Environment and Consenting Lead

Severn Trent; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

28 days holiday + bank holidays

Annual bonus scheme

Leading pension scheme

Sharesave

Dedicated training and development

Electric vehicle scheme

Family friendly policies

Job summary

Severn Trent is seeking a senior environmental professional to lead and shape environmental outcomes across major AMP8 programmes, including national-scale water projects. Based at our Coventry Head Office, you’ll operate at the interface of environment, planning, regulation and delivery, influencing decisions and ensuring environmental risks are managed credibly and proportionately.

You’ll manage environmental consultants, build regulatory relationships and provide technical leadership across

Qualifications

• Senior environmental professional with experience in regulated infrastructure.
• Experience leading environmental investigations across project lifecycles.
• Ability to influence decisions and manage environmental risks.

Responsibilities

• Lead environmental investigations and assessments across the full project lifecycle.
• Act as senior environmental authority for assigned programmes, setting direction and assuring quality.
• Manage and coordinate environmental consultants delivering regulator-ready outputs.
• Build relationships with regulators and planning authorities to align scopes early.
• Identify environmental risks and opportunities and develop practical solutions.
• Contribute environmental inputs to regulatory submissions, including RAPID gate papers.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor project teams.
• Work with multi-disciplinary team to build SRO knowledge.

Skills

Environmental leadership

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Mentoring

Job description

We have a rare opportunity for a senior environmental professional to play a leading role in some of the UK’s largest and most complex infrastructure programmes, helping to shape long term environmental outcomes at both regional and national scale.

Sitting at the heart of nationally significant infrastructure, this role operates at the interface of environment, planning, regulation and delivery. You’ll act as a trusted environmental authority, influencing key decisions and ensuring environmental risks and opportunities are managed intelligently, proportionately and credibly.

LET’S CUT STRAIGHT TO IT

This role focuses on Strategic Resource Options (SROs) — collaborative, long term water supply solutions developed across the sector to improve resilience to climate change, drought and environmental pressures.

Severn Trent is currently involved in several major AMP8 programmes, including inter regional water transfer schemes of national importance. You’ll help shape the environmental strategy, assurance and regulatory approach underpinning these once in a generation projects.

What You’ll Do

As an Environment and Consenting Lead, you will:

• Lead environmental investigations and assessments across the full project lifecycle
• Act as the senior environmental authority for assigned programmes, setting direction and assuring quality
• Manage and co-ordinate environmental consultants, delivering regulator ready outputs that provide value for money
• Build strong relationships with regulators, statutory bodies and planning authorities, agreeing scopes and approaches early
• Identify and manage environmental risks and opportunities, developing pragmatic solutions to complex challenges
• Author and assure environmental inputs to key regulatory submissions, including RAPID gate papers
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to project teams

You’ll be supported by an experienced multi disciplinary team, with access to deep water resources expertise as you build SRO specific knowledge.

We currently have 2 roles available, both permanent and on a 12-monthFTC basis. You’ll be based out of our Head Office in Coventry, and work within our Strategic Resource Options team. With this being such a critical role, we’re looking for someone who can join us 37 hours a week with flexibility to work from home at times.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

We’re keen to hear from senior environmental professionals comfortable operating in complex, regulated environments and influencing high value decisions. You may come from water, infrastructure, environmental assessment, planning, capital delivery, or a regulatory or statutory body background.

Direct SRO experience is useful, but not essential — we’re looking for strong environmental judgement, leadership capability and confidence working in regulator facing roles at national scale.

What You’ll Bring

• Significant experience providing environmental leadership on complex infrastructure or capital programmes
• Strong understanding of UK environmental regulation and risk management
• Ability to translate complex technical issues into clear, defensible advice for senior decision makers
• Experience working with regulators and external stakeholders on high profile or sensitive issues
• Confidence to influence, challenge and lead in uncertain or evolving environments

Why join us

You’ll work on infrastructure that genuinely matters, with the scale and ambition to shape the future water environment of the UK. We offer a senior, influential role with real ownership, exposure to nationally significant programmes, and a supportive, collaborative environment that values professional judgement.

We welcome and celebrate diverse individuals, knowing they help us better serve our communities. We seek people who get involved, want to be part of something bigger, and make a difference because they care.

How We’ll Reward And Care For You

Working here isn’t just a job. You can build a career at Severn Trent. We’ll reward you for it, too. We have a range of benefits that recognise great work, and award-winning training to help you reach your potential. And we’ll also help you play your part in looking after the environment and the communities we serve.

With That In Mind, Here Are Just Some Of Our Favourite's Perks That You’ll Get Being Part Of The Severn Trent Family

• Competitive salary
• 28 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year)
• Annual bonus scheme (of up to £2,250 per annum based on company performance)
• Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
• Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
• Dedicated training and development with our ‘Academy’
• Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
• Family friendly policies and two volunteering days per year