Senior Consultant - Environmental Permitting

Ayesa; St Helens; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Ayesa is seeking an experienced professional to manage and develop the environmental permitting team. The role involves project management, client engagement, and technical leadership, ensuring effective delivery of services in a diverse and forward-thinking engineering firm. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, a relevant degree, and extensive experience in permitting and regulatory frameworks.

Qualifications

• 10 years relevant experience in environmental permitting.
• Excellent written and communication skills.
• Detailed understanding of environmental risk assessment tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage projects, including complex ones, and prepare quotes/invoices.
• Support junior team members and engage with clients.
• Develop new clients and source new work.

Skills

Communication

Organizational skills

Project delivery

Interpersonal skills

Technical knowledge

Education

First degree in a relevant Science or Geography or Civil Engineering

Tools

MS Word

Excel

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Company Description

Ayesa is a globally-oriented, forward-thinking company deeply committed to fostering diversity, inclusion, equity, and sustainability. These principles form the bedrock of our dedication to our 11,300 employees and serve as the driving forces behind our spirit of innovation.

With a presence in 23 countries worldwide, Ayesa has earned a prominent international reputation in various engineering fields, including infrastructure, water conveyance and treatment systems, transportation, marine projects, waste management, aeronautics, and defence. Additionally, Ayesa is a well-established technology consultancy, specialising in facilitating the digital transformation of large corporations, particularly in the utilities sector, and providing technological solutions for public institutions.

As a technology and engineering firm, we complement our technological proficiency with the capacity to design physical infrastructures. This includes crafting distinctive buildings that imbue cities with character, designing iconic bridges that seamlessly blend into their surroundings, creating transportation systems such as high-speed roads, intelligent roadways, stations, and airports that serve as the backbone of regions, and engineering remotely controlled networks for energy and water distribution, driving urban and demographic development.

Position

Description

Contribute to the management of and develop the work of the environmental permitting team. Support and manage existing clients and identify and source new work and clients. The work is office based but will involve site visits and attendance at meetings.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and develop the team's multidisciplinary work and manage the preparation of work and junior team members.
• Support junior team members to help their development. Engage with existing clients. Develop new clients and identify and win new work.
• Provide a technical lead to support the team and other teams within the organisation.
• Prepare quotes and invoices, support and manage projects, including management of more complex projects.

Requirements

• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills necessary to work as part of a team and to engage with clients and regulators.
• Excellent time and organisational skills allowing completion of work to time and budget. Support junior members achieve the project objectives to time and budget.
• Take responsibility for project delivery, use initiative and work without supervision. Continue to develop technical knowledge including identifying and attending relevant training. Provide training to junior team members and other teams within the organisation.
• Understand client interaction and maintain clients and develop new clients.
• Excellent written skills.

Essential

• First degree in a relevant Science or Geography or Civil Engineering
• Good IT skills especially MS Word and Excel.
• A minimum 10 years relevant experience.
• Excellent knowledge of permitting and how permitting and other regulatory frameworks interact.
• Detailed understanding of environmental risk assessment tools e.g. LandSim / H1.
• Have good knowledge of EMS and QMS.

Desirables

• Relevant higher degree.
• Chartered Membership of a relevant Chartered Institute

Other information

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.