Senior Environmental Consultant in Birmingham

Do you enjoy solving real-life problems and creating a positive impact on society? Do you want to work flexibly in a way that empowers you? With Amey Consulting, you will work with high profile infrastructure organisations, giving you the unique opportunity to bring ground-breaking work to life. Your solutions will have an impact, making a genuine difference to people's lives. You will work in a growing team of passionate inclusive, open-minded individuals where your professional development can thrive.

Are you a Senior Environmental Consultant passionate about making a difference and using your skills to improve our highways environment? Do you enjoy finding innovative and sustainable solutions to protect and enhance the environment within the operational infrastructure? Amey Consulting's Highways teams impact the journeys of millions across the UK, by working in partnership with a range of clients and providing consultancy design services for Strategic Highway networks. We are passionate about the highways projects that we design and take pride in seeing our towns and cities thrive by improving connectivity, journey times and quality of life.

National Highways, formerly Highways England, has named Amey Consulting as a Design partner to support the delivery of the largest and most comprehensive renewals programme and Environment and Wellbeing Designated Funds that National Highways have ever launched. The £3.6bn Scheme Delivery Framework (SDF) enables National Highways to procure Design and Construction services across the Strategic Road Network.

The Role: We are looking to grow our capacity on the Midlands SDF contract for National Highways. The role can be based anywhere in the Midlands as Amey have multiple offices across the region as well as the ability to work remotely. We view this Senior Environmental Consultant role as a key opportunity to work collaboratively with our design teams and our National Highways clients to build, develop and lead our delivery of Environmental Assessments across all the SDF projects in the Midlands. This role would involve providing input into and review of DMRB (Design Manual for Roads and Bridges) topics including Biodiversity, Landscape, Cultural Heritage, Waste & Materials, Population and Human Health, Climate and co-ordinating environmental projects ranging from scoping reports to full environmental assessments.

In a typical week, the job role will require:

• Line manage and mentor junior team members. Together you will provide Environmental input to SDF schemes around the Midlands.
• Working together with the Senior Ecologist your main responsibilities include allocation of resources, managing programme of works to ensure delivery to agreed budgets and timescales, implementation of contractual processes, development of staff, document review and authorisation and technical training requirements.
• Input into budgets and forecasting of future work.
• Provide guidance on best methods and practice to meet technical and project requirements through close liaison with Amey designers.
• Keep up to date with industry best practice.
• Work closely with our ecologists to advise on environmental aspects of projects including but not limited to environmental assessments, ecological studies and environmental hazards.
• Undertake environmental site visits, inspections and assist in environmental surveys, to inform project designers throughout multiple disciplines (structures, geotechnical, drainage, highways).
• Prepare and review technical reports in line with all relevant legislation, technical standards and guidance.
• Liaise with statutory bodies including the Environment Agency, Natural England and Local Authorities.

We want to hear from you if you have:

• An undergraduate degree in Environmental Science or other similar/equivalent subject and must have an interest in a wide variety of environmental topics including ecology with 6+ years' experience delivering environmental assessment reporting within a consultancy environment.
• Membership of a professional body or relevant qualifications/experience leading to membership.
• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary environment interacting with all disciplines in the environment team as well as design teams, clients and stakeholders.
• Experience of working on infrastructure projects and contractual management is desirable.
• Ability to manage budgets, resourcing and plan workload, ensuring project stages are delivered on time and on budget.

What we can offer you:

• Career Development – Our dedicated progression framework identifies your career pathway and progress within the organisation, and with dedicated mentoring and support on hand to ensure you hit your career milestones. We're huge advocates for professional development and offer a recognition bonus for those achieving professional qualifications.
• Work-life Balance – Work-life balance and flexibility are key for our success. We empower our people to make choices that are right for them, with hybrid, part-time and flexible work patterns. And with a network of offices across the UK, we're open to discussing working options that suit you.
• Wellbeing – Health cash plan, 24 GP, support and assistance programmes, wellbeing ambassadors and Wellbeing Wednesday, dental vouchers.
• EDI – At Amey we celebrate our people and all that they are. This is reflected in our Affinity Group networks, providing a community of support and connection, a safe space to share experiences, learn from one another and generate ideas – Women @ Amey, NeuroDiversity, Armed Forces, Multicultural Network, Pride, Diversability and Parents & Carers.
• Social Value – You'll get 2 Community Involvement Days each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and further opportunities to support fundraising initiatives.
• Plus a range of other great perks and benefits including: Pension – Generous Pension scheme which we will contribute to; Choices – Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving and gym membership; Save with Amey – Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on shopping, days out, or nights in.

Your Career at Amey Consulting: At Amey Consulting, we value collective expertise, but also the spark one person can bring. As one of us, you can really be yourself, because your individuality is an asset. You'll be stretched, but always supported. We'll recognise your hard work and look after your well-being too. You'll be empowered to play your part and achieve, encouraged to fulfil your own ambition as well as the shared one.

Application Guidance: Amey is committed to Inclusion and Diversity. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview, if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. Please contact our recruitment team at peopleservices@amey.co.uk to discuss any access needs, reasonable adjustments or additional application support that may be required at any point during the recruitment process.