Senior Environmental Scientist

1 week ago

Auckland City, New Zealand AECOM Full time

**Company Description** Start here. Grow here.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

**Leading the change toward a sustainable and equitable future.**

Our environmental practice helps industries and governments fulfill their responsibilities to the people they support, as well as the planet that support us all. We provide advisory and technical services to enable you to achieve compliance, manage impacts and reduce or even eliminate risks.

Our services help clients anticipate and manage the environmental impact at each stage of the project: planning and obtaining permits for new facilities; decommissioning, clean-up and closure of contaminates sites and surplus operations facilities; restoration for reuse; addressing critical climate - change issues; protection or restoration of habitats and water quality and the preservation of culture resource.

We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.**
Our Environment team helps private and public sector clients in New Zealand and around the world, deliver for their stakeholders while achieving compliance, promoting resilience and reducing, or eliminating, impacts and risks to our communities and our natural environment. We’re listening to clients and the communities we serve to improve lives and livelihoods, and to create sustainable legacies for generations to come.

**What will a day in this role look like?**
- Planning, organising, executing, and reporting on contaminated site investigations for projects of varying size and complexity for clients across different industries.
- Preparing reports, participating in field work, liaising with subcontractors, communicating with clients, preparing tenders, and promoting innovative solutions for clients.
- Undertaking project management responsibilities such us invoicing, financial tracking and client delivery.

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, engineering, geology, or earth science
- A minimum of 5 years contaminated land experience within a consultancy, council, or similar environment
- Demonstrated experience in contaminated land management, environmental site assessments (preliminary and detailed site investigations) and remediation
- Strong field skills including experience sampling and monitoring a variety of media, including soil, groundwater, surface water, sediment, soil vapour, indoor air, including the willingness to travel and undertake fieldwork in cities and rural locations across New Zealand
- Experience logging soil bores and installing groundwater monitoring wells via a variety of drilling methods
- Ability to supervise and oversee field teams and subcontractors
- Strong report writing skills, including the ability to evaluate chemical and physio-chemical parameters, evaluate nature and extent of contamination, and draw conclusions
- Ability to grasp new concepts quickly, be adaptable and flexible, and contribute individually and within a team environment to the success of our projects
- A valid full drivers’ licence is essential

**Additional Information**

**About AECOM**

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle - from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public

**Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity**

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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