Principal Environmental Consultant - EIA Projects

AECOM; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM is seeking a Principal Environmental Consultant to lead environmental inputs for EIA projects across a flexible UK office network including Belfast and other cities. The role covers lifecycle stages from strategy through construction and operational phases, with a focus on delivering high-quality environmental outcomes.

You will work with a large EIA team, contributing to environmental performance improvements, proposal development, and client relations within a leading global

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary environmental inputs to infrastructure projects.
• Strong knowledge of EIA, environmental assessment methods, planning legislation.
• Experience with DCO and/or TWAO is a bonus.
• Delivery of consultancy services with strong project management skills.
• Ability to coordinate specialist technical inputs effectively.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Provide Expertise: manage environmental inputs to EIA screening and scoping reports, EIAs, Environmental Statements and related documents.
• Ensure Quality: deliverables meet high quality standards and procedures.
• Project Management: manage resources and budgets.
• Collaborate: work with integrated design teams to improve outcomes.
• Client Contact: manage relationships with clients and internal teams.
• Growth: promote environmental services and lead fee/technical proposals.

Skills

EIA knowledge

Planning legislation

Stakeholder engagement

Project management

Client relationships

Option development

Education

Masters in Environmental discipline

Chartered Environmentalist (or equivalent)

Tools

Environmental Impact assessment

Job description

Company Description

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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

Start here. Grow here.

Due to significant infrastructure planning wins and new opportunities, we are looking to bring in a Principal Environmental Consultant to working on EIA projects.

As we are a national team, we are flexible in terms of office location – this includes offices in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, St Albans as well as taking advantage of our flexible hybrid working model.

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.

Our Environment business has over 8000 staff working across the UK and Ireland. 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.

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

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Provide Expertise: As an Principal Environmental Consultant you’ll manage environmental inputs to EIA screening and scoping reports, environmental assessments/ Environmental Statements (and in the future Environmental Outcomes Reports) and supporting documents, including the technical review of specialist chapters. You’ll be 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. You’ll have the opportunity to work across a portfolio of development projects covering multiple consenting regimes (DCO, TCPA, TWA, hybrid Bill etc.).
• Ensure Quality: Your role requires a critical eye for detail to ensure that our deliverables are produced to the highest quality standards and compliance with our rigorous quality management procedures.
• Project Management: Make effective use of your project management skills, appropriately managing resources and budgets (with support as applicable).
• Collaborate: You will working as part of integrated design teams to improve the environmental outcomes of our projects – you will identify environmental constraints, identify impact avoidance and mitigation solutions, as well as opportunities to deliver benefits.
• Client Contact: Your role will require the management of client relationships and internal supply teams.
• Growth: You will promote AECOM’s environmental services to both internal and external audiences. You will identify and lead business development opportunities and associated fee and technical proposal development.

You will work daily with technical experts within our established Environmental Impact team. 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.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

To apply for this will role, you’ll need to be able to demonstrate interest and experience of managing and coordinating multidisciplinary environmental inputs to infrastructure development projects. You should also have:

Environmental & Planning Expertise

Strong knowledge of EIA, environmental assessment methods, planning legislation, and relevant consenting and licensing regimes. Experience with DCO and/or TWAO would be a bonus.

Consultancy & Project Management

Experience delivering consultancy services, with strong project management skills including programming, resourcing and budget management. Able to coordinate specialist technical inputs effectively.

Communication & Collaboration

Confident engaging with a wide range of stakeholders, with excellent verbal, report writing and technical review skills. A collaborative team player who can build strong working relationships.

Qualifications & Professional Development

Degree in a relevant environmental discipline, preferably at Masters level, with appropriate professional membership. Chartered Environmentalist status and an interest in mentoring and line management would be advantageous.

Flexibility

Willingness to travel and work flexibly across projects and stakeholder groups.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [e-mail] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.