Description:
We are currently looking for an Analyst Consultant to join our Water team. Much of our work is for water companies but also covers wider infrastructure projects for developers and support for other commercial organisations, where high quality data capture and analysis is essential to assess inform environmental assessments.
You will form part of the team supporting our consultants working across a variety of projects in our water, ecology and environmental impact assessment teams. There is also the opportunity to work with other parts of our business with the aim of helping to develop a portfolio of projects where our water related expertise can complement other environmental assessments.
Key Responsibilities
- Fieldwork support for aquatic, terrestrial and ground environmental surveys
- Data collection through site surveys and monitoring programmes.
- Data processing, analysis, interpretation and visualisation using Excel and GIS.
- Desk studies, literature reviews, option appraisals, impact assessment and reporting.
- Project co-ordination and management.
Key Competencies And Experience
- Bachelors (2.1 or above) and ideally a post graduate degree in a relevant subject.
- Understanding environmental sciences and/or water quality.
- Thorough experience of using Excel and GIS packages (such as ArcGIS and QGIS).
- Experience of reviewing and interpreting datasets, with excellent analytical skills.
- Effective report writing skills.
- Ability to fault find and problem solve in challenging environments.
- Effective time management skills.
- Willingness to learn from contributing to a broad range of fieldwork and office-based tasks.
- A full UK driver’s licence.
Skills And Behaviours
- Strong desire to work outside and complete sometimes physically challenging tasks.
- Excellent team working.
- A good degree of physical fitness.
- Strong problem solving skills and mental fortitude.
- Ambitious, enthusiastic and self-motivated to thrive in this busy and demanding environment.
- Strong communication skills and a close attention to detail.
- Keenness to learn and be able to act quickly and flexibly across projects.
- Excellent report writing.
- Good IT skills commonly used software, e.g. Microsoft Office, internet, email and GIS.
- Self-organized with ability to manage own workload effectively.