Senior Environmental Consents Consultant

As part of our continued growth, we are seeking a Senior Environmental Consents Consultant to strengthen our environmental planning, consents management and project delivery capability. This is an onsite role supporting the delivery of a major infrastructure programmes, with a focus on ensuring compliance with Development Consent Orders (DCOs), environmental consents, commitments and regulatory obligations. Working within multidisciplinary project teams, you will help coordinate consent requirements, monitor compliance and support effective engagement with delivery teams, contractors and stakeholders.

You will play an important role in ensuring that environmental consents and commitments are effectively managed throughout the project lifecycle, helping teams deliver works in line with approved requirements, statutory obligations and client governance frameworks. You will support the coordination, implementation and assurance of consents activities across complex infrastructure projects.

• Support the coordination and delivery of project consents in line with DCO requirements, environmental commitments, relevant legislation and statutory frameworks.
• Maintain Consents and Commitments Registers, ensuring requirements, actions and obligations are tracked and effectively managed.
• Support the preparation of consent applications, approvals, reports, appraisals and supporting technical documentation.
• Support post-consent activities, including discharge of requirements, approvals and certification processes.
• Monitor onsite activities against consented scope and identify potential deviations or compliance issues for escalation.

• Provide onsite support to ensure project activities comply with environmental consents, permits, commitments and regulatory requirements.
• Apply knowledge of planning, environmental and infrastructure legislation relevant to major projects.
• Support environmental assurance activities, inspections, reviews and compliance monitoring.
• Ensure project outputs align with statutory obligations, industry standards and client governance processes.
• Support the implementation of Integrated Management System (IMS) procedures and controls.

• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, delivery partners and contractors to support successful project delivery.
• Track consent-related deliverables and actions against key programme milestones.
• Identify risks within your scope and escalation where appropriate.
• Contribute to project risk identification and management processes.

• Support engagement with internal teams, delivery partners, regulators and external stakeholders.
• Assist with technical coordination between project teams to ensure consent requirements are understood and embedded.
• Contribute to meetings, workshops and presentations, ensuring information is communicated clearly and effectively.

• Produce high-quality, well-structured consents and environmental documentation to support project delivery.
• Ensure work is reviewed and checked prior to submission or issue.
• Maintain compliance with IMS procedures, governance requirements and security standards.

This is an excellent opportunity to join Assystem’s growing infrastructure team and contribute to the successful delivery of complex, nationally significant projects by ensuring environmental consents and commitments are effectively managed throughout delivery.