Senior Environmental Manager

RPS Group; Leeds; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading environmental consulting firm in the UK is seeking a Senior Environmental Manager to oversee crucial projects related to environmental consents. This role involves managing project teams, interfacing with clients, and ensuring compliance with environmental regulations. Candidates should have a strong background in environmental science and experience in leading environmental aspects of major infrastructure projects. The position offers a competitive salary between £55,000 and £65,000, with benefits including holiday entitlements and pension schemes.

Benefits

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Company pension scheme

Group Disability Scheme

Share Incentive Scheme

Life Assurance

Cycle to Work Scheme

Health Screening

Employee Assistance Programme

Dental Cover

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of environmental requirements during major development projects.
• Experience leading on environmental aspects of construction projects post-planning.
• Understanding of hybrid bills, DCO, TWA, and TCPA planning regimes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the management and delivery of key environmental projects.
• Integrate consents into project delivery from assessment through to construction.
• Act as main project contact for clients, managing stakeholder interfaces.

Skills

Project Management

Communication

Environmental Regulations

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Degree in Environmental Science or related field

Job description

Senior Environmental Manager

We are searching for an experienced Senior Environmental Manager at our Bristol Temple Quay facility.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

RPS is looking for a Senior Environment Manager to join our Environment & Infrastructure Team. You'll be leading on the management and delivery of some of our environmental teams key projects across the UK and helping our clients manage and obtain environmental consents including for national infrastructure schemes and renewable energy projects.

What you’ll be doing

This is a key position where you will facilitate the integration of consents and consenting activities into project delivery, across design, assessment and construction.

It’s an exciting role that will vary greatly from day to day. Some days will be spent working with our clients and attending meetings and workshops and providing advice to help manage their consent applications or compliance. Other days will be sent working with our various environmental teams with their delivery programmes and schedules. You’ll most likely find yourself either working as a project manager or project director taking responsibility of our environmental teams delivery for the projects you are working on. You’ll be the main project point of contact for our clients, manage key environmental stakeholder interfaces and will be responsible for the financial performance of your projects.

Key responsibilities

• Highly organised, excellent communicator and leads projects from the front.
• Strong knowledge of environmental requirements during major development and infrastructure projects in the UK.
• Degree (or equivalent) in an environmental or related subject; MSc or further professional qualifications would be helpful but not essential.
• Experience leading on the environmental aspects of development projects in the construction sector, particularly post planning consent and during detail design and construction stages.
• Strong experience in delivering consents under hybrid bills, DCO, TWA and TCPA planning regimes.

What’s in it for you?

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays, option to purchase up to 5 extra days per year
• Company pension scheme
• Group Disability Scheme
• Share Incentive Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Health Screening
• Employee Assistance Programme (including numerous wellbeing initiatives and mental health support)
• Dental Cover
• Professional Memberships and access to BenefitHub offering discounts, cash back offers and rewards.

We’re an accredited training provider – from entry level to master’s degree level professional qualifications in leadership & management and executive coaching & mentoring, we support learning and development for everyone.

A personal development plan and a transparent career pathway puts you in the driving seat of your career and you’ll be supported as far as you want to go.

We encourage and value different ideas, perspectives, and styles of thinking. We need a mix of experiences and skills to develop the most innovative ideas. We respect one another and recognise the potential and contribution of everyone. You’ll be joining a diverse community and a company that puts its people first and prioritises their wellbeing.

We understand the need to work flexibly, with agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we’re happy to talk about flexible working. This is a workplace that works for you.

A career here is far from ordinary. Here you’re not a number, you’re part of the solution.

RPS, A Tetra Tech Company

Representing an exciting new chapter in our business, on 24 January 2023 RPS became a Tetra Tech company. With over 28,000 employees in more than 550 offices in more than 120 countries on seven continents, Tetra Tech is a leading, global provider of consulting and engineering services. As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to offer our people market-leading development and project opportunities, helping to solve some of the world’s most complex problems.

Here you're part of the solution.

RPS is where you come to build a career, where you'll find true support, encouragement and the opportunity to grow. Our people are our success. We need people who share our passion on solving the problems that matter. People who believe they can shape a more sustainable future, who build lasting relationships and who embrace new ways of working. And where you’ll be supported every step of the way.

We know we develop better solutions together. That’s why we’re committed to ensuring Fairness, Inclusivity, and Respect in all that we do.

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and work in partnership with Inclusive Employers. We’re also proud to support reservists and their families, having signed the Armed Forces Covenant.

Please let us know if you require any adjustments during the interview process, we can then make reasonable changes to support you in performing to the best of your ability.

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Required Qualifications

Permanent

Annual Salary

55,000.00 - 65,000.00

Our company provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.