Senior Contaminated Land Consultant

A typical week often involves technical review, expert advice, and client briefings — reviewing investigation findings for technical defensibility, sitting in client strategy sessions, drafting expert opinions, occasionally testifying or supporting litigation. You're often the senior judgment when transactions hinge on what the site means. Opinions rendered and projects advanced are the indirect measures.

What's harder than people expect is the personal accountability of senior expert work — your name appears on opinions that drive significant financial decisions. Variance across employers is sharp: at large environmental consultancies you support a portfolio across clients; at boutique expert-witness or land-transaction-advisory firms you build a personal book over years.

People who tend to thrive here have decades of technical depth, defensible writing, and steady judgment under hostile scrutiny. PG, PE, and board-level credentials anchor seniority. The trade-off is the personal exposure in contested matters and the ongoing weight of others' reliance on your conclusions.