Consultant / Senior Environment Consultant – Industrial Permitting / Due Diligence

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

12/2/2024

Are you looking for your next career step ? Do you want the opportunity to work on a broad range of industrial projects, using your skills and experience to help support our clients with your consenting, compliance, EIA and sustainability expertise ? This role will provide you with these opportunities whilst working within a market leading environmental consultancy team.

About Our Environment Advisory Group:

Our Environment Group has been providing environmental solutions for our clients for over 30 years in the UK.

We specialise in consenting and planning support for complex infrastructure developments and operations and have successfully supported our clients in delivering sustainable development projects in the energy, industry, and marine sectors, both in the UK and internationally.

Our comprehensive range of environmental services has supported, and continues to support, a wide range of development sizes and types including several high-profile infrastructure projects:

• Boston Energy from Waste Facility
• Woodsmith Crop Nutrients Mine
• Havant Thicket Reservoir
• Sizewell C Nuclear Power Station
• Dragon LNG Facility
  
  

Our services and solutions also include, environmental due diligence, hazardous substances consents and COMAH Notifications, post-consent compliance and carbon management and climate resilience. We combine market-leading technical excellence, across the range of environmental disciplines, with a clear understanding of clients’ ambitions, needs and pressures.

Due to continued growth in a variety of markets including the energy transition, industry, and water sectors, we are looking to grow our team and are seeking talented individuals to provide resilience and a spread of specialist knowledge.

Job Role:

We are seeking an enthusiastic, optimistic, conscientious, and talented individual with excellent communication skills and technical ability in relation to industrial permitting / due diligence / hazardous substances assessment.

The successful applicant will be expected to lead and assist with the delivery of complex permitting and environmental impact assessment projects, working both independently and within multidisciplinary teams . The role will involve working directly with clients, problem-solving and representing the company in client offices, and regulator and stakeholder meetings, as well as providing technical guidance and support to the permitting team and wider Environment Group.

This role might be right for you if you have:

Demonstratable experience in some of the delivery of the following areas:

• Environmental permitting and post-consent support
• Environmental Impact Assessments for industrial projects
• Environmental compliance and due diligence
• Hazardous substances consents and COMAH Notifications
• Experience working with a variety of regulators and stakeholders
• Robust project management and financial management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication, organisational, analytical and time management skills
• Good interpersonal skills
  
  

And if you are:

• Dependable, pro-active, and self-motivated
• Seeking a new challenge
• Flexible, adaptive and innovative
  
  

Location:

While our preference would be Newcastle, Manchester, Edinburgh and London, we would also consider Birmingham, Brighton, Liverpool, and Peterborough for the right candidate.

What we offer you:

Ambitious. Exciting. Flexible. Collaborative. Dynamic. That’s how our colleagues describe our company. Want to contribute to Enhancing Society with your expertise? Be part of an open network where you’re connected with the brightest and smartest people and technologies? Join us!

You can look forward to growing your career in a dynamic workplace with development opportunities and support on your career path. We have flexible working models to ensure a balance of family and working life.