Managing Consultant, Geology

Location: New Delhi; Bangalore, India

**ERM** is the world’s largest specialist sustainability consultancy, with over 50 years of experience helping organisations navigate complex environmental, social, and governance challenges. We bring together a global community of experts to deliver meaningful impact for our clients and the planet.

Our **Consulting Delivery Hub** (CDH) in India is a critical part of ERM’s global consulting model enabling scalable, high-quality delivery across regions and service lines. CDH teams work in close partnership with regional consultants to support global client projects, providing specialist expertise, driving consistency, and enhancing delivery efficiency across our most important programmes.

As part of the Consulting Delivery Hub, you will collaborate with colleagues worldwide, contribute to complex sustainability projects, and play a key role in shaping the future of global consulting delivery.

**Why this role matters?**

As a Level 3 Geologist, you will play a key role in delivering complex contaminated land, hydrogeology, and remediation projects across ERM's global client portfolio. You will provide technical leadership, manage project delivery, mentor junior staff, and work closely with regional teams and clients to ensure high-quality project outcomes. This role is critical in driving delivery excellence, maintaining technical quality, and supporting business growth initiatives.

**What your impact is?**

• Leading multidisciplinary investigation and remediation projects.

• Providing technical guidance and mentoring junior geologists and consultants.

• Managing project schedules, budgets, and client expectations.

• Supporting proposal development and business development activities.

• Driving technical quality, consistency, and innovation across project delivery.

**What you’ll bring:**

• Strong understanding of contaminated land assessment, hydrogeology, remediation, and environmental consulting practices.

• Working knowledge of international regulations, industry guidance documents, and best practice standards.

• Proven experience in managing project teams and coordinating multiple stakeholders.

• Strong technical report writing and data interpretation capabilities.

**Preferred:**

• Experience managing large and complex site investigation, hydrogeological assessment, and remediation projects.

• Experience with groundwater flow and contaminant transport

modelling.

• Experience supporting multinational clients across various industry sectors.

• Understanding of ESG, due diligence, and environmental liability assessments.

**Key responsibilities:**

• Manage and deliver contaminated land, hydrogeological, and remediation projects from planning through completion.

• Lead technical interpretation of geological, hydrogeological, and environmental datasets.

• Review technical reports, conceptual site models, and risk assessments and provide recommendations to support senior technical review and approval.

• Manage project budgets, resources, schedules, and quality assurance processes.

• Supervise field investigations, subcontractors, and project teams.

• Mentor and provide technical oversight to junior staff.

• Prepare and review fee proposals, scopes of work, and technical methodologies.

• Support client meetings, presentations, and project discussions.

• Ensure compliance with ERM quality, health, safety, and risk management requirements.

• Contribute to technical excellence initiatives and knowledge-sharing programs.

**REQUIREMENTS:**

• Bachelor's and/or Master's Degree in Geology, Hydrogeology, Environmental Science, or related discipline.

• 7-10 years of relevant consulting experience.

• Strong experience in contaminated land assessment and remediation.

• Demonstrated project management experience.

• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams.

• Strong client communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Advanced proficiency in data analysis, interpretation, and reporting.

• Experience with industry-standard modelling and GIS software is advantageous.

At ERM, sustainability is our business.

We are the world’s largest advisory firm focused solely on sustainability, offering unparalleled expertise across business and finance.

ERM partners with clients to operationalize sustainability at pace and scale, through our unique combination of strategic transformation and technical delivery capabilities.

Our diverse global team of experts works with the world’s leading organizations to help them set clear sustainability targets, measure progress and operationalize strategy through deep implementation and business transformation.

With more than 50 years of experience, our ability to integrate sustainability solutions and our depth and breadth of technical knowledge are why organizations choose to partner with us as their trusted advisor.

Every one of us firmly believes in the potential to create value for our clients through an integrated approach to sustainability (because we have personally seen it and professionally achieved it).

Our team members are passionate about client service. We work closely with our clients to help them operationalize their sustainability goals and meet their environmental, health and safety objectives while advancing ERM’s purpose through delivering tangible progress in what the United Nations coined The Decade of Action.

Organizing our people across globally integrated communities of technical and strategic talent positions ERM to be a “boots to boardroom” leader in bringing that value creation to our clients, partners, and the world.

We recruit exceptional professionals with a personal and professional passion for sustainability and nurture them to even greater success as specialists. We prepare our consultants to bring integrated, innovative and sustainable solutions to our clients and provide opportunities for ongoing development across a variety of subject areas related to technical, business, and personal growth.

At ERM, effort pays off and becomes career defining work that leaves a positive imprint on our planet.

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