Senior Environmental Consultant

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Senior Environmental Consultant

Requisition

Do you enjoy solving real-life problems and creating a positive impact on society? Do you want to work flexibly in a way that empowers you? With Amey Consulting, you will work with high profile infrastructure organisations, giving you the unique opportunity to bring ground‑breaking work to life. Your solutions will have an impact, making a genuine difference to people’s lives. You will work in a growing team of passionate inclusive, open‑minded individuals where your professional development can thrive.

Fresh Challenge, New Opportunity

Are you a Senior Environmental Consultant passionate about making a difference and using your skills to improve our highways environment? Do you enjoy finding innovative and sustainable solutions to protect and enhance the environment within the operational infrastructure?

Amey Consulting’s Highways teams impact the journeys of millions across the UK, by working in partnership with a range of clients and providing consultancy design services for Strategic Highway networks. We are passionate about the highways projects that we design and take pride in seeing our towns and cities thrive by improving connectivity, journey times and quality of life.

National Highways, formerly Highways England, have named Amey Consulting as a Design partner to support the delivery of the largest and most comprehensive renewals programme and Environment and Wellbeing Designated Funds that National Highways have ever launched. The £3.6bn Scheme Delivery Framework (SDF) enables National Highways to procure Design and Construction services across the Strategic Road Network.

We are looking to grow our capacity on the Midlands SDF contract for National Highways. The role can be based anywhere in the Midlands as Amey have multiple offices across the region as well as the ability to work remotely. We view this Senior Environmental Consultant role as a key opportunity to work collaboratively with our design teams and our National Highways clients to build, develop and lead our delivery of Environmental Assessments across all the SDF projects in the Midlands.

This role would involve providing input into and review of DMRB (Design Manual for Roads and Bridges) topics including Biodiversity, Landscape, Cultural Heritage, Waste & Materials, Population and Human Health, Climate and co‑ordinating environmental projects ranging from scoping reports to full environmental assessments.

• Line manage and mentor junior team members. Together you will provide Environmental input to SDF schemes around the Midlands. Working together with the Senior Ecologist your main responsibilities include allocation of resources, managing programme of works to ensure delivery to agreed budgets and timescales, implementation of contractual processes, development of staff, document review and authorisation and technical training requirements.
• Input into budgets and forecasting of future work.
• Provide guidance on best methods and practice to meet technical and project requirements through close liaison with Amey designers.
• Keep up to date with industry best practice.
• Work closely with our ecologists to advise on environmental aspects of projects including but not limited to environmental assessments, ecological studies and environmental hazards.
• Undertake environmental site visits, inspections and assist in environmental surveys, to inform project designers throughout multiple disciplines (structures, geotechnical, drainage, highways).
• Prepare and review technical reports in line with all relevant legislation, technical standards and guidance.
• Liaise with statutory bodies including the Environment Agency, Natural England and Local Authorities.

• An undergraduate degree in Environmental Science or other similar/equivalent subject and must have an interest in a wide variety of environmental topics including ecology with 6+ years’ experience delivering environmental assessment reporting within a consultancy environment.
• Membership of a professional body or relevant qualifications/experience leading to…