Overview
Science Lead/Soil Jobs in Sheffield – England – UK at undisclosed
Title: Science Lead/Soil
Company: undisclosed
Location: Sheffield – England – UK
Category: Science
Join us as a Science Lead (Soil) and make an invaluable contribution to our
Food Safety
& Biosecurity! At Fera, we re making the world a better, healthier and safer place. We re a joint venture partnership between Bridgepoint and Defra and we re working proactively to protect the world we live in and the food we eat. Our teams are investigating plant and bee health, crop protection and sustainable agriculture.
Join us and discover better as you deliver world-class science for the future. We re seeking an experienced soil scientist who is looking for a career contributing to environmental research with a focus on soil health.
You will
have the opportunity to work within a vibrant
interdisciplinary
community of engaged researchers tackling some of the most urgent and
exciting
interlinked global environmental challenges. Sitting within our Land Use and
sustainability
team you will contribute to the delivery of natural capital projects for key public and private sector stakeholders and have exposure to our
innovative
response to the rapidly changing policy developments in environmental land management, tree health,
food safety
and biosecurity.
Role:
Science Lead (Soil) Salary:
From £45,000
Location:
Hybrid
– Bio Tech Campus, York, UK Working pattern: 37.5 Monday Friday anytime between 7am & 7pm (flexi).
Start date:
ASAP depending on recruitment and onboarding timelines. Closing date: 27th June 2024 at 5pm Candidates should be aware that this role will require travel which can involve staying away from home overnight between Monday and Friday, potentially for consecutive weeks during peak survey periods. Candidates must hold a valid driving licence. What you’ll be doing:
• Providing dotted line
leadership
for a team of soil field workers with a varying degree of experience and expertise to help deliver environmental monitoring of programs of national importance.
• Lead and deliver complex field surveys as part of a large team maintaining the highest standards of data collection as well as delivering soil classification surveys and soil sampling.
• Travelling, often to rural areas to deliver and manage survey works, at times staying away from home.
• Training, mentoring and technical supervision of a team of soil scientists.
• Liaise with landowners and other industry technical experts.
• Contribute to the analysis and evaluation of research and interpretation of data, including working with inter-disciplinary teams to agree interpretations and derivations of key metrics.
• Contribute to the development of methods, client proposals and publishing of research findings. What we’re looking for:
• Preferably, you will be a graduate in soils science or a related subject such as physical geography, geology, environmental science or similar plus industry experience working in soil science
• Significant understanding of pedology and related topics, with experience in undertaking soil surveys in England and Wales or equivalent experience in Scotland or abroad, with the ability to apply that knowledge to soils in England and Wales.
• Demonstrable experience of Soil Classification
• Experience or exposure to
leadership
of technical teams, with a focus of coaching and mentorship
• Wider s…
