Technical Director: Environment Impact Assessment

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Are you passionate about improving the environmental performance of infrastructure development projects?

If so, we’d love to hear from you at AECOM.

We are recruiting an experienced Technical Director Environment to join our Environment & Sustainability business that has over 650 staff across the UK and Ireland. As we are a national team, we are flexible in terms of location – this includes our offices in Basingstoke, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Chesterfield, Croydon, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London Aldgate, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, St Albans, Warrington. However, do get in touch if this does not work for you because, for the right candidate, we’ll explore other options. We would welcome interest from candidates looking for either a part-time or full-time position.

As a Technical Director you’ll lead multidisciplinary environmental inputs to large-scale development projects that are transforming our infrastructure and helping the UK achieve its net zero goals - this includes:

• Energy generation projects, including carbon capture and storage, hydrogen and renewables (solar and wind)
• Energy distribution and transmission projects (including international connectors)
• Strategic national and regional rail projects
• Highway improvements and greenway projects
• Regeneration projects, including portside developments
• Developments within the ecommerce, minerals and waste, water, defence, aviation, commercial/ residential and industrial sectors

As a Technical Director you’ll lead environmental inputs across all project life stages, from early strategy development and site identification studies, through feasibility, optioneering/ option selection, outline design, to detailed design, discharging of conditions, construction, and scheme operation/ maintenance. You will have the opportunity to work across a portfolio of development projects covering multiple consenting regimes (DCO, TCPA, TWA, hybrid Bill etc.). You will also play an instrumental role in helping to seek out and secure new commissions, and be actively engaged in client relationship management.

You will work daily with technical experts within our established Environmental Impact team. We are a founding member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) EIA Quality Mark, whilst everything we do aligns with our environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy.

Your role will include:

• Expertise: Lead and direct multidisciplinary environmental inputs across a wide range of projects, helping our clients gain development consent. This includes the technical review and verification of environment report inputs, as well as directing staff resources and budgets (with support as applicable)
• Collaborate: Work as part of integrated design teams to identify environmental constraints, avoid impacts and develop solutions in accordance with the mitigation hierarchy, as well as delivering benefits where possible
• Create: Lead and support business opportunities and associated fee and technical proposal development. Active engagement with our clients and ongoing client relationship management
• Inspire: Active role in staff development and mentoring
• Champion: Promote AECOM’s environmental services to both internal and external audiences

Requirements

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

To apply for this will role, you’ll need to be able to demonstrate experience of directing and managing multidisciplinary environmental inputs to infrastructure development projects. You should have:

• Experience of leading consultancy services
• An excellent understanding of the EIA processes, environmental assessment methods
• A detailed understanding of relevant consenting and licensing regimes
• Confidence when engaging with a wide variety of stakeholder groups and clients
• The ability to work collaboratively as part of an established team, leading inputs from specialist technical teams
• Excellent verbal and report writing skills, including technical reviewing
• Project director skills, including programming, staff resource and budget management
• A degree in a relevant environmental discipline (preferably a Masters degree) and an appropriate professional membership
• Willingness to travel

The following would be a bonus:

• Chartered Environmentalist status
• Interest in line management duties and staff mentoring
• Experience of the DCO and/ or TWAO consenting regimes