Senior Environmental Manager in Edinburgh

We are searching for an experienced Senior Environmental Manager at our Bristol Temple Quay facility.

RPS is looking for a Senior Environment Manager to join our Environment & Infrastructure Team. You'll be leading on the management and delivery of some of our environmental teams key projects across the UK and helping our clients manage and obtain environmental consents including for national infrastructure schemes and renewable energy projects.

What you’ll be doing:

This is a key position where you will facilitate the integration of consents and consenting activities into project delivery, across design, assessment and construction. It’s an exciting role that will vary greatly from day to day. Some days will be spent working with our clients and attending meetings and workshops and providing advice to help manage their consent applications or compliance. Other days will be spent working with our various environmental teams with their delivery programmes and schedules. You’ll most likely find yourself either working as a project manager or project director taking responsibility for our environmental teams delivery for the projects you are working on. You’ll be the main project point of contact for our clients, manage key environmental stakeholder interfaces and will be responsible for the financial performance of your projects.

Key responsibilities:

Given the nature of the role we’re looking for someone who is highly organised, is an excellent communicator and leads projects from the front. You’ll need a strong knowledge of environmental requirements during major development and infrastructure projects in the UK. To fit in with our team we’d expect you to have a degree (or equivalent) in an environmental or related subject. An MSc or further professional qualifications would be helpful but not essential. The role would suit someone who’s led on the environmental aspects of development projects and worked in the construction sector, particularly post planning consent and during detail design and construction stages of projects. If you’ve strong experience in delivering consents under hybrid bills, DCO, TWA and TCPA planning regimes you could be very well suited to the role.

What’s in it for you?

We will provide you with a competitive salary, opportunities to invest and many other benefits including: 25 days holiday + bank holidays, option to purchase up to 5 extra days per year, company pension scheme, group disability scheme, share incentive scheme, life assurance, cycle to work scheme, health screening, employee assistance programme (including numerous wellbeing initiatives and mental health support), dental cover, professional memberships and access to BenefitHub offering discounts, cash back offers and rewards.

We’re an accredited training provider – from entry level to master’s degree level professional qualifications in leadership & management and executive coaching & mentoring, we support learning and development for everyone. A personal development plan and a transparent career pathway puts you in the driving seat of your career and you’ll be supported as far as you want to go.

We encourage and value different ideas, perspectives, and styles of thinking. We need a mix of experiences and skills to develop the most innovative ideas. We respect one another and recognise the potential and contribution of everyone. You’ll be joining a diverse community and a company that puts its people first and prioritises their wellbeing.

We understand the need to work flexibly, with agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we’re happy to talk about flexible working. This is a workplace that works for you.

A career here is far from ordinary. Here you’re not a number, you’re part of the solution.

We know we develop better solutions together. That’s why we’re committed to ensuring fairness, inclusivity, and respect in all that we do. For us to live our purpose of creating shared value and to deliver on our promise to ‘make complex easy’ – for us and for our clients, we continue to build a culture where different working styles and experiences can thrive to achieve exceptional results.

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and work in partnership with Inclusive Employers. We’re also proud to support reservists and their families, having signed the Armed Forces Covenant. An inclusive culture enables our people to do things differently, working in ways to suit them while delivering their best for RPS. That’s why we’ve created working groups as true inclusion is a journey that involves learning, collaboration, and engagement.

Please let us know if you require any adjustments during the interview process, we can then make reasonable changes to support you in performing to the best of your ability.

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