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The Vacancy
Materials & Structures an RSK Group company are recruiting for a Senior Technician to join the team based in London and the South East. This is a full-time, permanent position.
We provide specialist inspection, surveying and investigation services within the built environment. We also provide consultancy services to a range of clients in the public and private sectors. The department includes a UKAS-accredited laboratory, enabling us to provide in-house services for evaluating construction materials and to assist our clients with detailed assessment reports and guidance.
We have an exciting opportunity for you at RSK to join our Materials & Structures business as a Senior Technician, and work alongside our specialist investigation engineers/consultants/technicians, providing specialist inspection, surveying and investigation services within the built environment. The department also includes a UKAS-accredited laboratory, enabling us to provide in house services for evaluating construction materials and to assist our clients with detailed assessment reports and guidance.
Responsibilities:
Leading and developing a small team on site.
Testing and sampling of existing structures
Structural investigations
Condition surveys
Liaising with clients and colleagues to ensure successful project
Qualifications and Experience:
Minimum 3 years’ relevant experience
Experience of leading a team is essential.
Must hold a full clean UK driving licence
GCSE grade A-C in mathematics, English and science.
CSCS card and IPAF, PASMA, PTS, IRATA qualifications an advantage
Salary and Benefits:
£32,000 to £40,000 commensurate with experience
Regular training and career development
Contributory Pension Scheme and life assurance cover.
Flexible benefits programme with the option to buy additional holidays and private health care
Professional institution fees and training will be covered.
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Full Job Description attached
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The Company
RSK is a global leader in sustainable solutions focusing on environmental, engineering, and technical services. Working together, we address societal challenges aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, offering integrated solutions across sectors such as water, energy, food, infrastructure, cities, mining, and waste management.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We firmly believe that embracing and celebrating the diversity in our workforce makes us a stronger and more innovative company.
By providing workplace adjustments, we make it easier for people to confidently explore and pursue our career opportunities and recognise that flexibility is key to fostering a dynamic and thriving workplace. Many of our office-based positions benefit from a flexible working arrangement, allowing our team members to achieve a balance between professional and personal commitments.
We actively encourage applications from candidates of all genders, races, ethnicities, ages, neurotypes, religions or beliefs, sexual orientations, and those with disabilities.
Since the beginning, our philosophy has remained the same: employ, develop and reward talented individuals. People are crucial to our company, and we recognise that our success hinges on our colleagues' growth. We're committed to preserving RSK's people-first culture, promoting innovation, and fostering a supportive and caring environment for collaboration. At RSK, we want you to be part of our successes and help you reach your career aspirations. We take pride in offering employees fulfilling and challenging careers by promoting ongoing growth and empowering individuals to excel.
If you're passionate about making a difference, join us as we work together to build a brighter, more equitable, and sustainable future for all. Do you have what it takes?
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RSK Group Limited: Recruitment Privacy Notice
RSK Group Limited and each of its subsidiary companies (we) are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal information about you. You are being sent a copy of this privacy notice because you are applying for work with us (whether as an employee, worker or contractor). It makes you aware how and why your personal data will be used, namely for the purposes of the recruitment exercise, your rights in relation to that personal data, how long it will usually be retained for and other information we are required by law to notify to you.
For the purposes of the recruitment process we are the Data Controller, and we will comply with data protection law and principles and a copy of our Data Protection Policy is available on request.
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We may, where it is lawful to do so, also collect, store and use the following types of more sensitive personal information:
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We collect personal information about candidates from sources including you (the candidate), recruitment agencies, background check providers, credit reference agencies, Disclosure and Barring Service (in respect of criminal convictions), your named referees and third parties holding personal data in a publicly accessible source such as LinkedIn and Facebook etc.
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Comply with legal or regulatory requirements.
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We may use information about your race or national or ethnic origin, religious, philosophical or moral beliefs, or your sexual life or sexual orientation, to ensure meaningful equal opportunity monitoring and reporting.
We will collect information about your unspent criminal convictions history. We are entitled to carry out a criminal records check in order to satisfy ourselves that there is nothing in your criminal convictions history which makes you unsuitable for the role.
We have in place an appropriate policy document and safeguards which we are required by law to maintain when processing such data.
Third Parties
We will only share your personal information with third parties to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your application. All our third-party service providers and other entities in the RSK Group are required to take appropriate security measures to protect personal information in line with our policies. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use or otherwise access or process your personal data for their own purposes. We only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions relating to your application or, if successful, employment.
Our online recruitment portal through which you make an application via our website is supplied by Net-Worx (2001) Ltd (trading as Networx). If you have any queries regarding the portal, Networx can be contacted at: The Engine House, Wharfebank Business Centre, Ilkley Road, Otley, LS21 3JP. The Data Protection Officer for Networx is Rob Baker and can be contacted at dpo@networkxrecruitment.com.
If you submit information using the online recruitment portal, by email or otherwise your personal data and other information will be processed in accordance with this privacy notice.
Only our authorised personnel with a need to know and are involved in the recruitment process have access to personally identifiable information submitted through the portal.
How long will we retain your personal information?
If your application is not successful, your personal data will be retained:
I. If you apply directly to RSK through an advertisement or in response to an open vacancy listing, for a period not exceeding 2 years from your application date: or
II. If your application is referred from an Agency engaged to work on a vacancy for RSK, for a period of 6 months from your application date.
Unless you request that your data be retained following the appropriate period, you will be sent an automated email asking if you wish your details to be retained. If you do not respond to the email to confirm you wish to remain active, your candidate account will automatically be deactivated. You can also deactivate your account at any time. At the point of your account being deactivated, your data will be fully anonymised. This is so RSK can retain data for statistical purposes. All personal information will be removed.
We retain your personal information for that period for legal reasons and in order to show that we have conducted the recruitment exercise in a fair and transparent way.
If you are successfulin your application, your recruitment information will be transferred to your personnel file and you will receive our Privacy Notice for Employees, Workers and Contractors which explains how long your personal information will be kept for and the processing activities which will be undertaken in relation to your employment.
Your rights in connection with personal information
Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:
Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it and that it is correct.
Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
Request deletion of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no lawful reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below), or have withdrawn your consent
Object to processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground.
Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
Request the transfer of your personal information to another party (in some circumstances).
Right to withdraw consent of your personal information being collected, processed or transferred where you have previously provided consent for that specific processing at any time (in limited circumstances)
Right to complain, to make a complaint to the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) or
seek judicial remedy.
How to exercise your rights?
If you want to exercise the above rights in relation to your personal information please email us at HRCompliance@rsk.co.uk. For data subject access requests, we ask that you complete our Data Subject Access Request Form which is available on request. This is help us deal with your request more easily.
You will not normally need to pay a fee to exercise any of these rights. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request for access is clearly unfounded or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with the request in such circumstances.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or how we handle your personal information, please write to our HR Compliance team at HRCompliance@rsk.co.uk. We have appointed our Data Protection Committee to oversee compliance with data protection legislation and best practice, they can be contacted at privacy@rsk.co.uk
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office, the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues, or to seek judicial remedies.
This Privacy Notice is issued by RSK Group Limited, Spring Lodge, 172 Chester Road, Helsby, Cheshire, WA6 0AR.
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