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Is your working environment exciting, enthusiastic, forward thinking, still learning and developing?
If you can answer yes to this question, you must already be working for Westlakes Scientific Consulting.
Westlakes Scientific Consulting provides consultancy services to a wide range of industries and customers in the environmental, genetics and epidemiology and sickness absence management. The company is well respected in its field and has a reputation for delivering challenging work to high standards, underpinned by high levels of integrity and scientific rigour.
Professional Challenge and Development
Westlakes Scientific Consulting is a business where staff can pick up a wide range of experience very quickly. At a local level, Cumbria faces a wide range of environmental challenges related to both past and present industrial activity, and looking forward, a bright future based on energy and technology businesses developing in the county.
On a national basis Westlakes Scientific Consulting provides advice and guidance to national and international regulators and a diverse range of national customers. The expertise of our staff sets us apart from typical consultancies, and opportunities exist to pursue research activities. The company is part of the UCLan group, one of the UK's fastest up and coming Universities with over 35,000 students, which provides beneficial linkages to academia, staff development opportunities and other benefits.
The company runs a formal appraisal and development programme, to identify staff interests and potential, meaning that those with partcular aspirations have a well defined framework to grow within.
The Working and Living Environment.
Westlakes
The Genetics and Occupational Health teams are based at the Westlakes Science and Technology Park, whch is situated on the edge of the English Lake District, surrounded by spectacular views of the Fells and the Irish Sea. The park, which is a major hub for business in the area, is located just 3 miles from the nearest town of Whitehaven and is convenient for the popular towns of Cockermouth and Keswick. It boasts quick and easy road access with ample car parking right outside your place of work.
Dovenby
The Dovenby office, home of the environment team, is located close to Cockermouth, an attractive and popular town at the edge of the Lake District, with excellent access to Carlisle and Penrith as well as the West Coast. Local schools are highly rated and the quality of life is high.