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We’re seeking an experienced Principal Geo-Environmental Consultant to be based in our Dublin office. This is a fantastic opportunity to further your career within an established and successful company that has ESG, welfare and wellbeing of staff as core values. AECOM's Freedom to Grow policy allows flexible and hybrid work options combining working from home and office.

Want to further your career within one of the top environmental consultancies in Ireland and the UK? If so, this is the job for you. Contact us to find out more about this exciting opportunity and how our Freedom to Grow policy will enable you to achieve a rewarding work-life balance.

As a project leader, you can handle, with support from senior staff, technical and commercial aspects of various projects from start to finish. You know how to design and deliver solutions that meet the clients' needs and expectations. You can also communicate effectively with clients and staff, build and maintain strong relationships, and provide guidance and support to your team.

Here’s what you’ll do: 

• Conduct Assessments: Perform environmental assessments, including PSA, DSA, QRA, and CSM development, ensuring thorough and accurate evaluations.
• Oversee groundwater and surface water monitoring, providing critical data for project analysis and decision-making.
• Design Investigations: Lead the design and implementation of site investigations, ensuring comprehensive and effective examination of project sites.
• Implement Remediation: Develop, execute, and validate remediation projects, ensuring successful restoration and compliance with environmental standards.
• Manage Waste: Classify waste and oversee the management of excavated soils, ensuring environmentally responsible handling and disposal.

Our award-winning team is one of the largest contaminated land/remediation-focused teams in Ireland, serving a wide range of end markets and clients. Our experts provide one-stop access to services ranging from desk studies, site investigation, risk assessment, remediation (strategy development, design, implementation and validation), monitoring and close-out on a wide range of contracts.

We work for leading Irish and international clients on commissions of varying scale for both public sector bodies and high-profile private sector clients across the commercial development, aviation, rail, power, transportation, technology, chemical and pharmaceutical sectors.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? 

Here’s what we’re looking for: 

• Wide range of experience, knowledge and skills in contaminated land assessment and management
• Strong understanding of contaminated land assessment regulations and guidance
• Previous hands-on experience within field investigation, including site management, drilling supervision, collection of groundwater and ground gas samples, or the supervision of remediation activities.
• Track record of project delivery and client relationship building

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [email protected]. At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. 

If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you! 

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn: Alina Popescu. 

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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- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

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.