Senior EIA Coordinator & Environmental Lead

Egis Group; Dublin; Remote; EUR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Egis Engineering Ireland seeks a Senior Environmental Consultant to join our Planning and Environmental team, leading EIAR preparation for complex infrastructure projects and coordinating cross‑disciplinary inputs to ensure robust environmental reports.

The role involves senior technical review, mentoring junior staff, and ensuring compliance with Irish and EU environmental legislation, while supporting bids and client engagement across multiple disciplines and stages of project delivery.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Level 8 or Level 9 qualification in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Water, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 8–10 years’ experience in environmental consultancy or infrastructure projects.
• Proven experience coordinating EIARs and managing multi-disciplinary environmental inputs.
• Experience undertaking senior technical review and quality assurance of environmental assessment documentation
• Strong understanding of Irish and EU environmental legislation and guidance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the preparation and delivery of EIARs from project inception and scoping through option selection, design development, statutory submission and post-submission responses.
• Lead multidisciplinary environmental teams and coordinate inputs across planning, design, technical and specialist disciplines.
• Coordinate environmental specialists (ecology, water, noise, air, traffic, etc.), ensuring timely inputs and consistency across chapters.
• Provide senior technical review and quality assurance of EIAR chapters, environmental reports and associated deliverables.
• Review EIAR chapters for compliance with EIA legislation and Irish guidance.
• Ensure correct application of the mitigation hierarchy and integration of mitigation into project design.
• Manage environmental deliverables in line with agreed scope, programme, budget and quality requirements.
• Provide senior environmental input and critically review specialist assessments covering topics such as water, soils, biodiversity, climate and waste, drawing on subject-matter specialists where required.
• Review baseline data, impact assessments, and significance conclusions for technical robustness.
• Ensure appropriate consideration of Habitats Directive, Birds Directive, Water Framework Directive, and EIA Directive requirements.
• Support preparation of environmental management measures, CEMP inputs, and monitoring proposals.
• Work closely with planning colleagues to align environmental assessments with planning strategy and submission requirements.
• Identify and elevate significant environmental and consenting risks, advise project managers and clients on appropriate responses, and support evidence-based project decisions.
• Liaise with clients, statutory bodies, and internal teams on environmental matters.
• Support responses to statutory queries, RFIs, and public submissions.
• Contribute to early-stage constraints mapping and environmental inputs to option selection and design development.
• Act as a key point of contact for clients on environmental assessment matters, including progress updates, technical advice and issue resolution.
• Monitor project performance against agreed scope, programme and fee, manage changes in scope, and identify additional service requirements where appropriate.
• Mentor and support junior environmental consultants and coordinators, including review of work and professional development guidance.
• Support bids, tenders and proposals through preparation of environmental scopes, methodologies, programme inputs and fee estimates.

Skills

EIAR coordination

Leadership

Multidisciplinary coordination

Environmental assessment expertise

Communication skills

Risk management

Mentoring junior staff

Education

Level 8/9 in Environmental Science or related

Job description

Egis Engineering Ireland seeks a Senior Environmental Consultant to join our Planning and Environmental team, leading EIAR preparation for complex infrastructure projects and coordinating cross‑disciplinary inputs to ensure robust environmental reports.

The role involves senior technical review, mentoring junior staff, and ensuring compliance with Irish and EU environmental legislation, while supporting bids and client engagement across multiple disciplines and stages of project delivery.