Principal EIA Consultant

Description

• 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.
• 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.
• 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

• Confidence when engaging with a wide variety of stakeholder groups
• Project management skills, including programming, staff resource management and budget management
• A detailed understanding of relevant consenting and licensing regimes
• Chartered Environmentalist status
• Experience of providing consultancy services
• 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
• Willingness to travel
• Excellent verbal and report writing skills, including technical reviewing
• 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

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance