About the position
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 Environmental Consultants to join as an Associate EIA Director. Our Environment & Sustainability business has over 650 staff working across the UK and Ireland. As we are a national team, we are flexible in terms of location - this includes our offices in Basingstoke, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Chesterfield, Croydon, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London Aldgate, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, St Albans, Warrington. We would welcome interest from candidates looking for either a part-time or full-time position. As an Associate EIA Director you'll lead and manage multidisciplinary environmental inputs to large-scale development projects that are transforming our infrastructure and helping the UK achieve its net zero goals.
Responsibilities
- Lead multidisciplinary environmental inputs across a wide range of projects, helping our clients gain development consent.
- Prepare EIA screening letters, Scoping Reports and Environmental Statements, requiring the technical review of specialist chapters.
- Manage resources, delegate activities, and monitor project budgets.
- Work as part of integrated design teams to identify environmental constraints, avoid impacts and develop solutions.
- Lead and support business opportunities and associated fee and technical proposal development.
- Support staff development and mentoring.
- Promote AECOM's environmental services to both internal and external audiences.
Requirements
- Proven experience of successfully managing EIA projects, environmental assessment methods and applicable planning legislation.
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of an established team, coordinating inputs from specialist technical teams.
- Confidence when engaging with a wide variety of stakeholder groups.
- Excellent verbal and report writing skills, including technical reviewing with an eye for detail.
- Project management skills, including staff resource and budget management.
- A degree in a relevant environmental discipline (preferably a Masters degree) and an appropriate professional membership.
- Willingness to occasionally travel to client offices.
- Chartered Environmentalist status.
- Interest in line management duties and staff mentoring.
- Experience of the DCO and/or TWAO consenting regimes.
Benefits
- Flexible work options including hybrid work.
- Access to industry-leading technology and thinking.
- Transformational work with big impact.
- Diverse compensation, benefits and well-being programs.
