Bridgewater Consultancy UK Ltd
Senior Geoenvironmental Engineer
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About the Company
The employer is an established environmental and geotechnical consultancy providing specialist advice across contaminated land, ground investigation, geotechnical engineering, and environmental risk. The business supports clients through the full project lifecycle, from early-stage due diligence and desk studies through to intrusive investigation, risk assessment, remediation strategy, validation, and project completion. The consultancy offers a practical and technically focused working environment, with opportunities to develop across both site-based and office-based project delivery.
About the Role
As Senior Geo-Environmental Engineer, the successful candidate will manage and deliver geo-environmental projects involving desk studies, site investigation, environmental sampling, risk assessment, reporting, and remediation support. The role will include both technical delivery and project coordination, with regular liaison between clients, subcontractors, laboratories, regulators, and internal project teams. Applicants should demonstrate strong UK project experience, excellent report-writing ability, and the confidence to manage multiple projects to programme, budget, and quality standards.
Responsibilities
Project Delivery
- Manage and deliver geo-environmental and contaminated land projects
- Support projects from initial enquiry through to completion
- Prepare project scopes, programmes, and technical delivery plans
- Coordinate site works, subcontractors, laboratories, and internal resources
- Monitor project progress, deadlines, budgets, and deliverables
- Maintain clear communication with clients and project teams
- Ensure work is delivered safely, accurately, and commercially
- Support the successful delivery of projects across a varied UK portfolio
Site Investigation and Fieldwork
- Plan and supervise Phase 2 ground investigations
- Oversee intrusive investigation works including trial pits, window sampling, and boreholes
- Undertake soil, groundwater, surface water, and ground-gas sampling
- Prepare accurate site records, logs, and monitoring data
- Coordinate laboratory testing schedules
- Review site investigation outputs and identify technical concerns
- Liaise with drilling teams, contractors, laboratories, and project managers
- Ensure fieldwork is completed in accordance with project specifications and health and safety requirements
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Geo-Environmental Reporting
- Prepare Phase 1 desk studies and preliminary risk assessments
- Prepare Phase 2 ground investigation and geo-environmental assessment reports
- Develop conceptual site models
- Interpret soil, groundwater, gas, and environmental laboratory data
- Undertake contaminated land risk assessments
- Support human health, controlled waters, and ground-gas risk assessment work
- Prepare clear technical conclusions and practical recommendations
- Ensure reports are accurate, commercially focused, and issued to agreed deadlines
Remediation and Validation
- Support the preparation of remediation strategies
- Assist with verification and validation reporting
- Provide technical input during remediation and construction-stage works
- Liaise with contractors, clients, and regulators where required
- Support planning-condition discharge and environmental compliance requirements
- Help clients manage environmental risks in a practical and cost-effective way
Client and Stakeholder Liaison
- Act as a key point of contact for clients on assigned projects
- Attend project meetings, site meetings, and technical discussions
- Liaise with local authorities, regulators, contractors, and consultants
- Communicate technical findings clearly and professionally
- Support strong client relationships through reliable project delivery
- Identify opportunities to provide additional technical support where appropriate
Team Support and Mentoring
- Provide technical guidance to junior engineers and consultants
- Review site records, data, and draft reporting where required
- Support the development of junior team members
- Share technical knowledge across the geo-environmental team
- Contribute to a collaborative and professional working culture
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Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years' UK geo-environmental or environmental engineering experience
- Proven UK project experience is required
- Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK
- Degree in Environmental Science, Geology, Engineering Geology, Environmental Engineering, Geoscience, or a related discipline
- Experience preparing Phase 1 desk studies and Phase 2 geo-environmental reports
- Experience supervising ground investigations and environmental sampling
- Good understanding of contaminated land assessment
- Ability to develop conceptual site models
- Experience interpreting soil, groundwater, gas, and laboratory data
- Knowledge of remediation strategies, verification, and validation reporting
- Strong report-writing skills with excellent attention to detail
- Good project delivery and organizational skills
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills
- Full UK driving license
Required Skills
- Experience preparing remediation strategies and validation reports
- Knowledge of human health and controlled waters risk assessment
- Experience with ground-gas assessment and monitoring
- Familiarity with CL:AIRE, DoWCoP, and relevant contaminated land guidance
- Experience working on residential, commercial, industrial, or infrastructure schemes
- Experience mentoring junior engineers or graduates
- Membership of a relevant professional body
- Working towards Chartered status
- Experience supporting fee proposals or tender submissions
Pay range and compensation package
- Competitive overall package
- Company pension scheme
- Medical cover
- 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
- Professional subscriptions paid
- Funded educational courses and professional development support
- Pool car available for business use
- Varied UK project portfolio
- Supportive consultancy environment
- Opportunity to develop technical, client-facing, and project delivery skills
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