Sweco
Principal Consultant (Land Quality)
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We are currently looking for a Principal Land Quality Consultant who is highly motivated, adaptable, and strategic to join our growing Land Quality team within our Infrastructure and Environment Division.
What does the role involve?
As a Principal Land Quality Consultant, you will undertake predominantly office-based work with some site-work requirements, supporting UK-wide delivery of land quality assessment and brownfield regeneration schemes for a range of public and private sector clients.
With a strong pipeline of work over the next year and beyond, now is an exciting time to join our growing team in the UK!
If you want to be part of a company who are just the right size to provide our clients with a personal, attentive, and engaged service and large enough to provide a diverse and exciting workload, this job is for you.
Typical Duties Will Include
- Providing consultancy services in relation to geo-environmental assessments
- Preparing desk study, site investigation, risk assessment, and validation reports.
- Site supervision and management during complex site investigations, remediation, demolition, and construction programmes as required, including liaison with internal/external clients and sub-contractors.
- Acting as project manager on projects of varying sizes and complexities.
- Leading/assisting in the production of proposals/bids.
- Developing and enhancing new and existing internal and external client relationships.
- Preparing drawings and well-written, clear, accurate, and well-presented reports.
- Reviewing drawings, reports, and site documentation.
- Acting as a mentor to junior employees.
What do you need to be successful in the role?
- Qualified to degree level, preferably to MSc level in a relevant technical subject.
- Chartered with an appropriate professional body.
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of best practice guidance, regulation, and legislation in contaminated land.
- Applied knowledge and understanding of Construction Design and Management (CDM) regulations.
- Proven experience in facilitating, delivering, and managing site visits, investigations, and/or remediation works in line with the highest health, safety, and environmental standards.
- Track record in design, supervision, and management of site investigation works, including experience in a variety of techniques, good site management, supervision of contractors, liaison with stakeholders, soil logging, chemical and geotechnical sampling and analysis, gas and groundwater monitoring.
- Demonstrated experience in collecting, managing, analysing, and interpreting data.
- Highly experienced in technical report writing, including Phase 1 desk studies, factual and interpretative ground investigations, qualitative and quantitative risk assessment, remediation option appraisals, and verification reports.
- Experience of reviewing reports and mentoring others.
- Experience of managing deliverables on land regeneration frameworks, i.e., gas and electrical infrastructure/utility clients, is desirable.
- Full driving licence.
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What’s in it for you?
You will work with experienced land quality consultants who share a passion for working together with our clients to deliver technical excellence.
Join us, and grow your career in an inclusive, friendly, and flexible working environment where colleagues are encouraged and supported in their growth and development, and your work as a land quality consultant helps transform society.
We hire for potential, not just a checklist. If you believe you have the passion and transferable skills to succeed, are keen to join a business with genuine opportunities for career progression, then we’d love to hear from you, even if your CV doesn't perfectly match the description.
Let’s transform society together at Sweco!
Employee Benefits
- Flexible and hybrid working (Flexworks Policy)
- Competitive pension contribution
- Life Assurance
- Private Medical Insurance
- Company car or car allowance
- Discretionary Annual Bonus Scheme
- Payment of two relevant professional subscriptions
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to purchase up to 5 additional days per year)
- Cycle2Work Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme (wellbeing, mental health, financial, and work advice)
- Employee discounts via Sweco Benefit Select (Faircare)
- Salary Sacrifice Electric Vehicle Scheme
- We plant a tree for all new starters!
About Us
Transforming society together, we're planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future.
Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding, and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation, and make societies more sustainable.
We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.
Sweco is committed to enabling all its colleagues to achieve a great balance between work and their other priorities, such as caring responsibilities, leisure activities, further learning, or other interests. We offer flexible start and finish times, part-time, and hybrid working options so that you can flex your hours around your day-to-day needs.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
It’s important to us that all our colleagues thrive at work - we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects the contribution individuals can bring to Sweco. We aim to promote equality, inclusivity, and diversity for everyone.
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Here at Sweco, we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, or maternity/paternity.
We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant to ensure those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly. To find out more The Armed Forces Covenant - Our Commitments | Sweco UK.
We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer, and will interview applicants covered by the Equality Act 2010 that opt into the guaranteed interview scheme on the application form and meet the minimum criteria for the role.
If I have a disability, can I get help (e.g., “reasonable adjustments”) with the application process?
If you’re an applicant with a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability or unable to use the online application system and need an alternative method for applying, please contact GB_Function-HR-Resourcing@sweco.co.uk for assistance.
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- The position title
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Upon receipt of this information, we’ll respond to you promptly to obtain more information about your request.
Please note: we reserve the right to close vacancies before the advertised closing date.
Sweco UK&I have an internal resourcing team who are responsible for all recruiting activity. We have a Preferred Supplier List of trusted agencies who we work with on those “hard to fill” roles.
We have defined processes for recruitment applications, and it is company policy not to accept speculative CVs. Any speculative CVs received into the business (whether to a manager or member of the resourcing team) will become the property of Sweco, and the agency will not be eligible for an introductory fee.
Our Preferred Supplier List was reviewed in November 2025, and we are not looking to add any additional agencies. We’ll be reviewing the PSL again at the end of 2026, and non-compliance with the above statements could be detrimental to you having the opportunity to be included.
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