Associate Director EIA

Company Description

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Job Description

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 - this includes:

• Energy generation projects, including carbon capture and storage, hydrogen and renewables (solar and wind)
• 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

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: Lead multidisciplinary environmental inputs across a wide range of projects, helping our clients gain development consent. This includes leading the preparation of EIA screening letters, Scoping Reports and Environmental Statements, requiring the technical review of specialist chapters. Managing resources, delegating activities, monitoring and managing project budgets.
• Collaborate: Work 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.
• Create: Lead and support business opportunities and associated fee and technical proposal development.
• Inspire: Support staff development and mentoring.
• Champion: Promote AECOM’s environmental services to both internal and external audiences.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Here’s what we’re looking for: To apply for this role, you’ll need to be able to demonstrate interest and experience of coordinating multidisciplinary environmental inputs to infrastructure development projects. You should have:

• Proven experience of successfully managing EIA projects, environmental assessment methods and applicable planning legislation.
• The 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.

Additional Information

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at AECOM. We value everyone’s unique contributions and perspectives. If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you.