Senior / Principal EIA Consultant

As part of a growing and agile Environmental Planning team, the Principal Environmental Consultant will lead and coordinate EIA work across multi-disciplinary teams, collaborate with technical specialists, deliver high-quality environmental impact assessments, advise clients on environmental matters, manage project components, develop new business opportunities and mentor team members.

Role accountabilities:

• Lead coordination and delivery of environmental work undertaken by multi-disciplinary teams, influencing project development and delivering optimal environmental outcomes.
• Produce and review high-standard work, ensuring quality and compliance.
• Partner with Impact Assessment Team members across the UK.
• Proactively manage selected projects or components, allocating resources, managing subcontractors and ensuring quality assurance.
• Lead and support tender proposals/bids as part of a project-winning team.
• Provide environmental advice and support to clients, project managers and colleagues.
• Engage with consultees and stakeholders.
• Develop outstanding reports, summarising and explaining outcomes to non-technical audiences.
• Manage projects and oversee performance on technical, commercial, quality, health and safety aspects.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Good knowledge of EIA practices and solid understanding of environmental and sustainability principles.
• Experience across various project types, ideally in energy, residential/mixed-use, regeneration sectors, and major infrastructure projects such as rail and highways.
• Proven experience managing and coordinating EIA screening and scoping activities, including technical review of specialist chapters in Environmental Statements.
• Practical working knowledge of the UK planning system and consenting process.
• Strong report writing, verbal and presentation skills, with ability to review works of others for quality.
• Experience in multi-disciplinary coordination and leadership of projects, with strong project management and technical skills.
• Experience consulting and negotiating with planning authorities, regulators and stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively as part of an established team and supervise staff where required.
• Commercial expertise, including forecasting, project management and quality assurance.
• Relevant degree or equivalent qualification, preferably with chartered status or working towards.
• A valid UK driving licence.
• Desired – experience in SEA and/or Integrated Impact Assessment projects.
• Desired – knowledge and application experience of sustainability, waste or carbon assessments.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.