Principal EIA Consultant

• Legal Entity: AECOM Infrastructure and Environment UK Limited
• Business Line:
  Environment
• Work Location Model:
  Hybrid
• Operating Group:
  International
• Primary
  
  Location:
  
  UK - Cardiff, Callaghan Square

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Are you passionate about improving the environmental performance of infrastructure development projects and helping the UK to deliver its net zero commitments? If so, we’d love to hear from you at AECOM.

We’re looking for a Principal EIA consultant to join our national team, based from our growing office in Cardiff while also benefiting from our flexible hybrid working model.

By joining us you will work daily with technical experts within our established Environmental Impact (EIA) team which comprises over 165 staff across the UK and Ireland.

As we are a national team we have colleagues based in our officeacross UK&I Basingstoke, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Chesterfield, Cork, Croydon, Dublin, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London Aldgate, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, St Albans and Warrington

We are a founding member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) EIA Quality Mark, whilst everything we do aligns with our environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy.

At AECOM, we’re at the forefront of innovation, delivering an exceptional portfolio of projects brought through long-term partnerships with key clients. This position offers an opportunity to manage environmental inputs to large-scale development projects that are transforming our infrastructure – this includes:

• Energy generation projects, including carbon capture and storage, hydrogen and renewables (such as large scale solar and floating offshore wind)
• Energy distribution and transmission projects (including projects forming part of the Great Grid Upgrade)
• Strategic national and regional rail projects
• Highway improvements and greenway projects
• Developments within the ecommerce, minerals and waste, water, defence, aviation, commercial/ residential and industrial sectors

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Provide Expertise:As anPrincipal Environmental Consultantyou’ll manage environmental inputs to EIA screening and scoping reports, environmental assessments/ Environmental Statements (and in the future Environmental Outcomes Reports) and supporting documents, including the technical review of specialist chapters. You’ll be involved in all project life stages, from early strategy development and site identification studies, through feasibility, optioneering/ option selection, outline design, to detailed design, discharging of conditions, construction, and scheme operation/ maintenance.
  
  You’ll have the opportunity to work across a portfolio of development projects covering multiple consenting regimes (DCO, TCPA, TWA, hybrid Bill etc.).
• Ensure Quality:Your role requires a critical eye for detail to ensure that our deliverables are produced to the highest quality standards and compliance with our rigorous quality management procedures.
• Project Management:Make effective use of your project management skills, appropriately managing resources and budgets (with support as applicable).
• Collaborate:You will working as part of integrated design teams to improve the environmental…