Environmental Manager

McCarthy Recruitment; Risley; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £65,000

Benefits

Leadership role

Career progression

Job summary

McCarthy Recruitment seeks an Environmental Manager to lead a newly created environmental leadership function in Warrington. You will guide multidisciplinary teams across environmental monitoring, planning, surveying and GIS, shaping projects and people development.

This role focuses on leadership, client relationships and business growth rather than hands-on reporting. If you enjoy mentoring, driving continuous improvement and influencing strategy, this is the next step.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in Environmental Science, Environmental Management, Earth Sciences or a related discipline.
• Experience in environmental consultancy and leading projects.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Mentoring and developing technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Support resource planning and on-time project delivery.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships.
• Identify opportunities for business growth and support tender submissions.
• Coach and mentor technical professionals.
• Drive continuous improvement across processes and standards.
• Shape the department's future direction with senior leadership.
• Ensure projects are delivered safely and to high quality standards.

Skills

Leadership

Environmental monitoring

Client relationships

Mentoring teams

Project delivery

Business development

Strategy planning

Education

Degree in Environmental Science/Management/Earth sciences

Tools

GIS

Job description

Environmental Manager - Leadership Opportunity

Location: Warrington

Salary: Up to £65,000 + Benefits

Role: Permanent - Full Time

Overview

Are you an experienced Environmental Manager, Principal Environmental Consultant or Technical Lead looking for more than just your next project?

This is an opportunity to step into a newly created leadership role where you'll use your environmental expertise to shape teams, influence business decisions and help drive the future growth of a well-established business.

Working across a diverse portfolio of environmental, surveying and infrastructure projects, you'll provide leadership to multidisciplinary technical teams, helping ensure projects are delivered to the highest standards while developing people and supporting commercial success.

If you've reached the point in your career where you enjoy mentoring others, building client relationships and influencing the wider business as much as delivering technical work, this could be the next step you've been looking for.

The Role

This isn't a role where you'll spend every day writing technical reports or carrying out site work.

Instead, you'll become one of the key leaders within the technical function, supporting teams across environmental monitoring, planning, surveying and GIS.

You'll work closely with managers to ensure projects are properly resourced, help solve technical and operational challenges, coach and develop technical professionals and maintain the high standards clients expect.

Alongside leading the team, you'll play an important commercial role by strengthening existing client relationships, identifying opportunities for additional work, supporting tenders and helping the business continue to grow.

As a trusted technical leader, you'll also contribute to improving systems, processes and ways of working, ensuring the department continues to evolve alongside the business.

Ideal Candidate

• Degree qualified in Environmental Science, Environmental Management, Earth Sciences or a related discipline
• Experience within environmental consultancy, environmental monitoring, contaminated land, hydrogeology, ecology, permitting or infrastructure
• Experience leading environmental projects and mentoring technical teams
• Strong commercial awareness and experience managing client relationships
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Passion for developing people and driving continuous improvement

Suitable Backgrounds

• Environmental Manager
• Principal Environmental Consultant
• Senior Environmental Consultant
• Associate Consultant
• Associate Director
• Environmental Team Leader
• Technical Manager
• Operations Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop multidisciplinary technical teams
• Support managers with resource planning and project delivery
• Build and maintain strong client relationships
• Identify opportunities for business growth and support tender submissions
• Coach and mentor technical professionals
• Drive continuous improvement across technical processes and standards
• Work closely with senior leadership to shape the future direction of the department
• Ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently and to the highest quality standards

What's in it for You?

• Salary up to £65,000
• Newly created leadership role with genuine influence
• Opportunity to shape a growing technical function
• Diverse portfolio of environmental, surveying and infrastructure projects
• Long-term career progression
• Supportive and collaborative senior leadership team

Commutable Locations

Warrington, Manchester, Liverpool, Wigan, Preston, Bolton, Chorley, St Helens, Widnes, Runcorn, Northwich, Chester, Blackburn, Stockport.

We'd love to hear from you.

Whether you're already managing a team or looking to step into a broader leadership position, we'd love to hear from you.

The Legal Bit: We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age. By applying for this role, you are explicitly consenting for McCarthy Recruitment to hold and process your data in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations. Your details will be added to our holding database. We process certain personal information about you for our legitimate business interests to identify and contact suitable candidates about positions that may be relevant to them. Details are set out in our privacy policy at privacy. If you wish to exercise your right to access, erase, or restrict the processing of your data, please contact us at the office and we will respond to your query