Environmental Consultant

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:  With a growing pipeline of diverse project work we have a new opportunity for a Principal Engineer/Geologist/Hydrogeologist/Environmental Consultant to join our Investigation & Restoration (Contaminated Land) team in NSW. Joining a growing team, you will have the opportunity to take on projects independently while collaborating with our technical directors to deliver a range of medium to large scale projects both locally and nationally in addition to mentoring junior Environmental staff.   Role accountabilities:

• Work across a broad range of contaminated land project types including public infrastructure and commercial/industrial
• Work independently with guidance from technical directors as required
• Undertake contaminated site assessment, management and remediation projects including field investigations 
• Have a strong understanding of NSW and national guidance pertaining to contaminated land management including contaminated land auditor scheme and risk assessment principles
• Take project management responsibility for current small to medium projects, with larger projects on the horizon including coordination of field investigations, subcontractors and reporting
• Possess strong data management skills, with ESdat and ArcGIS experience preferable
• Undertake preparation of sampling plans, site investigation/validation reports and management plans to a standard suitable for submission to regulatory authorities and site auditors
• Work with local, national and multi-national clients
• Lead winning bid and proposal efforts which contribute successfully to profit and engagement of junior staff
• Take an active role in managing client relationships, both within our business units and with key external clients
• Collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams and clients to ensure project integrity and success
• Mentor and develop junior consultants within the team 
• Active participation in industry bodies (i.e. ALGA, ALCA).

  Qualifications & Experience: 

First and foremost, you share our passion for improving quality of life. You have a highly regarded base of contaminated land and remediation experience in government and private sectors and come to us with:

• Tertiary qualifications in environmental (or other relevant) engineering, geology/hydrogeology or environmental science