Senior Environmental Consultant

Senior Environmental Consultant

40,000 to 55,000 + company car + benefits

Hybrid working - South UK-based

Are you ready to lead Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) support during design on complex infrastructure projects? Do you enjoy turning environmental risk and compliance into practical, measurable improvements?

We're looking for a Principal Environmental Consultant to join a leading UK Principal Contractor, turnover in excess of 2bn. This is an opportunity to play a leading role in the environmental delivery of major infrastructure projects across the UK, helping to shape environmental strategy from design through to delivery, joining an existing team of over 30 environmental professionals.

This is a hybrid role, with offices based across Oxfordshire, Beaconsfield, Bristol, Exeter, Cambridge, Suffolk, Ipswich, Luton or Winchester.

• Provide environmental advice and support across key project stages, coordinating internal and external inputs
• Deliver/oversee EIA processes, ensuring high-quality outputs and compliance through to handover to delivery
• Embed carbon reduction, nature-based and climate resilience solutions through stakeholder engagement
• Lead technical review and support assessment, consents and sustainability inputs on complex projects

• Degree qualified in an environmental or related discipline
• Working knowledge of EIA processes, assessment methods and relevant planning legislation
• Proven experience delivering environmental assessments, consents and sustainability inputs across complex projects
• Strong report writing, technical review and project management skills; confident stakeholder engagement and UK driving licence

If this sounds like the role for you, you require further information or you would like to apply, please contact Alex Lee on or (phone number removed). Job Reference - AL 4753

Irwin and Colton is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion please let us know if we can do anything to make the process more accessible to you.