Senior Environmental Scientist

**Senior Environmental Scientist: Tauranga
- Central North Island**
Our National Environment Group at GHD is continuing to grow with career defining, landmark projects currently being undertaken both in New Zealand and across the Pacific. Part of this success has seen our Tauranga and Hamilton offices quickly grow under a vibrant and inclusive team culture & leadership, with high staff retention and wellbeing focus.

We place a high-value on passion & drive for success, so are presenting this role as an opportunity for a person in the Tauranga and/or Waikato region looking to build their professional profile within a larger team of national specialists, passionate about making a meaningful difference in our communities.

**Working with the client, business and technical leaders, this position offers great variety of projects **and will see you involved in**:

- Supporting the development and implementation of business plans for the growth of environmental services in the Tauranga and Waikato region as well as supporting the wider National Environment and Pacific business.
- Promoting GHD’s established environmental technical capacity to clients, driving & coordinating delivery through our national business.
- Planning and owning the delivery of environmental outcomes & solutions within our infrastructure projects.
- Providing creative solutions to fit the needs of our clients and communities.
- Making technical decisions, preparing technical reports, management plans and strategies.
- Leading and contributing to the preparation of proposals and bids for projects.
- Working within a highly coordinated national team, mentoring less experienced team members.
- Work with industry groups and various stakeholders to continue to develop GHDs engagement in the region.

**What you will bring to the team**:

- Confidence, integrity and passion to represent GHD in Tauranga andWaikato, supporting our client relations management program and project delivery.
- Ideally a specialist skill in Contaminated Land, Hydrology, Hydrogeology or Water Sciences.
- Sound knowledge of environmental challenges facing regional communities and New Zealand with view of how excellent technical assessment and planning can be implemented to provide positive, successful outcomes to communities.
- Have excellent communication and client management skills.
- Demonstrated professional judgement and commercial acumen, including identifying, assessing, evaluating and solving problems to brief and budget.
- Robust written and verbal skills, with the ability to communicate complex issues concisely.
- An interest in coaching and mentoring to technically strengthen the team capabilities.
- Relevant tertiary qualification.

**What's in it for you**:

- Health insurances paid for by GHD (Life, Trauma and Income protection).
- Up to 20 days extra leave with our purchase leave scheme.
- Daily interaction with high performing teams.
- Professional development and ongoing training.
- Competitive remuneration.
- Flexible working arrangements for work-life balance.
- Opportunities to learn from our industry experts and technical gurus across APAC.
- A highly supportive and collaborative team environment.
- We will set you up for success with the latest hardware, tools and tech.

**Interested?**
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