Environmental Reporting Scientist

Job Description

How you can make your mark
Make your mark as an Environmental Reporting Scientist!

As an Environmental Reporting Scientist, you will interpret and present data in reports for our clients in an accurate, clear and concise manner. Data shall be from the Environmental Departments core disciplines of either Marine Wildlife or Environmental acquisition. Marine Wildlife data shall include sighting and acoustic data. Environmental data shall include chemical (sediment and water hydrocarbons, metals and nutrients), physical (particle size analysis and water profiling) and biological (plankton, benthic infauna or epifauna).

Your responsibilities

Collate project data related to field operations and organise electronic records. This includes raw analytical data, field logs, photographs and video recordings.

• Analyse, interpret and present data relevant to the Marine Wildlife and Environmental disciplines (training will be given where required) sufficient to satisfy client requirements.
• Qualitative, quantitative, statistical and geospatial analysis of data using appropriate software (training will be given where required).
• Interpret ecological status and effects of anthropogenic activities pertinent to the project.
• Draft reports based on field data, data analyses and interpretations.
• Maintain quality control records for reporting and report production.
• Update databases with individual project metadata and key analysis results when required.
• Assist Senior and Lead Environmental Reporting Scientists with quality control of data received from laboratories or external parties for own projects.

Qualifications

Your qualities
You can make your mark as an Environmental Reporting Scientist if you have:

• Right to work in the UK, we are unable to offer sponsorship.
• Bachelors Degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline (i.e. Marine Biology, Environmental Science etc.)
• MSc or higher degree in marine environmental subject is desirable
• Proven scientific writing capability
• Three years experience of MS Office products (particularly Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
• Marine survey and reporting experience in a relevant discipline is desirable
• Familiarity with ecology and physiology of one or more groups from marine wildlife, benthic, planktonic or nektonic fauna
• Experience of Adobe Acrobat, statistical (Primer, R) and geospatial (ArcGIS, QGIS).

Additional Information

What you can expect

• A range of benefits:In addition to your salary and flexible work arrangements, you will receive an annual holiday entitlement of 25 days (based on a full-time contract) which increases over time, a salary sacrifice pension scheme, access to private healthcare through Bupa now including yearly dental allowance, medication checks and face-to-face GP service, as well as cycle to work and eye test schemes and additional leave purchase scheme!
• Career opportunities: We challenge you every day to get better. Together we realize your full personal and professional career by creating development opportunities be that onshore or offshore.  Being part of the Boskalis Group also provides access to a vast range of opportunities literally across the globe!
• A warm welcome:We warmly welcome our new colleagues, so they feel at home as soon as possible. During your onboarding program, we give you all the ins and outs of Gardline!

Extra information

• Right to work in the UK, we are unable to offer sponsorship.
• Where you will work: Endeavour House, Admiralty Road, Great Yarmouth.
• Full-time position
• Procedure: All you need to do to apply for a job is to complete the online application process and send it to us along with your CV and cover letter. As soon as you have sent your application, you will receive a confirmation email. If both sides are happy to proceed, Interviews are held online or in the office. If successful we will make you an offer to join Gardline. After successfully completing all the steps in the procedure, we will warmly welcome you to our organisation.

Want to know more?
We are more than happy to answer your questions about the position of Training and Competency Coordinator. Please contact our recruitment team at [email protected]

Disclaimer for Recruiters and Recruitment Agencies
We appreciate your interest in our vacancies and understand that your candidate might be enthusiastic about this exciting opportunity. However, our recruitment process is not structured this way, at Boskalis we handle recruitment ourselves. Therefore, we do not accept unsolicited applications or CVs from recruitment agencies. Any submission will be treated as a direct application.