Principal EIA Consultant

Aecom

The Role

Overview

Lead EIA consultancy for large infrastructure projects, ensuring quality and client delivery.

Key Responsibilities

  • project management
  • business development
  • quality assurance
  • client management
  • environmental assessments
  • design collaboration

Tasks

-Project Management: Make effective use of your project management skills, appropriately managing resources and budgets (with support as applicable). -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. -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. -Client Contact: Your role will require the management of client relationships and internal supply teams. -Collaborate: You will 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. -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.).

Requirements

  • masters
  • chartered environmentalist
  • eia
  • project management
  • dco
  • consultancy

What You Bring

-A degree in a relevant environmental discipline (preferably a Masters degree) and an appropriate professional membership -An excellent understanding of the EIA processes, environmental assessment methods and applicable planning legislation -Project management skills, including programming, staff resource management and budget management -The ability to work collaboratively as part of an established team, coordinating inputs from specialist technical teams -Experience of the DCO and/ or TWAO consenting regimes -A detailed understanding of relevant consenting and licensing regimes -Willingness to travel -Confidence when engaging with a wide variety of stakeholder groups -Experience of providing consultancy services -Excellent verbal and report writing skills, including technical reviewing -Chartered Environmentalist status

The Company

About Aecom

-Launched as a bold independent infrastructure consultancy from a merger of five legacy firms dating back over a century. -Handles everything from geotech to electro-mechanical systems, as seen in the award-winning Romaine Hydroelectric Complex in Canada. -Guides projects through every lifecycle stage in transportation, buildings, water systems, energy, and environmental sectors.

Sector Specialisms

Industrial

Agriculture, Food & Beverage

Automotive & Heavy Equipment & Machinery

Data Centers & Digital Infrastructure

High Performance Logistics

Energy

Renewable Energy

Grid Modernization

Transportation

Transit and Rail Projects

Highways

Bridges

Aviation Facilities

Facilities Management

Educational Institutions

Healthcare Facilities

Commercial Buildings

Corrections Facilities

Urban and Regional Planning

Building Construction

Oil and Gas Industry

Maritime Facilities

Water Management Systems