Role: Senior Water Quality Consultant
Location: Wokingham
Salary: Up to £40,000 p/a depending on experience + company car or car allowance
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
 
Are you a Water Quality Consultant looking for your next challenge within a leading Water & Ecology team?
 
Reporting to the Water Quality Manager, you will be supporting the coordination and delivery of routine and ad hoc water quality monitoring programmes and overseeing field-based sampling and collection of environmental samples for laboratory analysis.
 
You will also be supporting the wider team to deliver a range of ecological projects, including field surveys and reporting duties, as well as responding to pollution incidents as and when needed.
 
The ideal candidate will be based within 3 hours of Wokingham as projects are based across the Midlands and the South of England.
 
Weekly contractual hours are 35 per week, with daily hours being 9am - 5pm, 5 days per week, with a 1 hour lunch break each day.
 
 
Skills:
·Hold a degree in a relevant science-related discipline;
·Understanding of water chemistry;
·Awareness of the available water pollution remediation techniques;
·Knowledgeable & experienced in scientific fieldwork.
·A willingness to travel throughout the UK and Ireland, to work away and to work long days when required;
·Knowledge & experience of biological water quality indicators such as aquatic macroinvertebrate and/or fisheries surveys;
·Understanding of the role of regulators such as the Environment Agency;
·An understanding of the role of laboratory analysis in environmental monitoring
·A full and clean UK Driver's License is essential.
 
What they offer:
·25 days' annual leave + Bank Holidays;
·Company Pension Scheme (5% employee contribution, 4% employer contribution);
·Company vehicle or car allowance (employees' car must be comply with policy to qualify);
·Flexible working;
·Life assurance scheme;
·Refer a friend scheme;
·Employee assistance programme (with access to GP appointments, physio appointments and mental health support).
 
 
Apply today and if successful, I will be in touch. You can contact me at libby.horner@carringtonwest.com / 02394 314919.
 
Due to the volume of applicants, we may only be able to respond to applicants who are to be progressed to the next stage. If you do not hear from us, unfortunately it means your application hasn't been successful.
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