Environmental Consultant

Joining Arup

Dedicated to sustainable development, Arup is a collective of designers, advisors and experts working globally. Founded to be humane and excellent, we collaborate with our clients and partners using imagination, technology, and rigour to shape a better world.

As part of the Climate and Sustainability Services business, Arup's environment team lead and deliver Environmental Impact Assessments, working with a variety of technical disciplines on nationally significant projects. These include renewable energy projects such as the Ocean Winds Offshore Wind EIA, transport projects such as West Yorkshire Mass Transit Environmental Partner and critical infrastructure projects such as Great Grid Upgrade and Thames Tideway plus many more.

We are seeking consultants who have a curious mindset, want to deliver technical excellence and take a lead on the major cross-cutting environmental agenda, helping to embed environment and sustainability into the projects we deliver.

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The Opportunity

The position is for an Environmental Consultant to be based in our Glasgow or Edinburgh office and focused on delivering environmental impact assessments for major national infrastructure projects in transport, water and energy across the UK. Clients will range from renewable energy developers to public sector authorities and from large organisations to start-ups. You will be working in a global multi-disciplinary team alongside other environmental, planning, engineering and urban design specialists to deliver industry-leading environment and sustainability consultancy services.

Your remit will be to undertake technical work, supporting technical leads on projects, assisting teams with proposal preparation and supporting the team leaders in delivering major projects. You will be responsible for:

Writing sections of environmental reports including EIA screening letters, EIA scoping reports, non-technical sections of Environmental Statements. Supporting the review of technical inputs for alignment with project details and EIA compliance. Inputting to environmental design and applying environmental-led design principles. Interfacing with project teams both internal and external. Communicating and liaising with clients. Contributing to bids and presentations.

At Arup, you will belong to an extraordinary collective where we encourage a curious mindset and individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share, and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas.

You will have the opportunity do socially useful work that has meaning to the clients and communities we serve and to your career, to our members and Arup.

Is this role right for you?

We are looking for people with:

• Education to degree level, preferably a master's degree.

• Member of an appropriate institute, full membership or working towards full membership. This could include the Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals (ISEP) or equivalent.

• Have some experience in coordinating EIAs, successfully working with teams of technical specialists and multi-disciplinary teams

• An understanding of environmental legislation, and some experience of applying relevant legislation, policy and guidance in respect to impact assessment for a range of project types

Not ready to apply just yet, or have some questions? Please email Karin Spies at . Please note, to ensure we remain GDPR compliant do not send your CV directly to us via this email.

What we offer you:

At Arup, we care about each member's success, so we can grow together.

Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognizes the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive - through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.

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