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Job Description
Start here. Grow here.
Are you passionate about improving the environmental performance of infrastructure development projects and helping the UK to deliver its net zero commitments? If so, we'd love to hear from you at AECOM.
By joining us, you will work daily with technical experts 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 - this includes offices in Basingstoke, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Chesterfield, Croydon, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London Aldgate, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, St Albans, Warrington as well as taking advantage of our flexible hybrid working model.
This position offers an opportunity to manage environmental inputs to large-scale development projects that are transforming our infrastructure - this includes:
1. Energy generation projects, including carbon capture and storage, hydrogen and renewables (such as large scale solar and floating offshore wind)
2. Energy distribution and transmission projects (including projects forming part of the Great Grid Upgrade)
3. Carbon capture pipelines
4. Strategic national and regional rail projects
5. Highway improvements and greenway projects
6. Regeneration projects, including portside developments
7. Developments within the ecommerce, minerals and waste, water, defence, aviation, commercial/ residential and industrial sectors
Here's what you'll do:
1. Provide Expertise: As an Principal Environmental Consultant you'll manage environmental inputs to EIA screening and scoping reports, environmental assessments/ Environmental Statements (and in the future Environmental Outcomes Reports) and supporting 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. You'll have the opportunity to work across a portfolio of development projects covering multiple consenting regimes (DCO, TCPA, TWA, hybrid Bill etc.).
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 be working as part of integrated design teams 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 and internal supply teams.
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.
Qualifications
To apply for this role, you'll need to be able to demonstrate interest and experience of managing and coordinating multidisciplinary environmental inputs to infrastructure development projects. You should also have:
1. Experience of providing consultancy services
2. An excellent understanding of the EIA processes, environmental assessment methods and applicable planning legislation
3. A detailed understanding of relevant consenting and licensing regimes
4. Confidence when engaging with a wide variety of stakeholder groups
5. The ability to work collaboratively as part of an established team, coordinating inputs from specialist technical teams
6. Excellent verbal and report writing skills, including technical reviewing
7. Project management skills, including programming, staff resource management and budget management
8. A degree in a relevant environmental discipline (preferably a Masters degree) and an appropriate professional membership
9. Willingness to travel
The following would be a bonus:
1. Chartered Environmentalist status
2. Interest in line management duties and staff mentoring
3. Experience of the DCO and/ or TWAO consenting regimes
Additional Information
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. #J-18808-Ljbffr