Ecological Compliance Lead & ECoW Services (Hybrid)

AECOM; Croydon; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Career development opportunities

Volunteering days

Job summary

AECOM’s Nature team is seeking an Associate Director to lead Environmental and Ecological Compliance (ECoW/EnvCoW) services across the UK & Ireland. You’ll provide technical leadership, act as a senior verifier, and build a network of specialist delivery partners to support major infrastructure projects.

Based in any UK office with a flexible hybrid model, you’ll drive quality standards, resource planning, and environmental risk management from planning through construction.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering Environmental and / or Ecological Clerk of Works (ECoW) services on major infrastructure, utilities or development projects.
• Strong understanding of construction-phase ecological and environmental compliance requirements.
• Experience working directly with contractors and construction delivery teams.
• Knowledge of required environmental and / or ecological secondary consents, including planning conditions, Development Consent Orders (DCOs), environmental permits and protected species licensing requirements.
• Experience reviewing, assuring and approving environmental compliance deliverables.
• Strong ecological background with the credibility to act as a technical lead and quality reviewer for ECoW services.
• Experience managing subcontractors, suppliers or specialist delivery partners.
• Strong commercial awareness and experience supporting business development, client engagement and work winning activities.
• Membership of CIEEM or an equivalent professional body and preferably chartered (or working towards chartership).

Responsibilities

• Lead for ECoW and EnvCoW services in UK&I.
• Lead Verifier for ECoW-related deliverables produced by internal teams and supply chain partners.
• Ensure projects are appropriately resourced, mobilised and delivered to quality standards.
• Provide expert advice on construction-phase ecological risk management and environmental compliance.
• Support growth of the secondary consents service line through focus on environmental and ecological compliance.
• Develop and implement a UK&I supply chain strategy for ECoW, EnvCoW and wider environmental compliance services.
• Support successful delivery of environmental commitments across major infrastructure projects.
• Support growth of Clerk of Works services such as arboriculture and archaeology through integrated environmental solutions.

Skills

ECoW services

Environmental compliance

Contractor liaison

Secondary consents

Technical leadership

Supply chain management

Job description

AECOM’s Nature team is seeking an Associate Director to lead Environmental and Ecological Compliance (ECoW/EnvCoW) services across the UK & Ireland. You’ll provide technical leadership, act as a senior verifier, and build a network of specialist delivery partners to support major infrastructure projects.

Based in any UK office with a flexible hybrid model, you’ll drive quality standards, resource planning, and environmental risk management from planning through construction.