Continuation of technical engineering-related roles and consulting with clients.

Continuation of management duties and engineering related roles. I was promoted to Principal Geo-environmental Engineer following my success as team leader and was awarded Chartered Scientist (CSci) status by the Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES).

I manage a team of six staff overseeing and supporting their career development alongside my typical engineering roles such as site investigation works and interpretative report writing. My main responsibilities include, devising annual team budgets, recruitment, annual appraisals, H&S audits, technical report reviewing of quotations, factual reports and Phase 1 Desk Studies, ensuring the team are happy in their roles, meet monthly budgets and encourage growth for the wider business.

I was awarded a senior position based on my success with helping start and run the office in Cambridge. In addition, I was nominated/shortlisted and a finalist for the Brownfield Briefing Awards 2019: Best Young Brownfield Professional. Since its opening, the office has grown from two members to five and as a result, overtime, I have quickly developed management and leadership skills which assisted with my current team leader to help run the team. Daily role includes; tendering for projects, project management, developing a client base for future work for the team, sorting out invoices/financing for the Cambridgeshire office, mentoring and training junior members, alongside typical engineering roles such as site investigation works and interpretative report writing.During the lockdown in March 2020, I continued working whilst other staff in the department were furloughed. During this time, I was responsible for covering all site works, reporting and managing all projects along with aid from the current team leader which was a similar scenario to when the Cambridge office first started.I am currently undergoing a ‘handover period’ between the current team leader and myself. This will involve the introduction of more responsibility and obtaining the relevant training ready to be the new team leader for the Cambridge office (in April 2021). This will be alongside typical engineering roles previously mentioned.

In this role at RSK I took on more responsibility; this involved managing larger, more valuable projects, delegation to junior members of staff and overseeing and being part of all sectors of a project such as tendering, site works, report writing, project management, client liaison and invoicing.I manage and undertake various site works of a larger scale with more complex attributes and difficult logistics. I conduct Phase I reports (Preliminary Risk Assessment) and Phase II ( Geo-environmental Site Investigation) reports independently including in depth Generic Quantitative Risk Assessments (GQRA’s) for contaminated sites along with advising clients of remedial strategies, recommendations with respect to foundations and infrastructure design for simple to adverse ground conditions (including spread and pile foundations, desiccation assessments) whilst referencing relevant techniques and guidance.

This was my first professional role following graduation. In this role I took the skills acquired from university and applied them in a working environment. Skills obtained included: - Shadowing site works, leading to my own independent site work- Supervising intrusive works - trial pitting, window sampling, cable percussive boreholes and CFA's- Soils and rock logging to BS 5930:1999 and CIRIA C574- Walkover surveys- Service clearance (CAT and Genny equipment)- Groundwater and soil sampling- Topsoil validation - Geotechnical in-situ testing- Groundwater and ground gas monitoring- Report writing with aid – Phase I and Phase II - Conceptual Site Models (CSM)- GQRA’s - Foundation Design- Risk Assessment and Method Statements (RAMS)- Client and stakeholder liaison- Management on small projects