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Job Description
Start here. Grow here.
Are you passionate about positively influencing the environmental performance of marine development projects? Join our team as a Principal Marine Consultant and you will have the opportunity to work on our range of marine projects in sectors such as offshore wind, interconnectors, subsea cables, ports and harbours and coastal developments. By joining us you will work daily with technical experts, including our in-house marine ecology team, within our established Environmental Impact (EIA) team which comprises over 165 staff across the UK and Ireland.
As we are a national team, we are flexible in terms of office location. Ideally, you would be based in one of our offices across the UK including Basingstoke, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, Dublin, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London Aldgate, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, St Albans and Warrington, as well as taking advantage of our flexible hybrid working model.
In this role you will support and input to our growing portfolio of high-profile marine projects.
Here’s what you’ll do:
1. Provide Expertise: As a Principal Marine Consultant, you’ll manage environmental inputs across a diverse range of marine projects. Manage the preparation of EIA screening and scoping reports, environmental assessments/ Environmental Statements (and in the future Environmental Outcomes Reports) and supporting assessments and documents, including the technical review of specialist chapters. You’ll be involved in all project life stages, from early strategy development and site identification studies, through feasibility, optioneering/ option selection, outline design, to detailed design, discharging of conditions, construction, and scheme operation/ maintenance.
2. Ensure Quality: Your role requires a critical eye for detail to ensure that our deliverables are produced to the highest quality standards and compliance with our rigorous quality management procedures.
3. Project Management: Make effective use of your project management skills, appropriately managing resources and budgets (with support as applicable).
4. Collaborate: You will work as part of an integrated team to improve the environmental outcomes of our projects – you will identify environmental constraints, identify impact avoidance and mitigation solutions, as well as opportunities to deliver benefits.
5. Client Contact: Your role will require the management of client relationships, internal teams and subcontractors.
6. Growth: You will promote AECOM’s environmental services to both internal and external audiences. You will identify and lead business development opportunities and associated fee and technical proposal development.
If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives.
Qualifications
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?
Here’s what we’re looking for:
* A degree in a relevant environmental discipline (preferably a Masters degree) and ideally an appropriate professional membership (Chartered Environmentalists preferred).
* Comprehensive EIA consultancy experience, with proven skills in managing the preparation of environmental reports and the technical review of specialist chapters.
* A detailed understanding of marine consenting and licensing regimes around the UK and ideally Ireland.
* The ability to support collaborative teams, coordinating inputs from technical specialists. Requires the ability to work closely with our clients and the provision of bespoke advice that helps clients to successfully deliver their goals.
* Project management skills, including programming, staff resource and budget management.
* A commitment to innovation and continuing professional development.
* Interest in line management duties and staff mentoring.
* Developing skills in leading business development opportunities.
* Efficient verbal and report writing skills, including technical reviewing, and confidence when engaging with a wide variety of stakeholder groups.
We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at ReasonableAdjustments@aecom.com. At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.
If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!
Additional Information
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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn (annemarieflynn).
About AECOM
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
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