Overview
Senior EIA Consultant role at AECOM. Join a national Environmental Impact (EIA) team in the UK & Ireland. This position offers flexible locations and a hybrid working model, with offices in Basingstoke, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Chesterfield, Croydon, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London Aldgate, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, St Albans, Warrington.
As a founding member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) EIA Quality Mark, our work aligns with our ESG strategy.
Responsibilities
* Provide Expertise: As a Senior Environmental Consultant you’ll coordinate 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 across 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.).
* Ensure Quality: Your role requires a critical eye for detail to ensure that our deliverables are produced to the highest quality standards.
* Project Management: Your role will enable you to develop your project management skills by coordinating resources and budgets (with support as applicable).
* Collaborate: You will work 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.
* Client Contact: Your role will require direct contact with our clients and our internal supply teams.
* Growth: You will promote AECOM’s environmental services to both internal and external audiences. You will support business development opportunities and associated fee and technical proposal development.
Qualifications
* A degree in a relevant environmental discipline (preferably a Masters degree) and an appropriate professional membership.
* EIA consultancy experience, including coordinating the preparation of environmental reports and the technical review of specialist chapters.
* A developing understanding of relevant consenting regimes.
* The ability to work collaboratively as part of an established team, coordinating inputs from specialist technical teams.
* Developing project management skills, including programming and budget management.
* A commitment to innovation and continuing professional development.
* Experience of the DCO and/ or TWAO consenting regimes would be beneficial, but not essential.
* Efficient verbal and report writing skills, including technical reviewing, and confidence when engaging with a wide variety of stakeholder groups.
Additional Information
We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and 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 ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
Job details
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Consulting, Information Technology, and Sales
* Industries: Architecture and Planning, Civil Engineering, and Construction
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