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SalaryRSK Response is looking for an Environmental Incident Technician to join our growing team in Helsby, UK. This is a full-time, permanent position.
This role will require frequent travel, occasional stays away from home and working on an ‘On-Call’ rota basis.
Responsibilities:
The types of activities that the successful candidate could expect to be involved with include:
- Development and adherence to specific and point of work health & safety risk assessments
- Rapid response to environmental incidents in a variety of urban and rural settings
- Pro-active assessment of pollution risks to the environment
- Application of a variety of in-situ techniques for containing and recovering oils or other contaminants of concern
- Environmental monitoring and sampling activities
Person specification:
- A strong focus on safety
- Punctual, reliable and honest
- Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite
- Excellent communication skills with co-workers, public and clients
- Pro-active and hands on approach to site activities
- Full clean UK driving licence
- Ability to work independently
- Happy to work across the UK from time to time to suit business needs
- Willingness to undertake additional training as business requirements dictate
Successful candidates will preferably have experience in responding to and managing the clean-up of environmental incidents and spills from environmental, power, domestic or industrial sectors, however broader environmental / geo-environmental / waste management / ecological background is welcomed.
Incident response training is provided and other skills training opportunities may also be available.
Salary and benefits:
- Salary up to £25,000 depending on experience.
- Additional payments are made for being on-call and working overtime outside of normal working hours
- Contributory Pension Scheme
- A flexible benefits programme including the option to buy additional holidays, childcare vouchers and private health care
- Regular training and career development
The RSK Group are an equal opportunity employer
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RSK will not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies other than RSK PSL or Secondary agencies.
We are a dedicated contamination, spill response, and remediation business. We’ve been operating since 2017 and have developed into a science-led, rapid-response RSK unit. With access to all parts of the UK, we provide environmental technical excellence; services include emergency oil spill response, hazardous waste management, and flood response.
Our cost-effective and immediate response services stabilise, assess, and remediate the effects of pollution incidents. We manage more than 600 pollution incidents yearly on various sites, including farms, factories, fuel depots, processing plants, utilities sites, and domestic properties. We can manage the removal of fly-tipped and hazardous waste, as well as provide skip, soil excavation, and tanker hire services. Moreover, owing to the global coronavirus pandemic, we established a COVID-specific unit in our business. Teams disinfect surfaces and apply an electrostatic spray that has been certified to offer ongoing protection against coronavirus (and other bacteria and viruses) for up to 30 days.
RSK Response is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business providing dynamic, multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then. In fact, Environment Analyst recently highlighted RSK’s growth commenting, “Few companies in the environmental services sector can claim to be expanding at the same pace as RSK.”
RSK operates as a group of synergistic businesses with a growth strategy centred on diversification to build a resilient business that can withstand external pressures while also bringing more value to clients and opportunities to employees.
