Principal Environmental Consultant

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Location/s: Brighton, Glasgow, Manchester
Recruiter contact: María Marchidan

We’re a global engineering, management and development consultancy. Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence. We are proud to be recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

The Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across several sectors including hydropower, nuclear, waste, renewable generation and transmission & distribution networks. Together we provide integrated engineering and project management services across the project lifecycle – from concept and design to construction and operations, to decommissioning or repowering and life extension. We’re helping to deliver the energy transition globally.

We’re looking for a principal-level environmental consultant to join our team. The focus will be the environmental assessment of energy projects in the UK, primarily in the nuclear, networks and energy transition sectors, with opportunities in Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. We are involved in some of the most significant generation projects in the world, including solar, hydro, wind and thermal transition technologies.

• Principal level roles in UK EIAs for energy projects (including DCO applications)
• Due diligence for a variety of energy projects
• Coordinating specialists’ inputs
• Working closely with engineering colleagues to ensure environmental considerations are made during project development
• Guiding junior team members and technically assuring their work
• Experience managing projects
• Building relationships with clients
• Managing sub-consultants
• Preparing proposals

You’ll be part of a multidisciplinary team working alongside some of the best environmental specialists, social specialists and engineers in the industry.

• Fluent in English
• Degree and Masters in an environmental subject
• Extensive experience of key roles for UK energy projects such as transmission, distribution, nuclear, hydrogen, carbon capture, solar, hydro and wind
• Involvement in DCO applications
• Able to review complex documents, summarise and present key issues clearly
• Understanding of the technical aspects of energy projects
• Ability to travel
• Strong interpersonal, communication and writing skills
• Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring junior staff
• Experience preparing proposals for new opportunities
• Able to work within a team and motivate others to deliver high standards
• Able to meet challenging budgets and timescales
• Membership of a relevant professional institute

• High standard in an environmental specialism and broader awareness of other environmental or social disciplines
• Experience of options appraisals and iterative design processes
• Experience of undertaking a range of due diligence activities
• Experience of environmental permitting
• Understanding of the technical aspects of other major infrastructure projects
• Town planning qualification

We put equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute.

Mott Mac Donald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK that do not require sponsorship.

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