Senior or Principal Soils Scientist/Consultant

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

12/22/2024

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 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:

As part of a growing and agile business, our Soils and Sustainable Land Management team is looking for a Senior or Principal Soils Consultant with a broad range of EIA experience. You will work collaboratively with a range of technical specialists on a broad range of projects, lead and coordinate topic-specific input to Environmental Impacts Assessments and related deliverables, work closely with clients, develop new areas of business and mentor others in the team.

As part of our Environmental team, you’ll help improve quality of life. With your specialism in environmental management, or your technical or sustainability expertise, your work could involve protected species, pollution, surface water and materials management, air quality or noise. And in some of the world’s busiest and most beautiful locations.

We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Role accountabilities:

You’ll be instrumental in improving the understanding and sustainable management of soils and the impacts of land use change for a diverse range of projects including large scale energy and infrastructure projects, large-scale mixed-use development schemes for both private and public clients, public realm and masterplanning projects. We drive technical excellence in everything we do and promote a flexible and collaborative environment supported by digital innovation. You will play a key role in the successful delivery of major multidisciplinary development projects.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Leading on the coordination and delivery of soil and land use assessments as part of Environmental Impact Assessments of a wide range of projects
• Coordinating and leading soil and Agricultural Land Classification surveys
• Undertaking your own work to an excellent standard, and reviewing the work of others
• Working in partnership with other members of the Soils Team as well as the Impact Assessment Team and members of related discipline teams across the UK
• Proactively managing selected projects or components of projects, taking responsibility for resource allocation, managing subcontractors and quality assurance
• Lead and support tender proposal/ bids - working as part of a project winning team
• Providing soils and land use advice and support to clients, project managers and colleagues
• Engaging with consultees and stakeholders
• Developing outstanding reports - an ability to summarise and explain outcomes to non-technical audiences will be critical for this
• Managing projects, overseeing our performance on technical, quality, commercial, and health and safety
  
  

Qualifications & Experience:

• Experienced soil consultant/scientist with experience of Environmental Impact Assessment, preferably within a consultancy environment or with experience of multi-disciplinary working and broad sector experience.
• Experience of soil surveying, ideally including knowledge and experience of the Agricultural Land Classification system.
• Member of the British Society of Soil Science and Chartered/working towards chartership with an accredited Institution.
• Good knowledge of Environmental Impact Assessment and the planning process in relation to soils and land use
• Strong report writing, verbal and presentation skills with experience in reviewing the work of others to ensure quality
• Experience in multi-disciplinary working, with good project management and technical skills
• Experience in consulting and negotiating with planning authorities, regulators and stakeholders
• Commercial expertise, including forecasting, project management and quality assurance
• A valid UK driving license
• Desired: Knowledge and application experience of carbon accounting in relation to soils and land use
  
  

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.