Company Description
Work with Us. Change the World.
At AECOM, we deliver a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.
With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in strong demand. Join a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators and program and construction managers delivering projects that create a positive, tangible impact around the world.
Job Description
Are you passionate about improving the environmental performance of infrastructure development projects and helping the UK to deliver its net zero commitments? If so, we’d love to hear from you at AECOM.
By joining us you will work daily with technical experts within our established Environmental Impact (EIA) team which comprises over 165 staff across the UK and Ireland. We are a founding member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) EIA Quality Mark, whilst everything we do aligns with our environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy.
As a national team, we are flexible in terms of office location – including Basingstoke, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Chesterfield, Croydon, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London Aldgate, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, St Albans, Warrington – and offer a flexible hybrid working model.
This position offers an opportunity to be involved in large‑scale development projects that are transforming our infrastructure, including:
* Energy generation projects, including carbon capture and storage, hydrogen and renewables (large‑scale solar and floating offshore wind)
* Energy distribution and transmission projects (including projects forming part of the Great Grid Upgrade)
* Carbon capture pipelines
* Strategic national and regional rail projects
* Highway improvements and greenway projects
* Regeneration projects, including port‑side developments
* Developments within the e‑commerce, minerals and waste, water, defence, aviation, commercial/residential and industrial sectors
Here’s what you’ll do:
* Provide Expertise: Coordinate environmental inputs to EIA screening and scoping reports, environmental assessments/ Environmental Statements… and support documents, technical review of specialist chapters across all project life stages.
* Ensure Quality: Use a critical eye for detail to ensure deliverables meet the highest quality standards.
* Project Management: Develop project management skills coordinating resources and budgets.
* Collaborate: Work with integrated design teams to improve environmental outcomes, identify constraints, avoidance and mitigation solutions, and deliver benefits.
* Client Contact: Maintain direct contact with clients and internal supply teams.
* Growth: Promote AECOM’s environmental services to internal and external audiences, support business development opportunities and proposal development.
Join our team, where we don’t just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives. Stay updated on the impactful projects we’re working on through our Environmental services page on LinkedIn.
Qualifications
Here’s what we’re looking for:
* A degree in a relevant environmental discipline (preferably a Masters) 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 in 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 believe it enriches our team. We 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 us at [contact information].
If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you.
For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn (Jean Jones).
About AECOM
AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. We solve complex challenges across transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, driven by equity, diversity and inclusion and commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
We provide a wide array of compensation, benefits and well‑being programs to meet diverse needs. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential and will help you reach yours.
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