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Are you passionate about improving the environmental performance of infrastructure development projects?

If so, we’d love to hear from you at AECOM.

We are recruiting experienced Associate Environmental Consultants to join our Environment & Sustainability business that has over 650 staff working across the UK and Ireland. As we are a national team, we are flexible in terms of office location – this includes offices in Basingstoke, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Chesterfield, Croydon, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London Aldgate, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, St Albans, Warrington.

However, do get in touch if this does not work for you because, for the right candidate, we’ll explore other options. We would welcome interest from candidates looking for either a part-time or full-time position.

As an Associate Environmental Consultant you’ll lead and manage environmental inputs to large-scale development projects that are transforming our infrastructure, such as:
 

• Energy generation projects, including those that include carbon capture and storage, hydrogen and renewables (including solar and offshore)
• Energy distribution and transmission projects (including international connectors)
• 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

As an Associate Environmental Consultant you’ll lead environmental inputs across 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 will have the opportunity to work across a portfolio of development projects covering multiple consenting regimes (DCO, TCPA, TWA, hybrid Bill etc.). 

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.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Lead:  Leading and supporting business opportunities and associated fee and technical proposal development. Undertake the multidisciplinary environmental inputs across a wide range of projects, supporting projects to gain development consent
• Oversee: Leading the preparation of EIA screening and scoping reports and Environmental Statements (and in the future Environmental Outcomes Reports), including the technical review of specialist chapters. Managing resources, delegating activities, monitoring and managing project budgets
• Collaborate: Working as part of integrated design teams to identify environmental constraints, avoid impacts and develop solutions in accordance with the mitigation hierarchy, as well as delivering benefits where possible. Working in partnership with internal supply teams and members of the wider business
• Mentor: Supporting staff development and mentorin
• Champion: Promoting AECOM’s environmental services to both internal and external audiences

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

• Proven experience of successfully managing EIA projects (including screening and scoping), environmental assessment methods and applicable planning legislation
• Confidence when engaging with a wide variety of stakeholder groups
• The ability to work collaboratively as part of an established team, coordinating inputs from specialist technical teams
• Excellent verbal and report writing skills, including technical reviewing with an eye for detail
• Project management skills, including staff resource management and budget management
• A degree in a relevant environmental discipline (preferably a Masters degree) and an appropriate professional membership
• Willingness to travel to clients offices

The following would be a bonus:

• Chartered Environmentalist status
• Interest in line management duties and staff mentoring
• Experience of the DCO and/ or TWAO consenting regimes