Senior Consultant (Contaminated Land/ Geochemistry/ Environmental Geology)

SUMMARY:
Senior Consultant (Contaminated Land/ Geochemistry/ Environmental Geology)
 
A vacancy for a Senior Consultant has become available in our Johannesburg office.  Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to fill the vacancy. Suitable candidates should have experience in contaminated land, geology environmental geology and/or geochemistry consulting related to contamination management, especially with respect to petroleum hydrocarbons, mining and remediation processes. The successful candidate will report to the discipline Partner or designated Principal Consultant.

POSITION INFO:

Job Description:

The candidate will be required to ensure technical delivery of projects, including risk and quality management. The candidate should have experience in development of technical documents (reports) for clients throughout various project execution phases (pre-feasibility, feasibility, site assessment, remediation, and decommissioning/closure).

The candidate is expected to maintain, build, and further develop client relationships as part of project delivery and business development. As such, the candidate is expected to:

• Create own work.
• Be approached directly by previous clients to accept new projects.
• Begin developing a client base of their own and strive to create enough work to keep themselves and juniors busy.

• Manage contamination/remediation and geochemistry projects
• Compile proposals and reports
• Coordinate project schedules
• Independently undertake site assessments/field work
• Manage budgets
• Appoint and manage sub-contractors
• Develop and sustain new business and client relationships and
• Supervise and mentor junior colleagues.

• Excellent land contamination/geology/chemistry/industrial waste & mine residue characterisation and management/pollution source identification and control knowledge
• Excellent core logging and sampling skills (soil and groundwater)
• Ability to work in a dynamic consulting environment
• Self-starter and committed team player
• Demonstrate growing ability to create new work for self and others
• Be alert to market developments and opportunity for new work
• Excellent reporting, communication and presentation skills and
• Analytical and integrative skills across diverse sectors.

• Honours or higher in Geology or Environmental Geology or Hydrogeology or Chemistry or Geochemistry or higher / other relevant degree
• Pr.Sci.Nat Registration
• 8 to 12 years’ relevant experience
• Valid driver’s licence and own transport and
• Willingness to travel within and outside South Africa.

• Pay above-average packages for good performance and monitoring the remuneration structure in each relevant market so that we don’t fall behind
• Accommodate individual preferences for work assignments and schedules as far as possible and
• Support an open-door policy. Where employees feel they have difficulty in discussing concerns with their seniors, they have direct access to any Partner, Member of the Human Resources Committee or the Human Resources Manager, and ultimately the Managing Director.