Principal Environmental Consultant

Company Description

At AECOM, we're delivering 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.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

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 we are a national team, we are flexible in terms of office location – this includes offices in Basingstoke, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Chesterfield, Croydon, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London Aldgate, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, St Albans, Warrington as well as taking advantage of our flexible hybrid working model.

At AECOM, we’re at the forefront of innovation, delivering an exceptional portfolio of projects brought through long-term partnerships with key clients. This position offers an opportunity to manage environmental inputs to large-scale development projects that are transforming our infrastructure – this includes:

• Energy generation projects, including carbon capture and storage, hydrogen and renewables (such as 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 portside developments
• Developments within the ecommerce, minerals and waste, water, defence, aviation, commercial/ residential and industrial sectors

Responsibilities

• Provide Expertise: Manage environmental inputs to EIA screening and scoping reports, environmental assessments/ Environmental Statements, and supporting documents, including the technical review of specialist chapters. 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. Work across a portfolio of development projects covering multiple consenting regimes (DCO, TCPA, TWA, hybrid Bill etc.).
• Ensure Quality: Ensure that deliverables are produced to the highest quality standards and compliance with rigorous quality management procedures.
• Project Management: Utilize project management skills, appropriately managing resources and budgets.
• Collaborate: Work as part of integrated design teams to improve the environmental outcomes of projects – identify environmental constraints, impact avoidance and mitigation solutions, as well as opportunities to deliver benefits.
• Client Contact: Manage client relationships and internal supply teams.
• Growth: Promote AECOM’s environmental services, identify and lead business development opportunities and associated fee and technical proposal development.

If you're interested in the impactful projects we're working on, follow our AECOM Environmental services page on LinkedIn to stay updated.

Qualifications

To apply for this role, demonstrate interest and experience of managing and coordinating multidisciplinary environmental inputs to infrastructure development projects. You should also have:

• Experience of providing consultancy services
• An excellent understanding of the EIA processes, environmental assessment methods and applicable planning legislation
• A detailed understanding of relevant consenting and licensing regimes
• Confidence when engaging with a variety of stakeholder groups
• The ability to work collaboratively as part of an established team
• Excellent verbal and report writing skills, including technical reviewing
• Project management skills, including programming, staff resource management and budget management
• A degree in a relevant environmental discipline (preferably a Masters) and appropriate professional membership
• Willingness to travel

The following would be a bonus:

• Chartered Environmentalist status
• Interest in line management duties and staff mentoring
• Experience of the DCO and/or TWAO consenting regimes

Additional Information

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. Our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm with significant revenue in fiscal year 2023.