Environmental Impact Assessment - Associate Director

Overview

Lead environmental assessments and consents for major projects in Ireland and NI.

Key Responsibilities

• innovation
• compliance management
• risk management
• team leadership
• business development
• stakeholder engagement

Tasks

-Promote and sponsor innovation, to maximise opportunities for workstream efficiencies and the ongoing development of our portfolio of solutions. -Ensure application of governance and compliance management in regard to relevant environmental legislation and policies. -Identify, manage and mitigate risks to project delivery. -Lead environmental project teams to successful delivery outcomes. -Support business development and sales opportunities, promoting the portfolio of solutions that Jacobs has to offer to meet challenges faced by clients. -Mentor and support the technical and personal development of colleagues and peers, to further enhancing your teams capability footprint -Take a collaborative stakeholder engagement approach across all activity and processes required for development consent processes.

Requirements

• mitigation
• client-facing
• project management
• leadership
• chartered

What You Bring

-A track record in scoping, developing appropriate and adequate mitigation measures according to project requirements to facilitate successful consenting outcomes. -Demonstrable experience in client facing roles, able to foster and cultivate a close working and collaborative relationship with clients, comfortable proactively engaging in consultation with key stakeholders to meet project requirements. -In-depth project management and governance experience, ensuring that health, safety, security, sustainability and inclusivity is embedded into project and decision making processes. -Excellent leadership / communication skills; -Have attained Chartered status and Full Membership of a recognised relevant professional body (e.g. IEMA, CIWEM, IES)

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About Jacobs

-Headquartered in Dallas, it has evolved into a global powerhouse delivering consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery services. -Its portfolio spans transformative projects—clean water systems, data centers, rail expansions, offshore wind roadmaps, and wastewater plants. -Specialising in advanced manufacturing, cities & places, energy, environmental, national security & defense, life sciences, transportation and water sectors. -Jacobs has reshaped itself via key moves—spinning off government services, acquiring CH2M in 2017, and exiting traditional oil & gas units. -Projects often tackle high-stakes, complex challenges: wastewater treatment in Vancouver, LIRR station upgrades, and AI data centres in Portugal. -Unusually, the firm shifted its HQ from California to Dallas in 2016 to align with its expanding national and global reach.

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