Site Operative
Company: STM Environmental Consultants Ltd
Work Location: London TW2 6RS
Work arrangement: Onsite
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
About Us
STM Environmental Consultants Ltd is an independent company offering focused environmental consulting services to the public and private sector.
We are passionate about protecting the environment but recognise that development needs to happen.
Our mission is to deliver practical and innovative solutions that enable our clients to achieve their objectives in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible whilst at the same time protecting or even enhancing the environment.
We are looking for a Field Technician/Site Operative/Driller to assist in undertaking our environmental and geotechnical site investigations.
Main Responsibilities
- Organising and packing relevant equipment required for each day's work.
- Assisting in operating a tracked windowless sampling drilling rig (first as a second man, with scope to progress to lead driller), mini excavator, breakers and other equipment.
- Collecting soil samples for laboratory analysis.
- Conducting groundwater and ground gas monitoring visits.
- Keeping clear and detailed records (borehole logs, notes and taking site investigation photos) of all field data collected on each site.
- Maintaining/cleaning the drilling rig and other equipment to ensure that it operates efficiently when required.
- Maintaining our lockup storage units; including tidying up and conducting inventories of materials/equipment.
- Maintaining/cleaning company vehicles to a high standard.
- Having a good awareness of on-site health and safety so as to ensure that all works are completed safely and efficiently.
- Any other duties consistent with the job description that may be required from time to time.
Experience
- Candidates with experience of undertaking site investigations would be preferred, but this is not essential.
Skill Requirements
- Fit motivated individual who likes to work outdoors
- Excellent communicator, independent, effective, well organized, teamworker, numerate, detail-conscious, excellent report writer
- Ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced environment and balance multiple priorities
- Communicative, organized, flexible and committed
- The position may also involve rare travel and nights away from home
Qualifications
- The position will require daily driving of company vehicles, so a clean driving licence is essential
- Excellent verbal and written English
- Numerate and literate, able to work on own initiative and to communicate very clearly.
- Strong, healthy individual who enjoys physical outdoors work.
- Good team player with a can-do attitude.
Benefits
- Flexible working schedule
- Overtime eligible
- Training and career progression opportunities
