Environmental Advisor

Overview

Delivers project‑level environmental risk management from design through construction.

Key Responsibilities

• stakeholder management
• relationship building
• environmental assessments
• mitigation design
• professional development
• work delivery

Tasks

-Build key relationships with Local Authorities, contractors, consultants, Enabling Team – ecologists, planners, environmental advisors, design engineers, project management, Strategy Leads. -Undertake own continuing professional development under guidance from line managers. -Responsible for producing own work to a high standard. -Undertake environmental assessments. -With senior staff support, solve problems including designing appropriate mitigation strategies. -Contribute to effective and demonstrable stakeholder management to ensure “buy in” from stakeholders and environmental regulators.

Requirements

• ms office
• degree
• chartered
• driving licence
• communication
• eia

What You Bring

-Full driving licence. -Excellent communication and presentation skills. -Accurate report preparation, including reasoned arguments supported by evidence as required.. -Relevant degree and Post Graduate qualification (desirable) -Ability to work on own initiative on technical matters. -Degree level or similar experience (essential) -Competent in MS Office. -Professional Qualification (associate or ideally chartered) with appropriate Professional body, e.g. IEMA/IES (desirable) -Excellent organisational skills. -Experience of being part of a team of environmental scientists and specialists in preparing environmental appraisals and also preferably Environmental Impact Assessments. -Have technical skill in relevant specialist fields, and/or in engaging and managing specialists undertaking relevant studies, e.g. landscape, noise, odour assessment, water/air quality, waste, nuisance, planning etc.. -Work will require travel in the UK to office and / or sites. -Demonstrate understanding of current UK Environmental Legislation, policy and guidance.

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-Constructs reservoirs, pipelines, sewage treatment upgrades, and implements contingency measures like importing water during droughts. -Specializes in large-scale water infrastructure, operational delivery, and environmental engineering across the South East. -Notably fined for misreporting sewage spills; offers guided tours of Victorian sewers and public access to historic reservoirs.

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