (the Yellow Book).
• Experience in supervising and managing ground investigation including soil and rock logging and gas and groundwater sampling and monitoring in contaminated land.
• Undertaking of the role of Principal Designer and Investigation Supervisor.
• An excellent understand of regulatory and legal requirements in relation to contaminated land.
• Experience in Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) and the DCO process.
• Experience in site selection and masterplanning.
• Deemed to be competent under the National Planning Policy Framework in relation Contaminated Land.
• Ability to technical review reports of all levels.
• The ability to come up with outside the box solutions to problems.
• Usage of QGIS and other digital software such as Open Ground, Leapfrog etc.
• Experience in dealing with the planning process in relation to contaminated land.
• Additional experience in hydrogeology, mineral safeguarding, waste issues and soil science.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, organisational, analytical and time management skills.
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.

And if you are:

• Dependable, pro-active and self-motivated.
• Flexible and adaptive.

What we can offer you:

Ambitious. Exciting. Lively. Collaborative. Dynamic. That’s how our colleagues describe our company. Want to contribute to Enhancing Society with your expertise? Be part of an open network where you’re connected with the brightest and smartest people and technologies? Join us!

You can look forward to growing your career in a dynamic workplace with development opportunities and support on your career path. We have flexible working models to ensure a balance of family and working life.

About Haskoning:
Haskoning has been connecting people for 140 years. Together, through our expertise and passion, we have helped contribute to a better society and improved people’s lives with work underpinned by our sustainable values and goals. We are an independent international engineering and project management consultancy leading the way in sustainable development and innovation.

Haskoning is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions. Together, we are embarking on a journey where each and every one of us, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrates individual differences. We recognise that embracing diversity unlocks innovation and creativity and fosters collaboration. We want our employees to reflect the diversity of our communities and the customers we serve.

Location: Newcastle, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Peterborough, Exeter, London or Brighton