Associate Environmental Field Technician

JOB DESCRIPTION
Start or grow a hands-on technical career in environmental building assessments with UL Solutions.
Are you looking for a practical, varied, and meaningful technical role where no two days feel the same? This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing team of indoor environmental specialists, supporting projects that help clients understand, manage, and improve their building environments.
As an Associate Environmental Field Technician, you will support inspections, testing, and diagnosis of buildings and their systems under normal operating conditions. You will collect environmental data, record observations, assist with sample handling, and contribute to professional reports that help clients address existing issues and prevent future risks.
The role is ideal for someone who enjoys being out on site, solving problems, working with people, and developing technical expertise through real-world experience.
We are currently looking for two Associate Environmental Field Technicians:

• South: Berkshire / Southern office area
• North: Leeds / Manchester area

Hands-on variety
Work on real client sites, carrying out inspections, testing, observations, and data collection.
Training and mentoring
Learn from experienced consultants and develop toward recognized industry qualifications.
Career progression
Build a pathway into environmental surveying, consultancy, and more senior technical roles.
RESPONSIBILITIES

• Conducts environmental testing and inspection at customer sites and submits data in a timely manner using
  electronic monitors and other UL Solutions-supplied equipment or supplies.
• Coordinates site arrival times with customer to reinforce good communication.
• Ensures that UL Solutions-provided equipment is in good working order and within calibration prior to each assigned
  inspection. Is accountable for calibration of all assigned equipment. Notifies manager when equipment is not
  compliant.
• Follows designated scope of work for each project and ensures that all tasks are completed on site and in a timely
  manner. Identifies additional opportunities or customer needs.
• Responds to questions in a timely fashion regarding site inspections from manager and report team as needed.
• Properly documents field samples by accurately completing applicable chains of custody and submitting samples to
  the appropriate laboratory in a timely manner.
• Assists Senior Field Technicians and people leaders with training new employees.
• Integrates continuous improvement concepts and skills into all aspects of the job.
• Complies with all UL Solutions safety training in the field.
• Reads and follows the UL Solutions Code of Conduct and physical and digital security practices.
• Performs other duties as directed.

QUALIFICATIONS
We are looking for someone with curiosity, reliability, professionalism, and a strong desire to learn. You do not need to be the finished article, but you should be motivated to build your technical knowledge and develop a career in environmental consultancy.
• Academic background in engineering, science, environmental studies, building services, or a related technical discipline, educated to college or degree level.• Ability to follow technical direction from senior personnel and work effectively as part of a team.• Professional approach when dealing with clients and handling sensitive or confidential information.• Strong willingness to learn and develop technical and environmental expertise.• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with fluency in English.• Full UK driving licence.• A genuine interest in buildings, environmental conditions, technical investigation, and problem solving.
A career with purpose
If you enjoy technical work, being out on site, learning from experienced professionals, and contributing to projects that help clients better understand and manage their buildings, this could be an excellent next step in your career.
At UL Solutions, you will have the opportunity to grow your skills, build confidence in the field, and develop into a trusted environmental surveying professional.
Total Rewards: We understand that rewards are an important consideration as you plan the next step in your career.Salary range varies by location and local market conditions. It is based on multiple factors, including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, and other factors. This position is eligible for an annual bonus with a target payout of 5% of base salary. You'll also enjoy annual paid leave, access to our ULS University to support continuous learning and career development, two volunteering days each year to participate in community activities, and flexible working arrangements designed to help you balance work and life.
What you'll experience working for ULS
UL Solutions has been pioneering change since 1894 and we're still leading the way. From day one, we've blazed a trail protecting the planet and everyone on it. Our teams have influenced billions of products, plus services, software offerings and more. We break things, burn things and blow things up. All in the name of safety science.
That's where you come in - because none of it could happen without you. It takes passion to protect people, problem-solving to safeguard personal data and conviction to make the world a more sustainable place. It takes bold ideas and brilliant minds to build a better world for future generations across the globe.
This is more than a job. It's a calling. A passion to use our expertise and play our part in creating a more secure, sustainable world today - and tomorrow. As a member of our safety science community, you'll use your ideas, your energy and your ambition to innovate, challenge and ultimately, help create a safer world.
Everyone here is unique. But we're also a global community, working together to help create a safer world. Join UL Solutions and you can connect with the brightest minds in the business, all bringing their distinct perspectives and diverse backgrounds together to deliver real change.
Empowering our customers to keep the world safe means thinking ahead. It means investing in training and empowering our people to learn and innovate. At UL Solutions, we help build a better future - one where everyone benefits.
Join UL Solutions to be at the center of safety. To learn more about us and the work we do, visit UL.com
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. Unfortunately, we are not able to support visa applications or future sponsorship for this position
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ABOUT US
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers' product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers' products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Our buildings don't just shape our skylines - they provide the backdrop to our lives. And knowing they're safe matters. We've been helping to create safer structures since 1894, combining our expertise with innovative new technologies to help make sure both people and property are secure. As more people have to deal with extreme weather, we're on hand to test products and building materials to increasingly rigorous standards. Whether we're simulating tornadoes or testing smoke alarms, the work we do on our team is used in buildings around the world to - quite literally - help save lives. Join our team and build your skills, build innovative solutions and help build a safer world.