Senior EIA Consultant

Tetra Tech Europe is looking for a Senior Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Consultant to help us shape the future of infrastructure projects.Join our team and help deliver some of the UK’s most high-profile infrastructure projects across a range of sectors. You will support our team to deliver complex EIA work streams, including project management and delivery and you will work with our wider team to build trusted relationships with clients, stakeholders and technical specialists.

The role is hybrid and can be based in Milton Park (Oxfordshire), Cardiff or Woking
.This opportunity will suit a well-established Senior Consultant, or an experienced Consultant ready for their next step.

You will work with our clients on projects spanning renewable energy (transmission, wind, solar), data centres, urban development, airports and other nationally significant infrastructure.

As a Senior EIA Consultant, you will coordinate EIA activities from feasibility and site selection through to submission of Environmental Statements (and, in some cases, beyond to the Examination and post-consent phases). You will be able to manage smaller-scale EIA projects and advise clients regarding EIA matters such as screening. You will also form a key part of larger project teams on major infrastructure projects, gaining experience towards managing complex, high profile projects.

You will build strong relationships with internal and external technical specialists, working together to produce high quality deliverables.

Your will be responsible for coordinating multi-disciplinary inputs, managing programmes, overseeing quality and working towards developing strong client relationships. You will prepare screening and scoping reports, draft and technically review Environmental Statements/EIA Report chapters, ensuring they meet legislative requirements, industry best practice and client expectations.

You will work closely with Project Directors, Project Managers, technical specialists, graduates and junior consultants. The role also provides opportunities to contribute to bids, support budget and cost reporting, and develop your coaching and mentoring experience.

Our team has a strong track record of delivering successful consents for major projects, including the recently consented Morgan and Morecambe Offshore Wind Farm Transmission Assets, Gatwick Airport and Ayre Offshore Wind Farm onshore infrastructure.

In the short term, you will establish yourself as a trusted member of our EIA Team and a credible point of contact across project teams. You will deliver high quality EIA outputs, coordinate technical contributions and support the timely submission of planning applications and DCO documentation. You will help our team to progress projects to agreed timescales, budgets and quality standards.

You will also play an important role in mentoring graduates and junior consultants, helping to build the capability of the wider team.

As your experience develops, you will work towards leading larger infrastructure projects, providing trusted client advice and managing stakeholder engagement across complex projects and have the opportunity to lead larger infrastructure projects and progress towards Principal.

You will bring strong practical experience of working on EIA projects across a range of sectors. You will be confident producing and technically reviewing EIA deliverables, screening and scoping reports, Environmental Statements and EIA Reports.

An understanding of the Town and Country Planning EIA Regulations across the UK is essential. Knowledge of the Planning Act and Infrastructure Planning EIA Regulations would also be beneficial.

You will be able to work independently, identify technical gaps and produce clear, accurate and client-ready documentation.

You will have experience in writing clear technical reports.

The role requires a strong eye for detail, sound judgement and the ability to interpret complex environmental information. You will ensure that technical findings are presented clearly and concisely.

You will review technical inputs, ensuring that project outputs are accurate, clear, consistent and compliant with relevant requirements. Importantly, you will be able to understand whether deliverables are technically compliant and whether their content is suitable and appropriate to meet the clients particular brief. You will review…