John McCawley
Senior Consultant, EIA,
Hemel Hempstead

Pat Massey
Personal Assistant,
Hemel Hempstead 

Sally Hough
Environmental
Consultant,
EIA,
Helsby

Sharon
Wilkinson
HR,
Congleton

 Richard Boyle
Senior Consultant,
Geosciences,
Helsby

John McCawley recently joined RSK in the Hemel Hempstead office after completing an MSc in Environmental Management with Imperial College. “I work with the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) team and from day one I have been working on the Environmental Statement of a proposed large gas pipeline connecting the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminals at Milford Haven with South Wales and England. This experience has allowed me to get to grips immediately with the complexities of a large pipeline EIA – invaluable personal experience in energy sector EIA, as well as important training ground for future energy EIA contracts within the company. Environment as a sector, and RSK as a company, are both growing and evolving rapidly. The combination of the two creates exciting opportunities to diversify the business with the confidence that financial backing is there for good ideas. Don’t just think your ideas, act upon them. Opportunities are waiting to be discovered and great personal satisfaction can come from having an impact on your own work direction.”

“I like working in such a young and vibrant team,” says Pat Massey. As Personal Assistant to the head of the RSK Hemel Hempstead office, Pat feels a responsibility to help all incoming graduates to settle into the office environment and is active in the company’s newly created social committee. “We organise evening socials, adventure days, badminton and 5-aside football and obtain financial support from RSK for any good ideas,” she says. “Sometimes it’s a struggle to keep integrating the systems in such a fast growing company and to get to know people in other offices, but our annual company event at Girton in Cambridge is fun and a great way to put faces to names.”

Sally Hough originally joined RSK as a student undertaking a years placement as part of her university degree. She has since returned to take up the role of an Environmental Consultant in the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) team. On a day-to-day basis Sally undertakes consultations with both statutory and non-statutory consultees regarding medium-sized projects in their early planning stages. Sally says " no two projects are the same as they each yield a variety of environmental issues; protected species, contamination and consents/ authorisations to name a few... each day is different". Sally also contributes to larger projects requiring Environmental Statements including, amongst others, the West of Duddon Sands Offshore Windfarm, the Teeside Oil Terminal and numerous National Grid Pipelines.

Sharon Wilkinson joined the RSK Group from the merger with GeoDelft Environmental Ltd. "Since joining the company, I have significantly developed my role within Human Resources and Business System by centralising the recruitment process within the company, Quality and Health and Safety auditing and setting up new offices. RSK has encouraged me to develop my career within the company by allowing me to undertake a varied role within the Group".

Richard Boyle has worked for RSK for two years and is a Senior Environmental Consultant within the Helsby Geosciences team. It is a dynamic and friendly group of individuals offering everything from site investigations to remedial design for a wide range of clients. “I think I'm involved in some excellent and demanding projects,” says Richard, “and I manage to have an extremely varied work life, being involved with all areas of the team, from PPC applications, Part IIA work to large-scale site investigations and research projects. As part of this, I’ve been involved in the production of a best-practice document for ground gases for the National House Builders Council (NHBC) and was on the Steering Committee for the forthcoming Construction Industry Research and Information Association (CIRIA) document on the same subject, which have both been very interesting.”

"As I am based in the Aberdeen office the majority of my work relates to the UK oil and gas industry," says Victoria Crossland. "It is a busy and interesting time to be involved with the industry with oil prices being so high and the ever increasing pressure of more rigorous environmental legislation for the offshore operators". Victoria joined RSK Group in February 2005 as a Consultant, and now having been a Senior Consultant for a year, she has just been promoted to Principal Consultant. "RSK has recognised my ambitions and really supported my career development, which really contributes towards making them such a good employer."

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