Principal Environmental Consultant - EIA Projects

Overview

In this Principal Environmental Consultant role, you guide environmental inputs across EIA workstreams for major infrastructure projects in the UK&I. You’ll lead multidisciplinary coordination, ensuring high-quality, compliant deliverables and strong client relationships. You’ll work within integrated design teams to identify constraints and mitigation opportunities while supporting growth through business development. The role offers hybrid, flexible working across multiple offices, and engagement with leading ESG-aligned projects.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid work options
• flexible working model
• well-being programs
• Disability Confident Employer
• equal opportunity employer
• Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office

Responsibilities

• Manage environmental inputs to EIA screening, scoping, and Environmental Statements, plus future Environmental Outcomes Reports; review specialist chapters
• Support all project life stages from strategy to operation and site selection across various consenting regimes (DCO, TCPA, TWA, hybrid Bill)
• Ensure deliverables meet high quality standards and QA procedures
• Manage resources and budgets within project management responsibilities
• Collaborate within integrated design teams to identify constraints, mitigation options, and opportunities for environmental benefits
• Maintain client relationships and coordinate internal supply teams
• Promote AECOM’s environmental services and lead business development, including fee and technical proposal development

Key requirements

• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary environmental inputs to infrastructure projects
• Strong knowledge of EIA, environmental assessment methods, planning legislation, and consenting regimes; DCO/TWAO experience a bonus
• Experience delivering consultancy services with project management skills (programming, resourcing, budgeting) and coordinating specialist inputs
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; confident with stakeholders and capable in verbal, report writing, and technical review
• Degree in a relevant environmental discipline; Masters preferred; professional membership; Chartered Environmentalist advantageous
• Willingness to travel and work flexibly across projects and stakeholder groups
• collaborative
• stakeholder engagement
• clear communication
• EIA
• environmental assessment methods
• planning legislation

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