Senior Consultant - Environmental Permitting

Senior Consultant - Environmental Permitting

Amentum

Multiple Locations, United Kingdom

We are seeking a Senior Consultant with environmental permitting expertise to join our expanding team. In this client-facing role, you will develop and manage best available technique (BAT) methodologies to quantify and mitigate risks associated with nuclear waste management and new build nuclear infrastructure. We welcome candidates from both consultancy and regulatory backgrounds, especially those with experience as a statutory peer reviewer in environmental permitting.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Lead, manage, and deliver environmental permit applications/authorisations focused on air quality, water quality, materials management, and waste management.
• Best Available Techniques: Develop methodologies that consider climate resilience, emissions, noise, biodiversity, water discharges, and heritage-adopting cutting-edge approaches to environmental assessments.
• Nuclear Focus: Serve as the discipline lead for environmental permitting in nuclear waste management, guiding project teams to meet technical and regulatory requirements.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate impacts, mitigation measures, and outcomes to clients, regulators, and other stakeholders. Facilitate both technical and non-technical meetings, including public consultations and client workshops.
• Project & Business Contribution: Manage and deliver inputs into safety cases, competition bids, permit variations, and planning applications. Evaluate risks and opportunities related to permitting, offering strategic insights to project stakeholders.

Here's What You'll Need

Below are the qualifications and experience that we’re seeking in applicants. We understand that not everyone will meet every single requirement, so if you believe you have most of the relevant experience and strong potential to succeed in this role, we’d love to hear from you.

• Environmental Permitting: Minimum five years’ experience leading the preparation of environmental permit applications and developing BAT/BPM studies for chemical, oil and gas, petrochemical, or waste management operations.
• Technical Expertise: Background in botany, zoology, marine sciences, geosciences, atmospheric chemistry, geology, ecology, or a related field.
• Professional Qualifications: Chartered Environmentalist, Ecologist, Chemist, Physicist, or equivalent accreditation.
• Communication & Problem-Solving: Strong interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to tackle complex challenges.
• Flexibility: Willingness to travel on business as required, including visits to overseas sites. Experience or interest in regulatory review or peer-review processes is a plus.

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