Senior Geo-Environmental Consultant

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

Are you ready to shape the future of Investigations and Remediation? Want to further your career within one of the UK’s top soil, groundwater and remediation consultancies.

If so, this is the job for you. We’re seeking an experienced Senior Geo-Environmental Consultant to be based in our Glasgow or Edinburgh office. This is a fantastic opportunity to further your career within an established and successful company that has welfare and wellbeing as core values.

Contact us to find out more about this exciting opportunity and how our Freedom to Grow policy will enable you to achieve a rewarding work-life balance.

Here’s what you’ll do: 

• Deliver Projects: Take day-to-day responsibility for delivering ground investigation and remediation projects, ensuring technical quality, budget adherence, and program timelines.
• Work Independently: Operate with a high degree of independence to maintain technical excellence and project management.
• Prepare Proposals: Develop fee proposals for both external and internal clients, ensuring clear and competitive project outlines.
• Lead Project Phases: Guide projects from desk study and feasibility through to ground investigation, interpretation, and final design.
• Apply Technical Skills: Utilize your technical and commercial skills, knowledge, and experience to manage all aspects of project delivery.
• Collaborate: Work effectively as an ambitious team player, contributing to the success of the team and the projects.

Our award winning team serves a wide range of end markets and clients. Our experts provide one-stop access to services ranging from desk studies, site investigation, risk assessment, remediation (strategy development, design, implementation and validation), monitoring and close-out on a wide range of contracts. We work for leading UK and international clients on commissions of varying scale across all sectors, such as industrial, water, local government, strategic land holders, defence, ports, road and rail.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? 

Here’s what we’re looking for: 

• In-depth knowledge of contaminated land legislation, regulations and guidance across the UK and Ireland, with particular expertise in Scotland.
• Practical field investigation experience, including site management, drilling supervision, geo-environmental sample scheduling and analysis, groundwater and ground gas sampling, and remediation supervision.
• Experience designing, supervising and managing geo-environmental site investigations.
• Expertise in developing robust conceptual site models.
• Proficiency in qualitative and/or quantitative risk assessment relating to soil, water, ground gas and mine gas.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear, concise technical documents, including desk studies and interpretative reports.
• Chartered status, or progress towards chartership, with a relevant professional institution.
• A sound understanding of the Construction (Design and Management)  (CDM) Regulations and their application to site management.
• A full, clean driving licence and willingness to travel across the UK.

Additional Information

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn (AnneMarieFlynn)

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.