Senior Environmental Consultant

RPS is looking for a Senior Environmental Consultant to join our Environment & Infrastructure Team. This role can be based at multiple locations across the UK on a permanent, full time or part time basis. Your primary role will be supporting the environmental compliance and consent applications of infrastructure schemes including renewables. RPS is a leading global multi-disciplinary consultancy and we specialise in all areas of the built and natural environment, shaping the future of our environmental, social and economic landscapes.

Your role: This is a key position where you will facilitate the integration of environmental aspects of consents and consenting activities into project delivery, across design, assessment and construction. The Environment Manager is responsible for:

• Management and delivery of multiple and multi-disciplinary consents applications
• Working with clients and design teams to identify all relevant environmental consents required and advise on their management
• Advising client of environmental risks during pre-consenting, design and construction of projects
• Identifying consents and assessments required with stakeholders, regulators and client and negotiate agreements
• Scheduling of priority activities and deliverables and managing or coordinating environmental site teams
• Coordinate and chair relevant technical meetings with planning, design and environment teams, stakeholders and client teams
• Produce high quality documents for submission to determining authority
• Plan integration of consent conditions into design and working methodology
• Communicate consent requirements to site teams/client/technical teams
• Audit of consent conditions and compliance

Your skills and experience:

• You’ll have a relevant degree (or equivalent) or MSc in environment and ideally chartered (CEnv, MIEMA, MCIWEM, CSci).
• Be conversant in project planning and delivery of environmental aspects to satisfy planning requirements or conditions
• Experienced in design and build stage of projects either as part of a contractor’s design team or working on behalf of the client
• Demonstrable delivery of consent programme on major UK infrastructure projects
• Experience delivering multi-disciplinary consent activities across (but not limited to) – water, biodiversity, cultural heritage and contaminated land remediation.
• Knowledge and experience delivering consents under hybrid Bill, DCO, TWA and TCPA planning regimes
• Experience with environmental impact assessments
• Understanding of issues around consenting and risks to design process, with experience integrating consent requirements into design
• Confident communicator to work with a range of clients, stakeholders and project teams
• Career expertise in multiple sectors desirable (rail, highways, energy, water)
• Environment, multi sector delivery, major infrastructure, understanding of complex planning routes (TWA, hybrid Bill, DCO, TCPA)
• Experience working with NEC3/4 contracts would be advantageous but not essential

What we offer you: We will provide you with a flexible, friendly and creative environment to develop your skills and challenge yourself. Via our robust career development framework, we are proud to be able to support our people to innovate, collaborate and build meaningful careers. Our network of people and knowledge will expand your horizons and give you access to a variety of interesting projects across the UK. Our employees are rewarded with competitive salaries, opportunities to invest and many other benefits including: 25 days holiday + bank holidays, Option to purchase up to 5 extra days per year, Private Health Cover, Hybrid Working, 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, Gadget Insurance Professional Memberships and access to BenefitHub offering discounts, cash back offers and rewards.

We know we develop better solutions together. That’s why we’re committed to ensuring Fairness, Inclusivity, and Respect in all that we do. For us to live our purpose of creating shared value and to deliver on our promise to ‘make complex easy’ – for us and for our clients, we continue to build a culture where different working styles and experiences can thrive to achieve exceptional results. 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. An inclusive culture enables our people to do things differently, working in ways to suit them while delivering their best for RPS. That’s why we’ve created working groups as true inclusion is a journey that involves learning, collaboration, and engagement.

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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