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Natasha Scott

My CV

  • Education:

    I went to school at Hull Collegiate. I also attended the 6th form there.

    I then moved to Leeds to attend University and also stayed there to complete my Masters as they had one of the best geology departments in the country.

  • Qualifications:

    11 GCSEs: 3 A* (Geography, History, Food Tech), 6 As (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, English Language, Maths, Astronomy), 2 Bs (Spanish and English Literature)
    1 AS Level: B (Psychology)
    3 A Levels: B (Geography), B (History), C (Chemistry)
    BSc Geological Sciences (Hons) 2:1
    MSc Structural Geology with Geophysics Pass

  • Work History:

    First job: Sainsburys, Customer Service Assistant (June 2015-January 2019)
    Engie, Admin Assistant (January 2019-April 2019)

  • Current Job:

    AECOM, Graduate Engineering Geologist (April 2019 – Present)

  • About Me:

    I am an engineering geologist and Masters graduate, currently living near Leeds, UK. I am 26 years old and love reading, video-games and collecting rocks and minerals.

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    I am Natasha, an engineering geologist and I currently live in Morley, near Leeds. In the next 10 years I am hoping to move to Canada to continue my career and fulfil my dream of living in another country.

    I have been working in my current role since April 2019 and have been really enjoying using the skills I learned during university, where I did a Masters degree in Structural Geology and a Bachelors in Geological Sciences.

    In my down-time I enjoy reading (currently re-reading His Dark Materials), playing video-games (currently Animal Crossing) and going on walks in the lovely Yorkshire countryside. I enjoy Great British Bake Off, Doctor Who and I’m a Celebrity.

    I am a member of the Leeds Reading Group and am a Fellow of the Royal Geological Society.

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    I do a mix of fieldwork and office work, with most of my fieldwork being on the railway.

    I complete desk studies (what is already known), soil and rock logging, sampling of water and all other materials and writing of reports.

  • My Typical Day:

    There is no typical day – I can be on a site one day and in the office the next. Fieldwork can be a busy stretch of road, a lonely field or on the railway at night. There is a lot of variation to my days!

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    A typical fieldwork day will start, on site around 8am. I will arrive on site, complete any safety paperwork and get that days briefing if there have been any changes on site or to my way of working – this is to make sure no-one falls in the big hole that another team dug!

    Then I will get to work with whatever needs doing onsite. This will mainly be recording soil and rock, sampling and managing a small team. I work with small 2 tonne rigs mainly, which do Windowless Sampling work – here the rig will use force to push metal cylinders into the ground. Inside these are plastic liners which capture the material and hold it until it can be taken out of the ground to be logged and sampled. I also do testing on the material to determine it’s hardness, the presence of volatile gases such as hydrocarbons and soak-away testing where we test how fast it absorbs water (very important if building on the location).

    We will then wrap up for the day around 5pm. I will get any time sensitive or delicate samples collected from site. I will also send through any paperwork to my manager or the manager in charge of the job I am completing

  • What I'd do with the prize money:

    To engage students by showing them how we work and how important engineering jobs are to building and maintaining structures and transport.

  • My Interview

    • How would you describe yourself in 3 words?

      Methodical, busy, friendly

      What did you want to be after you left school?

      Volcanologist

      Were you ever in trouble at school?

      Not really

      Who is your favourite singer or band?

      Poets of the Fall

      What's your favourite food?

      Chicken bhuna and garlic naan

      If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!

      To be more confident in myself. To be the best at my job. To be able to eat as much as I wanted with no negative side affects.

      Tell us a joke.

      What happened to the hyena which swallowed an oxo cube? He made a laughing stock of himself.

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