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Clean- up and Remediation Specialist

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Job title: International Clean-up and Remediation Specialist - Dumpsite Closure
Location: Vientiane, Lao PDR (site visits and remote)
Contract type: Contract / Freelance - approx. 6 person-months, spread across the construction and commissioning phase
Rate: Competitive day rate, dependent on experience
Start date: To be confirmed
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About the role

Allen & York is recruiting on behalf of an engineering consultancy for an International Clean-up and Remediation Specialist. The role is on a World Bank-funded solid waste infrastructure project in Vientiane Capital, Lao PDR.

At the centre of the project is the clean-up, closure and capping of the existing dumpsite at the city's main landfill. New engineered landfill cells will be built alongside it, and the city's transfer stations will be upgraded.

As a Key Expert in the construction supervision team, you will lead technical oversight of the remediation works. Your job is to make sure the works control pollution of soil, water and air, and are delivered in line with the approved design.

Key responsibilities

Oversee the remediation works, including waste excavation, relocation, regrading and capping

Advise on the order of remediation works, allowing for wet-season constraints

Check that the systems below are built and perform as designed:

liners

leachate collection and treatment

drainage

landfill gas management

Advise on technologies and processes that control pollution releases and clean up existing contamination

Plan and interpret sampling of soil, groundwater, surface water and air, and recommend corrective action where results show contamination

Oversee sampling methods and the calibration of monitoring equipment

Contribute to quality assurance, progress reporting and commissioning

Essential requirements

Master's degree in environmental science, engineering, planning or a related field

Professional experience as an environmental engineer or in a similar field

Experience on clean-up or remediation projects, including site investigations, sampling of soil, water and air, and interpretation of results

Experience designing technologies, systems and processes that control pollution and clean up contamination

Experience assessing sites for environmental impact and calibrating air, water or soil sampling equipment

Strong communication and report-writing skills in English

Highly valued

Dumpsite closure and remediation experience

Experience in Lao PDR or elsewhere in Southeast Asia

Working knowledge of the Lao language

Desirable

Experience on World Bank, Asian Development Bank or other multilateral development bank projects

Experience on comparable projects in South or Southeast Asia

Experience of leachate treatment and landfill gas management

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