Contaminated Land Consultant

Arup’s purpose, shared values and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 75 years, guiding how we shape a better world.

Arup is an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical specialists offering a broad range of professional services. Through our work, we make a positive difference in the world. Arup offers a multidisciplinary service aimed at developing policy, assessing impact, creative design and implementation, gaining regulatory approvals, reporting publicly, managing risk and controlling costs.

Arup’s contaminated land team form part of the Climate and Sustainability Services business, covering a range of environmental specialisms. The land quality team coordinate, manage and produce contaminated land assessments, working with a variety of technical disciplines on a wide range of different types of development. The team have expertise in the assessment of ground contamination, material and waste management, environmental permitting, due diligence and water quality.

The main aspect of the role will be working on a wide variety of projects (in terms of scale, value, location and sector) assessing the contaminative status and formulating cost-effective and pragmatic remediation solutions, liaising with regulators and satisfying planning requirements.

You will lead delivery of contaminated land assessments for projects at all levels. Clients will include private developers, public sector authorities and other organisations. You will be working in a multi-disciplinary environment alongside other environmental, planning, engineering and urban design specialists, and will work closely with technical disciplines (both internal and external to Arup) to deliver high quality environmental consultancy services in contaminated land and brownfield development.

You’ll be routinely office based, with some site work. This may include managing ground investigations including supporting junior staff, working with ground investigation contractors and liaising with client teams. There may be opportunities to work on short-term projects around the UK and internationally.

Typical activities will vary and may include the following:
Technical delivery of contaminated land assessments. Managing junior staff supporting the delivery of contaminated land assessments. Writing environmental reports including preparing ground conditions/contamination chapters in environmental statements. Project management activities including programming and budget control. Interfacing with multi-disciplinary project teams. Communicating and liaising with clients. Engaging and negotiating with stakeholders. Assisting with contaminated land team business development and marketing. Preparing bids and presentations.

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share, and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas.

You will have the opportunity do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to the members and to the clients and communities we serve.

The individual will require the following knowledge, skills and attributes:

• A good honours degree in a relevant subject. Member of a relevant institute (e.g. CIWEM, IES, Geological Society of London, RSC) and full Chartered status or working towards Chartered status.
• A clear understanding of all levels of contaminated land assessment from initial land acquisitions, through desk study, investigation and assessment to remediation and to final remediation verification is essential.
• Some wider technical expertise or at least a basic understanding, in some other areas of brownfield development would be expected. This could include waste classification, excavated materials management including the use of the DoWCoP, environmental permitting, and Environmental Impact Assessment.
• Knowledge of GIS software (preferably ArcGIS), strong complementary digital skills (including responsible use of AI) and CAD (desirable).
• Knowledge such as asbestos in soils, hydrogeology, DQRA, specific remediation…