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Senior Technical Specialist

Salary: £40 – 55k pa + company benefits
Contract: Permanent, full time (40 hours pw)
Location: South West base. Home work / office split, depending on location.
Start date: ASAP

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Monitoring water quality during construction - Frog Environmental

We are recruiting for a Senior Technical Specialist to help lead technical delivery across our consulting, design and project work.

Frog Environmental is a specialist environmental solutions provider focused on protecting water environments.

Our work centres on silt pollution control, surface water management, and the deployment of practical treatment systems on live construction sites. We also design and supply bubble curtain and aeration systems across a range of temporary and permanent applications.

Working with our Technical Director and other senior technical experts, we are seeking a Senior Technical Specialist to support the technical delivery across our consulting, design and project work.

This role is suited to someone who enjoys applying technical expertise to real-world problems and seeing projects through from initial advice to successful delivery and performance verification.

The role combines consulting, design thinking, project delivery and technical leadership. Work may involve site visits, client engagement, technical design thinking, project and contract management, delivering training, and structured reporting.

You will work directly with clients to assess environmental risks, develop practical solutions, and help ensure those solutions perform as intended in the field.

The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring Frog continues to build its reputation as a technically reliable and trusted partner.

Key responsibilities

The Technical Specialist converts technical expertise into practical, repeatable value for clients:

Technical consulting and solution development
Assess construction site environmental risks and develop practical strategies for managing silt pollution and surface water.

Project delivery and management
Lead technical work from initial enquiry through to project delivery, including scope definition, programme management and coordination of internal and external resources.

System specification
Develop and specify appropriate water management and treatment approaches, including silt control systems, temporary water treatment systems, bubble curtains and aeration systems.

Client engagement
Act as a trusted technical contact for clients, helping them understand risks, constraints and practical solutions. Maintain long-term relationships built on clarity, reliability and honest technical advice.

Monitoring, verification and reporting
Design monitoring approaches where required, interpret performance data, and produce clear technical reports verifying system performance.

Training and knowledge sharing
Support delivery of technical training and CPD sessions where appropriate, sharing lessons learned from projects and helping promote good practice across the industry.

Technical authority
Ensure technical advice, product guidance and reporting remain accurate, defensible and grounded in real project outcomes.

Key attributes

Strong technical background in environmental engineering, water management, civil engineering, or a related field.
Experience working with construction sites, environmental protection, or water treatment systems.
Ability to combine technical thinking with practical project delivery.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Confidence working directly with clients and managing technical work.
Professional mindset and sound technical judgement.
AI and IT savvy, comfortable using digital tools and happy to engage with company’s social media channels.

What success looks like

Projects are delivered safely and professionally. Technical work is clearly scoped and delivered. Reports stand up to scrutiny. Solutions perform as expected in the field.

Clients return because they trust Frog’s advice.

You will have real responsibility for technical outcomes and the freedom to exercise professional judgement.

We are looking for someone who enjoys taking technical responsibility and seeing their work perform in the real world.

What is it like working for Frog Environmental?

Our benefits

Role benefits:
– Car allowance
– Private health scheme

Plus our core company benefits:
– 25 days’ annual leave plus 8 bank holidays, and the opportunity to buy an additional 5 days
– Company pension scheme
– Professional subscription reimbursement

Training within the role will be fully supported.

We offer flexibility, wellbeing and work-life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that’s working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Our people are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing policies that support individuals including flexible working and mental health.

About our team

With our office and depot based in Staffordshire and home-based technical experts covering the whole of the UK, we are a small but highly motivated team spanning technical, logistics, depot and business administration. Despite working across different locations, we share a common goal – helping customers solve problems and implement proactive solutions that protect the environment while delivering real value.

Although we work in different locations, we make a point of coming together regularly. Frog organises quarterly team get-togethers, from meals out to social walks, giving everyone the chance to connect and spend time together.

We’re committed to supporting communities

We take great pride in contributing to environmental improvements but it is important to us to also create a lasting impact for our people and in our communities too. That’s why we set up the Frog Environmental Community Fund.

The fund is open to staff and associated companies and supports community-focused projects that deliver positive social or environmental outcomes.

We are a diverse, equal and inclusive workplace

As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we have an ambitious diversity, equality and inclusive culture. We believe in each person’s potential and we’re committed to helping you reach yours.

We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment.

Diversity also drives innovation, empowering our workforce and enabling us to offer our clients the highest level of service.

How to apply for this role

Please send your cover letter and CV to us as soon as possible – before 30 March.

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“Thanks to Frog’s technical expertise and insight, we have found new ways to tackle these common issues and improve our site water management practices – from company-wide awareness and training to monitoring and prevention. As a consequence, we have made significant cost savings and lowered our carbon emissions.”

Paul Thomas, Head of Environment
Winvic Construction

“The results (of the bubble curtain) were quite dramatic – in fact, startling… we have a workable solution that we’ve proved has a dramatic impact on noise propagation.”

David McLaren, Site Manager – Marine & Civils
John F Hunt Regeneration

It’s good to see Frog getting involved with GT at the earliest stages of the project to help with planning out water management in advance of needing it.

Galliford Try

I really enjoyed learning how to identify which measures are best suited to the site conditions.

TACP (UK) Ltd

“Frog Environmental were knowledgeable, helping to establish a workable, cost-effective and low maintenance solution for site approved by the regulator. They really understood the water management issues we had on site and worked with us to develop a solution which works, as well as engaging with our operatives to ensure that they could effectively manage the system.

We are delighted to have found a solution that prevents pollution and protects the environment, and ultimately allows us to continue with construction.”

Glenn Entwistle, Senior Environmental Advisor
Advance JV

The surface water system drainage feature utilised innovative solutions from Frog Environmental.

A rain-ready strategy was implemented, which enabled the development of a robust management system capable of effectively managing fluctuations in weather conditions year-round.

This provided a timely, sustainable and cost saving solution for our client.

Anthony Jordan
RSK Geosciences

“The positive impact of your business on the wider industry is incredible. You have upskilled so many of us and definitely improved water quality across UK construction sites!”

Bernadette Anderson, Environmental Manager
VolkerLaser

Frog’s commitment to develop innovative, market-leading strategies to help their construction clients take responsibility for their sites has and is inspiring an industry-wide change in management culture to improve environmental practices. Of note is their “Rain Ready” water treatment system which is setting new benchmarks in environmental excellence.

Brad Griko, VP Operations
Clearflow Group

“The systems were very effective, and we can see how they could be used on other projects. Being able to talk through the scenario with Frog Environmental was really helpful… We were so pleased to be able to proceed with this essential works with no disruption to either wildlife or our workplan, it saved us time, money, and provided peace of mind that we had taken effective steps to protect the environment.”

Huw Williams, Site Agent
Morgan Sindall Infrastructure – Water & Highways

They (Frog Environmental) were efficient in providing advice and the most appropriate product for our project. The team responded promptly to ensure the Bubble Curtain was delivered to the site on schedule.

It has worked well and has been great on site. We are demobilising this week, and the bubble curtain is already in store at our next site for reuse!

Hayley Jackson, Site Agent
Coffey Group

The Kex Gill road realignment scheme is a challenging project with multiple environmental risks including management of silt and water quality of the surrounding environment given the locality of designated sites.

Frog Environmental are providing us with extensive technical support, including the design, supply and install of their silt control products on site to ensure the project minimises risks to the watercourses in the project vicinity and prevents impact on highly sensitive aquatic species.

It’s great to be working with them and we’re delighted with the success of the whole project.