Built Heritage Consultant in Nottingham

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World. At AECOM, we are delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here. Are you passionate about historic buildings and conserving the historic environment, with experience of heritage consulting in a UK context? Join our talented Heritage team as a Built Heritage Consultant in our growing Croydon, Leeds, Newcastle, or Nottingham offices (other locations will be considered), as well as taking advantage of our flexible hybrid working model.

At AECOM, we deliver exceptional projects through long-term partnerships with key clients. This position offers you an opportunity to be involved on a range of projects, particularly in our growing renewables market. We are specifically looking for an experienced consultant who thrives in a collaborative team environment, willing to contribute to some of the country’s major infrastructure projects from a built heritage perspective – contributing to design teams and delivering high quality work.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Provide Expertise

• Analysing and assessing the significance of designated and non-designated built heritage assets and designed landscapes
• Analysing and assessing the contribution that setting makes to the significance of a heritage asset and how this may be affected
• Communicating consenting risks and opportunities in a heritage context
• Providing constructive design and mitigation advice on built heritage aspects of major infrastructure schemes
• Maintaining professionalism and excellence through strong writing skills and behaviours
• Monitoring of budgets and workloads to ensure that projects are delivered on time and within budget
• Liaising effectively with managers, stakeholders and other consultants as required, alongside effective and engaging consultation with statutory and non‑statutory consultees

• Delivering, or contributing to, desk-based technical reports such as desk-based assessments, heritage statements, environmental impact assessments and characterisation studies
• Undertaking research and site visits to inform heritage assessments and setting assessments
• Contributing to statutory consultations and liaising with stakeholders alongside other experienced members of our team
• Undertaking on site monitoring visits and building recording alongside other experienced members of our team

• Work closely with clients and AECOM counterparts to secure stakeholder buy‑in for solutions, while contributing to AECOM's broader technical capabilities and innovative approaches
• Providing optioneering and design advice to client teams alongside other experienced members of our team
• Working with the wider EIA team, contributing to impact assessments, including Environment Statements

If you’re passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don’t just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives.

Come grow with us. Become part of our dynamic Environment & Energy business, which has multi disciplinary experts across the UK & Ireland, including 26 heritage specialists across the UK with specialisms in Archaeology, Historic Landscape and Built Heritage. Collaborate with clients such as National Grid, SSEN, Low Carbon, Severn Trent Water and Harbour Energy to name a few. Projects include Grid modernisation projects, solar farms, water.