Overview
In this role you will advance your archaeology consultancy career within AECOM’s Heritage team. You’ll support development projects across sectors, delivering heritage input from desk assessments to planning support, across the UK and internationally. You will collaborate with clients and discipline leads to ensure high-quality outcomes, while benefiting from training and a supportive, knowledge-sharing culture. This is a hybrid, flexible opportunity with real impact on infrastructure and environments. You will help shape heritage strategy within large projects and DCO delivery.
Pay / Benefits
- hybrid work options
- training and mentoring
- well-being programs
- career development
- inclusive culture
- global collaboration
Responsibilities
- Prepare desk-based assessments, Heritage Statements, ES Chapters, and planning documents to high standards
- Undertake quality assurance on reporting (desk-based assessments, Environmental Statements)
- Mentor and train Consultant-grade staff and provide task-specific guidance
- Chair statutory consultation meetings and coordinate with clients and stakeholders
- Collaborate with clients, colleagues, and other discipline leads to deliver projects
- Contribute ideas to enhance the Heritage team’s offering and participate in training workshops
- Support development of sector expertise working groups
- Assist with delivery of archaeological planning processes including field evaluation and mitigation design and DCO projects
Key requirements
- Proven track record in Cultural Heritage desk-based assessments and planning documentation
- Understanding and experience of heritage consultancy and UK planning system
- Experience in archaeological planning process, field evaluation, and mitigation design
- Experience with DCO project delivery from initiation to post-consent mitigation
- Experience in setting assessments of heritage assets
- Ability to arrange and chair statutory consultation meetings
- Formal QA of heritage reporting and Environmental Statements
- Excellent communication skills and technical/analytical capability
- Relevant degree and/or postgraduate qualification in archaeology
- Chartered membership of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists or equivalent
- Excellent communication
- Collaborative mindset
- Mentoring and training aptitude
- Heritage consultancy knowledge
- Understanding of UK planning system and archaeology
- Field evaluation and mitigation design
Senior Heritage Consultant in London employer: AECOM
At AECOM, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment that fosters innovation and collaboration. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through our extensive career development opportunities, flexible hybrid working model, and a culture that values diversity and inclusion. Join us in the South East, where you can make a meaningful impact on transport planning while enjoying a range of personalised benefits tailored to support your well-being and professional aspirations.
