Senior Contaminated Lands Consultant - Adelaide - Hiring Fast

When you join us at Tonkin, you become part of a team who thrive on delivering exceptional outcomes that put people and our community first.

Founded in 1955, Tonkin is on a strong, sustained growth journey, with a creative and progressive national team working at nine offices across Australia. Proudly employee-owned, we provide imaginative and dependable engineering, environment, urban development and construction solutions to our clients in the public and private sectors. With expertise that is characterised by diversity and industry excellence, Tonkin prides itself on being a national leader in the markets of water, waste, transport, natural resources management, buildings, public works and land development.

We are looking for a technically experienced contaminated lands consultant to join our growing environment and waste national team. The role may be based in our Adelaide or Sydney office. As a senior team member, you will act as a project lead for key programs of work and support the discipline principal in developing technical and commercial proposals for our valued clients.

As a part of this role, you will be:

• Scoping and costing work through the development of proposals as required.
• Coordinating field programs including premobilisation and safety planning.
• Developing Sampling and Analysis Quality Plans.
• Project leading a variety of large and small fieldwork campaigns including soil, groundwater, surface water and soil vapour investigations.
• Providing coaching and mentoring to graduate and junior team members.
• Providing high quality analysis and constructive review of junior team members reporting to ASC NEPM requirements.
• Developing reports to exceptional technical and editorial standard and working collaboratively with the team to meet client expectations.

To be successful in this position you will have:

• Degree in a relevant science discipline (geology, hydrogeology, environmental science, soil science) or environmental engineering.
• Previous consulting experience (6+ years) within the contaminated land field (additional experience in environmental management or impact assessment will be highly regarded).
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Be adept at building and maintaining effective working relationships with clients, project teams, disciplines, and business units
• Exceptional project management and collaboration skills
• Experience in management of subcontractors and client expectations
• A passion to train and mentor junior staff
• Experience in data management software (ESDAT) and preparation of environmental reports
• Experience in working with and a knowledge of other state legislation and guidelines will be advantageous.
• Experience in scoping and managing projects from small PSI’s through to large scale DSIs and remediation projects.
• Experience in sampling and assessing all media including soil vapour.
• Full Drivers License issued by an Australian state or territory
• Authorisation to work full-time in Australia

Job location:

This role can be based at either of Tonkin's state-of-the-art head offices in Adelaide's CBD or Sydney CBD, flexible/work-from-home arrangements may also be possible.

The Tonkin difference

We know people perform at their best when they enjoy coming to work.

At Tonkin we offer you the opportunity to work with leading industry experts in a genuinely supportive and caring environment. We provide flexibility because we know work-life balance is key. Our high-performing teams are underpinned by trust; empowering you to build your skills, progress your career quickly and work the way that is best for you.

Good people. Challenging projects. Caring environment. That’s Tonkin.

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For further information about Tonkin and to view our other vacancies, please visit:

https://www.tonkin.com.au/careers

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For this position, Tonkin will only consider applications submitted directly by candidates, we will not accept or consider any applications from recruiters or recruitment agencies for this position unless requested.