31418 - Technical Specialist Groundwater and Contaminated Land
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 09 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £41,617 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 27 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Preston |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 5 ddiwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | Environment Agency |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 31418 |
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At the Environment Agency we aspire for inclusivity to thrive in our workforce. We embrace equal opportunities and flexible work arrangements, ensuring everyone can contribute and succeed.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced geoscientist with skills in technical leadership, groundwater quality and land contamination management in Cumbria and Lancashire.
You will use your technical knowledge and professional judgement to make challenging operational and regulatory decisions and provide risk-based advice.
Customers include internal teams, water companies, industry, developers and local authorities.
In this role you will provide technical leadership and expertise for the work of the team relating to land and water quality; permitting and planning work relating to land contamination; voluntary remediation; mine-waters; ongoing Part 2A work. You will:
• Provide and oversee specialist support to Installations, Land and Water and Waste teams on land quality and groundwater issues at permitted and unpermitted sites.
• Lead and develop work to protect groundwater and surface water from land contamination and provide advice on risk relating to pollution incidents
• Develop the technical capability of the team - ensuring a high standard of work and planning for development and succession.
• Ensure effective work delivery, prioritising workload and innovating to improve efficiency.
• Interpret and translate technical information and guidance to ensure delivery of practical solutions for customers, colleagues and the environment.
The team
The role will sit within the Area Groundwater and Contaminated Land team in Cumbria and Lancashire.. The team includes specialists in groundwater resources, groundwater quality, land contamination and surface water protection . We are currently dispersed across the North-West with area offices in Preston and Penrith. The role will be based at Preston or Penrith at one of our area offices. There will be a need for some travel to meetings and sites.
Experience/skills required
We are seeking a hydrogeologist with at least 5 years relevant experience, qualified to at least degree level in a relevant discipline and chartered or working towards chartership. You will be able to demonstrate most of the following experience and skills:
-a relevant geoscience related degree or equivalent experience and a relevant postgraduate qualification
-a professional qualification or Chartered status is desirable (typically Geological Society, ICE or CiWEM), if not chartered then you should ideally be a member and working towards this.
-ability to construct conceptual models, understand contaminant transport in the sub-surface and undertake hydrogeological risk assessment.
-strong communication and interpersonal skills and experience of communicating complex hydrogeological results to non-specialist audiences
-knowledge of Environmental Permitting Regulations
-knowledge of Town and Country Planning
-knowledge and experience of investigation and remediation of land and groundwater contamination.
-ability to influence customers and colleagues through clear, well-reasoned arguments.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced geoscientist with skills in technical leadership, groundwater quality and land contamination management in Cumbria and Lancashire.
You will use your technical knowledge and professional judgement to make challenging operational and regulatory decisions and provide risk-based advice.
Customers include internal teams, water companies, industry, developers and local authorities.
In this role you will provide technical leadership and expertise for the work of the team relating to land and water quality; permitting and planning work relating to land contamination; voluntary remediation; mine-waters; ongoing Part 2A work. You will:
• Provide and oversee specialist support to Installations, Land and Water and Waste teams on land quality and groundwater issues at permitted and unpermitted sites.
• Lead and develop work to protect groundwater and surface water from land contamination and provide advice on risk relating to pollution incidents
• Develop the technical capability of the team - ensuring a high standard of work and planning for development and succession.
• Ensure effective work delivery, prioritising workload and innovating to improve efficiency.
• Interpret and translate technical information and guidance to ensure delivery of practical solutions for customers, colleagues and the environment.
The team
The role will sit within the Area Groundwater and Contaminated Land team in Cumbria and Lancashire.. The team includes specialists in groundwater resources, groundwater quality, land contamination and surface water protection . We are currently dispersed across the North-West with area offices in Preston and Penrith. The role will be based at Preston or Penrith at one of our area offices. There will be a need for some travel to meetings and sites.
Experience/skills required
We are seeking a hydrogeologist with at least 5 years relevant experience, qualified to at least degree level in a relevant discipline and chartered or working towards chartership. You will be able to demonstrate most of the following experience and skills:
-a relevant geoscience related degree or equivalent experience and a relevant postgraduate qualification
-a professional qualification or Chartered status is desirable (typically Geological Society, ICE or CiWEM), if not chartered then you should ideally be a member and working towards this.
-ability to construct conceptual models, understand contaminant transport in the sub-surface and undertake hydrogeological risk assessment.
-strong communication and interpersonal skills and experience of communicating complex hydrogeological results to non-specialist audiences
-knowledge of Environmental Permitting Regulations
-knowledge of Town and Country Planning
-knowledge and experience of investigation and remediation of land and groundwater contamination.
-ability to influence customers and colleagues through clear, well-reasoned arguments.