Responsibilities
* Lead and support delivery of high-quality soil and agriculture consultancy and advisory services to both internal and external clients
* Comply with internal business management procedures and promote a strong health and safety culture
* Oversee plan, schedule and organise soil surveys using combinations of internal and external soil surveyors ensuring necessary resources, budgets and controls are in place to meet programme and budget requirements
* Organise, lead and carry out soil surveys, including augering and excavation using hand tools
* Undertake the analysis, evaluation, interpretation and presentation of soils data, including preparing reports and management plans
* Support development of technically robust reports and soil management plans, including leading and supporting production of soils, agriculture and/or land use chapters for environmental statements as author or technical checker of project deliverables, ensuring high quality outputs
* Support the continued development of our technical capabilities by keeping abreast of developments in soil and land management, including developments in soil health and carbon sequestration
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Qualifications
* Degree (or equivalent) in environmental science, ideally including soil science (additional soil expertise may have been acquired post qualification)
* Membership of the British Society of Soil Science and/or Institute of Agricultural Engineers
* Experience of leading and managing soil surveys, ideally for agricultural land classification
* Travel/overnight stays required
* Understanding of soil chemical and physical properties and analysis for specifying soil and land suitability for re-use
* Experience in scoping and pricing work opportunities, managing projects, project budgets and leading stakeholder discussions
* Experience reviewing technical work and supporting wider team members
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At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, programme and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world. We’re one global team driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.
As a Principal Soil and Agriculture Consultant you will join a dynamic Nature team in Cambridge or Leeds (or other UK offices) and benefit from our flexible hybrid working model. Our projects span power and renewables, infrastructure, restoration and environmental policy sectors, collaborating with forestry, arboriculture, landscaping, GIS, engineering, sustainability and drainage disciplines. Recent projects have included several of the largest solar farms in the UK, infrastructure and residential developments, and electricity network upgrades including the Great Grid Partnership. In this role you may combine field soil surveys with report writing and management planning, within a supportive mentoring and coaching framework.
Become part of our land sector business within the Nature business unit. Nature boasts around 230 professional experts, including national and global leaders across the UK and beyond, where soils and land management provide a foundation for all terrestrial ecosystem work. Soils-led consultancy supports habitat creation, ecosystem restoration, enhancement, and management. At AECOM, you’ll thrive in an inclusive and forward-thinking environment where your contributions are valued.
You’ll also enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days are just some of the perks we offer.
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