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Environmental Monitoring for Health Protection (EMHP) is a UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) programme established in 2020 to deliver COVID-19 Wastewater Monitoring. The National Surveillance programme routinely analysed wastewater from over 500 locations across England for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 and its variants. It now works on commercial wastewater projects across the country and the world focusing on SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens in a range of settings.

As an Environmental Engineer your main responsibilities would be: 

Design and delivery of technical reviews of operational activity, for example wastewater sample collection and laboratory methods, to drive continuous improvement
Act as technical point of contact for delivery partners across government and academia
Provide scientific support to product owners
Support business development activities for consultancy, guidance, and certification services
Overseeing continuous improvement of lab methods and analysis

You’ll have relevant experience in:

Experience in analysis and interpretation of complex data, ideally environmental e.g., wastewater, contaminated land etc., and / or molecular data 

Experience designing and delivering research projects, including environmental field studies, sampling strategies

Ability to create and populate project documents
Ability to work to extremely short deadlines where required

Experience working in a fast-paced, operational/scientific environment

If this Environmental Engineer role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply and speak to one of our PSR team now. rishon.reid@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

"In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following; this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different."