Environmental Scientist
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Environmental Scientist 8851 Permanent Contract 37 hours per week 31537 to 33699 per annum (Scale G) County Hall Norwich
Norfolk County Council is looking to appoint a hydrogeologist to join its Closed Landfill Team. This team is responsible for the management of 152 closed landfill sites of which 30 are currently monitored and 7 have Environmental Permits.
In this varied role you will be analysing site data and writing reports on groundwater surface water and the leachate source of the closed landfill sites for which the County Council has responsibility working closely with the Senior Environmental Scientist to ensure compliance with environmental permits and management strategies. You will additionally provide wider support within the Closed Landfill Team and will be working alongside those responsible for the engineering leachate and gas aspects of landfill management.
You will collate interpret and distribute monitoring data compile conceptual site models and update the GIS database. Duties also include undertaking environmental assessments and groundwater modelling site surveys and groundwater analysis.
To be considered for the role you will possess an Environmental Science Earth Science or Geology degree at a minimum ideally with experience in hydrogeology or groundwater. You will be IT literate with excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong working relationships. Full drivers licence.
The working environment at Norfolk County Council is flexible with a focus on life-work balance and smarter working arrangements tailored to the role and individual needs. The role involves travel to closed landfill sites working in all weather conditions and participating in an on-call rota for out-of-hours emergency response.
For an informal discussion please contact Victoria Gibson Landfill Strategy Manager on or email
These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:
- Competitive salary
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
- Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time part time remote and hybrid working dependent on your job role and business need.
- Financial benefits such as:
- Norfolk Rewardsour employee discounts programme which helps yousave money on almost anything from everyday groceries and clothes to holidays new technology gym membership trips to the cinema and days out.
- A Blue Light cardfor Fire Service and Social Care Workers
- Relocation expenses (where applicable)
- An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
- Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution life assurance death in service payments and dependants pensions
- Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes
- Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)
- A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job
We want our people to be inspired and motivated to work well together make the most of our workspaces enjoy a healthy work-life balance and deliver excellent services to Norfolk and its people. Flexibility is built into the way we work with hybrid working a key feature formany roles. Our technology platform and equipment are first class enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We ask that you have in place good Broadband connectivity.
Before you apply we recommend reading the full Job description and person specification to help you demonstrate how you meet the criteria. You can also find information on ourTerms and Conditionshere.
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Redeployment closing date: 22 September 2025 23:59
All other applicants closing date: 29 September 2025 23:59
Employment Type
Full-Time
