Senior Environmental Consultant

Senior Environmental Consultant

RPS Group

Multiple Locations, United Kingdom

RPS is looking for a Senior Environmental Consultant to join our Environment & Infrastructure Team. This role can be based at multiple locations across the UK on a permanent, full time or part time basis. Your primary role will be supporting the environmental compliance and consent applications of infrastructure schemes including renewables. RPS is a leading global multi-disciplinary consultancy and we specialise in all areas of the built and natural environment, shaping the future of our environmental, social and economic landscapes.

Your role:

This is a key position where you will facilitate the integration of environmental aspects of consents and consenting activities into project delivery, across design, assessment and construction. The Environment Manager is responsible for:

• Management and delivery of multiple and multi-disciplinary consents applications;
• Working with clients and design teams to identify all relevant environmental consents required and advise on their management;
• Advising client of environmental risks during pre-consenting, design and construction of projects;
• Identifying consents and assessments required with stakeholders, regulators and client and negotiate agreements;
• Scheduling of priority activities and deliverables and managing or coordinating environmental site teams;
• Coordinate and chair relevant technical meetings with planning, design and environment teams, stakeholders and client teams;
• Produce high quality documents for submission to determining authority;
• Plan integration of consent conditions into design and working methodology;
• Communicate consent requirements to site teams/client/technical teams;
• Audit of consent conditions and compliance.

Your skills and experience:

• You’ll have a relevant degree (or equivalent) or MSc in environment and ideally chartered (CEnv, MIEMA, MCIWEM, CSci);
• Be conversant in project planning and delivery of environmental aspects to satisfy planning requirements or conditions;
• Experienced in design and build stage of projects either as part of a contractor’s design team or working on behalf of the client;
• Demonstrable delivery of consent programme on major UK infrastructure projects;
• Experience delivering multi-disciplinary consent activities across (but not limited to) – water, biodiversity, cultural heritage and contaminated land remediation;
• Knowledge and experience delivering consents under hybrid Bill, DCO, TWA and TCPA planning regimes;
• Experience with environmental impact assessments;
• Understanding of issues around consenting and risks to design process, with experience integrating consent requirements into design;
• Confident communicator to work with a range of clients, stakeholders and project teams Career expertise in multiple sectors desirable (rail, highways, energy, water);
• Environment, multi sector delivery, major infrastructure, understanding of complex planning routes (TWA, hybrid Bill, DCO, TCPA);
• Experience working with NEC3/4 contracts would be advantageous but not essential.

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