Graduate Geoenvironmental Consultant
We currently have a vacancy for a motivated graduate to join our office in Daresbury near Warrington.
EPG is a leading Geoenvironmental Engineering Design Consultancy delivering cost-effective, sustainable designs, focused in the areas of contaminated land remediation and gas protection, sustainable water management, flood risk assessment and structural waterproofing. Our core values include combining regulatory compliance with complimentary innovative ideas and technologies to ensure we deliver robust, leading edge, cost-effective design solutions.
The successful candidate will help us to deliver effective and professional services for a range of varied and high-profile clients. While you’ll be given appropriate responsibilities from day one, we’ll give you the chance to take on more as you progress and broaden your skills through training from our team of industry experts.
If you have a degree in a relevant subject and are enthusiastic about a career in contaminated land, engineering and environmental science and want to work as part of a dynamic and forward-looking organisation, then we would like to hear from you.
Your work would include, among other things:
- Contaminated land investigation, ground gas risk assessment, vapour intrusion risk assessment, mitigation design and design of remediation strategies.
- Site work including ground gas, groundwater and vapour monitoring and sampling, including mobilising continuous monitoring equipment with telemetry.
- Specialist environmental monitoring techniques such as surface emissions and flux testing, dissolved gas testing, vapor pins, internal space surveys etc.
- Critically analysing information and data to enable design e.g. ground investigation data, survey information, ground gas monitoring data, geological data etc.
- Preparing site-specific interpretive reports.
- Producing conceptual site models and cross-sections.
- Using software packages such as GIS, Scalgo, Grapher, GasSim, CAD and CorelDRAW.
- Managing your own time and deadlines to meet project commitments.
- Undertaking regular training to further enhance your career development.
The role is full-time 36.25 hours per week and will include some travel throughout the UK and Ireland to undertake site work. There will be occasional stays away from home, but most site work completed during single day visits. We operate a “time-off-in-lieu” policy for travel outside of working hours. Support provided for professional development and working towards chartership.
Essential
- Degree in Civil Engineering, Geology, Environmental Science, Chemistry or another related field.
- Highly motivated individual with good organisational and analytical skills.
- Initiative to work individually or as part of a wider team.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to show initiative and creativity in problem solving.
- An interest in the environment and sustainable development.
- A keen eye for detail.
- Excellent word processing and excel skills, along with general IT proficiency.
- Full UK driving licence.
Desirable
- Basic GIS skills.
- Report writing experience.
- Experience working outdoors in adverse weather conditions.
- Previous experience of geo-environmental site investigation, monitoring or assessments.
Benefits:
- Canteen
- Company events
- Company pension
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
