Senior or Principal Onshore EIA Consultants (offshore renewables focus)

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 projects, utilising your environmental skills and experience to help support our clients through the EIA and consenting process? This role will provide you with this opportunity whilst working within a market leading environmental consultancy team.

About Our Environment Resilience Renewables Advisory Group:

Our Environment Resilience Renewables (ERR) Group has been providing environmental solutions for our clients for over 30 years in the UK. We offer a comprehensive range of environmental services to support all sizes and types of development. Our portfolio of offshore wind projects is considerable including high profile projects such as Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Farm (OWF), Vanguard and Boreas OWFs and Hornsea Four OWF, through to innovative projects such as the Green Volt Floating OWF. More widely the team are involved in delivering carbon management, climate resilience, locally-driven habitat enhancement and wider biodiversity net gain projects amongst others. We combine market-leading technical excellence, across the range of environmental disciplines, with a clear understanding of clients’ ambitions, needs and pressures.

We specialise in consenting, permitting and licencing support for complex infrastructure developments and operations. We have successfully supported our clients in delivering sustainable projects in sectors including renewable energy, industry, marine development and catchment management.

Due to continued success and growth in the offshore wind sector, we are looking to grow our team and are seeking Senior or Principal Onshore EIA Consultants to take up key and exciting positions helping deliver net zero.

Job Role:

We are seeking enthusiastic, optimistic, conscientious and talented people with excellent communication skills and technical ability in relation to EIA and the co-ordination and consenting of onshore aspects associated with the development of offshore wind farm projects. In this role, you will assist with the delivery of complex environmental assessment projects, including the coordination of multidisciplinary teams. Your role will involve directly working with clients, problem-solving and representing the company in client offices, regulator and stakeholder meetings.

This role might be right for you if you have:

• Demonstratable experience in the delivery of EIAs, EIA co-ordination and the consenting process
• Experience in onshore infrastructure projects with directly transferrable skills to the renewables sector
• Experience working with a variety of stakeholders
• Robust project 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
• Flexible and adaptive / innovative
  
  

What we can offer you:

Exciting. Lively. Collaborative. Dynamic. Supportive. Friendly. That’s how our colleagues describe our company. The supportive and collaborative environment Royal HaskoningDHV promotes, alongside being an independent company, sets us apart from the crowd.

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, including part time options.

About Royal HaskoningDHV:

Royal HaskoningDHV has been connecting people for 140 years. Together, through our expertise and passion, we have helped contribute to a better society and improved people’s lives with work underpinned by our sustainable values and goals. We are an independent international engineering and project management consultancy leading the way in sustainable development and innovation.

Royal HaskoningDHV is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions. Together, we are embarking on a journey where each and every one of us, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrates individual differences. We recognise that embracing diversity unlocks innovation and creativity and fosters collaboration. We want our employees to reflect the diversity of our communities and the customers we serve.

Locations:

Edinburgh, Peterborough, Manchester, London, Exeter, Newcastle, Liverpool