Senior Environmental Consultant

Oriel Recruitment; Roscommon; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid role with remote work

Company pension

Annual leave package

CPD & career development support

Autonomy in project delivery

Job summary

Oriel Recruitment is seeking a Senior Environmental Consultant to join its established environmental consultancy team in Connacht. The role offers autonomy, leadership, and a diverse portfolio across extractive, waste, residential, commercial, and industrial developments.

You will mentor colleagues, lead EIA projects, manage licences and regulatory submissions, and drive business growth while ensuring high technical and professional standards.

Qualifications

• Experience leading environmental assessments and regulatory applications.
• Strong knowledge of Irish and EU environmental legislation.
• Excellent report writing and multi-project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex environmental projects from proposal to completion.
• Manage client relationships, budgets, resources, and project programmes.
• Coordinate Environmental Impact Assessment projects and regulatory submissions.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to the team and subconsultants.
• Ensure compliance with Irish and EU environmental legislation.

Skills

Client relationship management

Project leadership

Regulatory knowledge

Technical reporting

Budget & resources management

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Environmental Science

Job description

Role: Senior Environmental Consultant

Employment Type: Permanent, Full time

Sector: Environmental Consultancy

Location: Connacht

The Opportunity

Oriel Recruitment, is recruiting an experienced Senior Environmental Consultant to join its clients established and growing environmental consultancy team.

Our client delivers a diverse portfolio of environmental projects for clients across Ireland.

With a strong pipeline of work and continued investment in its consultancy services, the company is offering an experienced environmental professional the opportunity to take on a senior, influential position with genuine autonomy and responsibility.

The Senior Environmental Consultant will play a central role in the technical leadership and successful delivery of complex environmental projects. The successful candidate will manage key client and stakeholder relationships, guide multidisciplinary project teams, and ensure projects are delivered to a consistently high technical and professional standard.

The Role

In this role, you will lead a diverse portfolio of environmental projects across the extractive and waste industries, as well as residential, commercial and industrial developments. Taking projects from proposal through to completion, you will provide technical leadership, manage client relationships, and contribute to business growth. As a senior member of the team, you will also mentor colleagues and help shape the continued development of our clients consultancy services.

The key responsibilities of this role, can be summarised as follows:

Key Responsibilities

• Lead complex environmental projects from initial proposal through to completion.
• Take responsibility for proposals, technical quality, budgets, resources, and project programmes.
• Lead Environmental Impact Assessment projects and coordinate multidisciplinary technical inputs.
• Manage EPA Industrial Emissions Licence applications.
• Oversee discharge licence, waste licence and waste permit applications.
• Manage By-product Article 27 and End-of-Waste Article 28 applications.
• Prepare and review environmental assessments, reports, applications and regulatory submissions.
• Provide strategic, technical and regulatory advice to clients.
• Ensure projects comply with relevant Irish and EU environmental legislation.
• Liaise with clients, project teams, external specialists, subcontractors and regulatory bodies.
• Engage with County Councils, the EPA, An Coimisiún Pleanála and other statutory authorities.
• Build and maintain trusted, long-term client and stakeholder relationships.
• Identify opportunities to expand existing client relationships and support business growth.
• Provide technical direction, mentoring and support to colleagues and subconsultants.
• Strengthen project-delivery processes and maintain high technical and client-service standards.

Relevant Technical Experience

• Environmental Impact Assessment preparation and management
• EPA Industrial Emissions Licence applications
• Waste licence, waste permit and discharge licence applications
• By-product Article 27 and End-of-Waste Article 28 assessments
• Environmental compliance and regulatory assessments
• Irish and EU environmental legislation
• Complex environmental and technical reporting
• Multidisciplinary project management
• Client, stakeholder and regulatory engagement

Essential Requirements

• Ideally 10+ years' experience in environmental consultancy or a closely related area
• Significant environmental-sector experience gained in Ireland or the UK
• Bachelor's or master's degree in Environmental Science or a related discipline
• Proven experience leading environmental assessments, impact studies and regulatory applications
• Strong knowledge of Irish and EU environmental legislation and its practical application
• Excellent technical report-writing and project-management skills
• Ability to manage multiple complex projects and competing priorities
• Strong commercial awareness, including an understanding of project budgets and resources
• Confident communication with clients, stakeholders and regulatory authorities
• Ability to provide clear technical leadership and direction
• Full clean driving licence and willingness to travel as required

Desirable

• Project management qualification
• Chartered status or membership of a recognised environmental professional body
• Experience mentoring or supervising environmental professionals
• Safe Pass, Manual Handling or First Aid certification

What our client offers

• Competitive salary and tailored benefits package
• Hybrid role with the possibility of remote work
• Company pension and annual leave package
• Continuing Professional Development and career-development support
• Opportunity to lead a diverse portfolio of environmental projects
• A high level of autonomy and influence over project delivery
• Direct involvement in key client relationships and business growth
• Opportunity to mentor and develop other environmental professionals
• Scope to influence the continued development of the consultancy
• A progressive, supportive and collaborative working environment

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