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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">About the role<br><br></span></p>\n<p>ORS’s Environmental team delivers high-quality, science-led solutions that help clients navigate complex environmental and regulatory challenges across Ireland.</p>\n<p>ORS is seeking an experienced Senior Geo-Environmental Scientist to join our Environmental Department in a strategically critical role. We are seeking an accomplished geo-environmental or hydrogeology professional who brings deep technical expertise, strong project and client leadership credentials, and the ambition to step into a future-focused leadership role. <br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Key Responsibilities</span> </p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in shaping the direction of the Environmental team, leading high-value, complex projects, mentoring the next generation of specialists. You will be working closely with senior management on strategy, capability development, and client growth.</p>\n<p>This role will evolve into a <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">key leadership position within the consultancy</span>, and will suit an ambitious and enthusiastic individual.</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>Technical &amp; Project Leadership<br><br></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide senior technical leadership across geo-environmental, hydrogeological, contaminated land, and water-related projects, ensuring robust, defensible, and proportionate solutions.</li>\n<li>Lead complex site-specific risk assessments, groundwater investigations, abstraction studies, and remediation strategies for brownfield and development sites.</li>\n<li>Take overall responsibility for the technical quality, programme delivery, resourcing, and financial performance of assigned projects.</li>\n<li>Oversee and contribute to high-quality technical reports, interpretative assessments, modelling outputs, and regulatory submissions.<br><br></li>\n</ul>\n<p>Groundwater &amp; Environmental Assessment<br><br></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lead and oversee groundwater abstraction feasibility studies, including desk studies, conceptual site models, and demand assessments.</li>\n<li>Specify, coordinate, and supervise field investigations, including reconnaissance, trial wells, pumping tests, and water quality sampling.</li>\n<li>Interpret pumping test data for confined and unconfined aquifer systems and assess yield, sustainability, and environmental impact.</li>\n<li>Support abstraction licence applications and environmental compliance documentation.</li>\n<li>Apply a strong understanding of Irish and EU environmental legislation, EIA processes, and regulatory frameworks.<br><br></li>\n</ul>\n<p>Leadership, Mentorship &amp; Strategic Growth<br><br></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Act as a senior mentor within the Environmental team, supporting and developing junior and mid-level staff through coaching, technical guidance, and quality assurance.</li>\n<li>Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams (ecologists, engineers, planners) to deliver integrated environmental solutions.</li>\n<li>Engage confidently with clients, regulators, and stakeholders, building trusted relationships and supporting repeat business.</li>\n<li>Contribute to the strategic development of the Environmental team, including service line growth, technical innovation, and best practice.</li>\n<li>Progressively assume greater leadership responsibility, with structured support and visibility at senior management level.</li>\n</ul>\n<p> </p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Essential Requirements </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">​</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bachelor’s degree in Earth Sciences, Geology, Environmental Science, Geochemistry, or a related discipline.</li>\n<li>A degree or postgraduate qualification in Hydrogeology is desirable but not essential.</li>\n<li>Significant professional experience in a senior technical and project leadership role within environmental consultancy or a related sector.</li>\n<li>Proven track record of successfully managing complex projects, budgets, programmes, and multidisciplinary teams.</li>\n<li>Strong experience in groundwater investigations, contaminated land assessment, and geo-environmental risk assessment.</li>\n<li>Practical experience with data analysis, conceptual modelling, and interpretation of groundwater and environmental datasets.</li>\n<li>Familiarity with GIS software (e.g. ArcGIS, QGIS) and relevant modelling tools.</li>\n<li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and authoritatively.</li>\n<li>Strong leadership mindset, commercial awareness, and a commitment to technical excellence and professional integrity.<br>​</li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">What We Can Offer You </span></p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>Being part of ORS means more than just a job, it means joining a company that invests in you and your ambitions with transparency, structure and support. </p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>We are delighted to offer a suite of benefits when you join ORS, which include: <br> </p>\n<ul>\n<li>Competitive salary </li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Performance-related bonus </li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Pension scheme with matching contributions </li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Remote-first hybrid model – use your home as a base and any of our office locations as you see fit </li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Work from abroad </li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Flexible working hours </li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Access to over 60 health disciplines through our Kara Connect Platform </li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Continuous Professional development (CPD) programme &amp; 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Our mission is simple but powerful: We endeavour to make the lives of our team, clients, partners and communities happier and better in the ways that really matter every single day. </p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>Don’t just take our word for it! ORS has won numerous awards, recognising our Great Place to Work culture. </p>\n<p> </p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner of the Engineering Consultancy of the Year at the Engineering Excellence Awards 2025 </li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner of the Graduate Programme of the Year at the Engineering Excellence Awards 2025 </li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner of the Best Company to Work For at the Irish Design &amp; Build Awards 2024 &amp; 2025 </li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner of the Best People Development of the Year at the Engineering Excellence Awards 2024 </li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner of the Recruitment &amp; Retention Strategy at the Workplace Excellence Awards 2024 </li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Great Place to Work certified consecutively since 2017 </li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Top 3 Company Best Workplaces in the medium-sized category at the Great Place to Work awards 2025 </li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Best Workplaces for Health &amp; Wellbeing 2025 Great Place to Work </li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Engineers Ireland CPD Accreditation since 20217 </li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Awarded for Hybrid Way of Working at the 2022 Great Place to Work Awards </li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Silver Accreditation through Investors in Diversity 2025 </li>\n</ul>\n<p> </p>\n<p>ORS is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive company culture. We foster a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects and supports their individual strengths and experiences. </p>\n<p> </p>",
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