Senior Consultant Water Assessments
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About The Role
Are you an environmental professional with a strong technical foundation in the water environment and a passion for delivering high-quality assessments? Do you enjoy working collaboratively across disciplines and are ready to take your next step into deeper technical coordination, client-facing work and project delivery?
Due to sustained growth, APEM’s Water Management Division is seeking a Senior Consultant – Water Assessments to join our Environmental Appraisal team. This is a varied and rewarding role that blends technical authoring, discipline coordination and project management.
You will work across water quality, hydrology, hydromorphology, flood risk, groundwater and aquatic ecology inputs, contributing to integrated assessments that shape high-impact environmental and infrastructure projects at both national and local scale.
This role offers a clear pathway towards Principal level, with growing exposure to multidisciplinary integration, client leadership and strategic environmental advisory work.
What you’ll be doing
- Authoring and contributing to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) chapters
As your confidence grows, you’ll take increasing ownership of project elements, strengthen your commercial awareness and build the leadership capability required for progression.
What we’re looking for
You’ll need to bring:
- MSc or PhD in Environmental Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Minimum three years’ experience in environmental consultancy
- Strong understanding of environmental legislation, particularly the Water Framework Directive
- Experience contributing to or coordinating water-related EIA and WFD assessments
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks or small project workstreams and deliver to tight timescales
It’s a bonus if you have:
- Experience delivering or coordinating HRA assessments
- Experience contributing to complex or high-profile projects
- Membership or working towards membership of a relevant professional body
- Experience with GIS software
- Line management or mentoring experience
- Experience supporting projects within varied consenting regimes such as DCO, TCPA or TWA
- A full UK driving licence
Next steps
We are focused on creating a diverse and inclusive team. If you can’t tick every box on our job description, then we are still keen to hear from you and are open to supporting your development. That may be working part time or supporting you to gain experience in a specific area – we are a growing company and are able to adapt roles to reflect individual skills.
If you think you have what it takes to join our fast-growing business, then please apply immediately on our website. All we need is some basic information and your CV; we will review all applications quickly and will respond to all applicants.
About Us
APEM Ltd, part of the Applus+ Group, is a leading global environmental consultancy known for scientific excellence, deep technical capability and innovative environmental solutions. Our specialists deliver marine, freshwater and terrestrial services, combined with geospatial expertise, to clients across energy, water, infrastructure and conservation sectors.
The Environmental Appraisal team works collaboratively across business units, acting as technical integrators, project leaders and strategic partners in delivering water-related assessments of national importance.
At APEM, we combine technical excellence with flexibility and wellbeing through our Ways of Working, empowering our people to thrive while delivering meaningful environmental outcomes.