Construction Environmental Monitoring Technician

Cawood Scientific is seeking a Construction Environmental Monitoring Technician for a permanent full-time role based in the West Midlands, UK. The technician will assist in on-site monitoring and sampling services for a long-term infrastructure project, ensuring compliance with British guidance and client requirements. Responsibilities include managing project methods, liaising with teams, ensuring safety, and conducting environmental monitoring. The position requires travel and working in various weather conditions.
This role is located in our business unit, Enitial, within the Cawood Scientific Field Services Division. Enitial, a division of Cawood Scientific, is the UK’s leading provider of independent field monitoring and sampling services. Our highly skilled team of 80 technicians acts as the ‘boots on the ground’ for customers throughout the UK, providing cost-effective on-site sampling, testing, and measuring of environmental conditions as well as checks on pollution levels. Our expertise in industrial and environmental monitoring, combined with our innovative control equipment, delivers a specialist service for customers looking for professional, reliable support. Our services are used to assist with permit and planning consent compliance, investigations for new development, and to support operational condition monitoring. Learn more about Enitial by clicking here. Job Description: Enitial is the UK’s leading provider of independent field monitoring and sampling services. Our highly skilled team of 80 technicians acts as the ‘boots on the ground’ for customers throughout the UK, providing cost-effective on-site monitoring and sampling services. Our expertise in industrial and environmental monitoring, combined with our innovative control equipment, delivers a specialist service for customers looking for professional, reliable support. Our services are used to assist with permit and planning consent compliance, investigations for new development, and to support operational condition monitoring. The Cawood Group have an exciting opportunity as Construction Environmental Monitoring Technician, on a permanent full-time basis based in the West Midlands. Working as part of a team, the successful candidates will be primarily involved in a prestigious, long term infrastructure project. Key Responsibilities: Assisting with the management of methods to be used on site and instigating new services aligned with promoting the Enitial brand. Leading projects and liaising with a Project Manager, Site Managers, Data Analyst and the Client to ensure projects are implemented positively, professionally and in line with British guidance or client requirements. Providing a reliable, efficient, and professional level of service to our clients Managing data accurately and in line with client / company requirements. Report data through to the Data Analysts timely and in the correct format. Having responsibility for keeping safety at the forefront of field works and being proactive ensuring accidents and near misses are always reported straightaway to the Project Manager and client in line with our company accreditation and policy. Liaising with laboratories and couriers ensuring samples taken in the field are always, to the best of your ability and compliant. Providing routine company admin through to central systems including expenses and vehicle checks on a monthly basis. Assisting with on-site training of new employees providing proactive support ensuring there onboarding into the company is friendly, engaging and inspiring. Conducting routine environmental monitoring and sampling in accordance with company protocols, quality assurance requirements and our client’s contract specifications. The role will require some travel and will be site based in sometimes challenging weather conditions. Skills, Qualifications and Experience: Ideally have a Minimum 2-years field-based environmental testing experience and knowledge or Specialist Project service-related experience Scientific degree (Environmental Science, Earth Sciences, etc) preferred, but not essential Have a Proven track record on communication and teamwork. Skills in Microsoft office Must have a Full UK Driving License CSCS is preferred (Must be willing to work towards) Cawood is the UK’s leading scientific group, recognised for its technical capability and value-added service to customers. We provide laboratory analysis to the agriculture, food and environmental sectors, as well as contract research to GLP standards to support the development of agrochemicals, biocides and other chemicals. Our field services team offers measurement and monitoring for water, construction and ecology across the UK. Cawood is the largest independent provider of analytical laboratory testing and sampling services for the land-based industries in the UK. With 15 sites around the country specialising in different types of analysis, we are always looking for skilled and talented individuals to join our teams. Our values of PRIDE underpin our approach: Partnership, Responsiveness, Innovation, Decency and Expertise. You can read about our values and how they make a difference to our people and our customers here. Our people make Cawood what it is. No matter how technically advanced and sophisticated our equipment, it is our people who keep our customers satisfied. Accuracy across a high number of tests and continually looking for ways to innovate and improve are key to our future. This is an exciting time to join Cawood. The business is growing and there are plenty of opportunities for people who want to work hard, have fun and be part of our success. We spend a lot of our lives at work, so it’s important to us to make Cawood a place our people enjoy working. Cawood is a flexible employer, offering flextime, overtime and time off in lieu to help colleagues manage their work in a way that suits them as well as the business. We believe in working together to find the best outcome for all and we foster a culture of friendliness and family within our teams. Why do people enjoy working at Cawood? Here’s what our colleagues say: “The people we work with are fun and supportive, even during the more difficult days” “The flexibility that is offered, especially when you have worked in other laboratory environments” “The GOAL, the growth plans and opportunities for development in a range of skills” “The new leadership team and their ambition to invest in people” This year’s People Plan builds upon this fun, flexible and family feel to make Cawood one of the best places to work. Russell Vaughan Russell joined Cawood shortly after leaving university in our Mambo-Tox laboratory and has worked on the majority of our studies, from basic lab experiments to full-sized field studies. He has been integral to new method development over his many years with the company, and is a key contributor to our reputation for clear, accurate reporting that can go straight into a dossier. After taking time out to complete his PhD in plant molecular biology, he returned to the business in 2005 and now leads our team of study directors at Mambo-Tox. Russell enjoys working at Cawood because of our excellent team of people and our mission to support agriculture in meeting the needs of society whilst reducing its environmental impact. Sean Stevenson Sean joined Cawood as a biochemistry graduate to work in the NRM soil analysis laboratory. Over the last 19 years he has worked his way up through sales and business development roles and is now Divisional Managing Director for Cawood Agriculture. Sean is responsible for creating commercial strategies which support and accelerate our growth. Having worked at all the different levels in the company, Sean is a firm believer in making the business a place where people can thrive. At the heart of Cawood is NRM, the UK’s leading agricultural laboratory, founded in 1990. The Cawood group was formed in 2006 with the acquisition of the animal feed testing business, Sciantec. Since then, we have grown rapidly through our strong relationships with customers, our ongoing investment in people and equipment, and the acquisition of businesses that complement or expand our services. This development has allowed us to increase our range of services and extend our reach into global markets. In 2021, Cawood was acquired by US corporation Ensign-Bickford Industries (EBI), becoming a member of its Agriculture and Environmental Diagnostics Group. Watch the video below to learn more about EBI.