Location
Edinburgh, with flexibility to work from other UK office locations including Basingstoke, Cambridge, and Leeds.

Hours
Full Time - Hybrid working model offering flexibility between office, remote, and client site work.

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Join AECOM's dynamic Nature team as an Associate Director - Environmental and Ecological Compliance Lead, providing technical leadership for Ecological Clerk of Works (ECoW) and Environmental Clerk of Works (EnvCoW) services across the UK & Ireland. You will lead and grow a nationally significant environmental compliance service, building and managing a high-quality network of specialist delivery partners. Your role will focus on quality assurance, supply chain development, and creating a scalable environmental compliance business to support some of the UK's largest infrastructure projects.

Working closely with contractors, developers, and project teams, you will help clients deliver planning, Development Consent Order (DCO), and environmental consent commitments during construction. You will act as a senior technical authority and lead verifier for environmental compliance activities, ensuring projects are appropriately resourced, mobilised, and delivered to AECOM's quality standards.

Additional responsibilities include developing and implementing a UK & Ireland supply chain strategy for ECoW, EnvCoW, and wider environmental compliance services, supporting the growth of secondary consents service lines, and expanding Clerk of Works services such as arboriculture and archaeology through integrated environmental compliance solutions.

Become part of AECOM's industry-leading Environment Business Line, collaborating with specialists in ecology, environmental assessment, nature-based solutions, arboriculture, archaeology, impact assessment, and environmental management. This role offers the opportunity to shape a growing and strategically important service area while working on major infrastructure and DCO programmes across the UK.

Experience
- Delivering Environmental and/or Ecological Clerk of Works (ECoW) services on major infrastructure, utilities, or development projects.
- Strong understanding of construction-phase ecological and environmental compliance requirements.
- Experience working directly with contractors and construction delivery teams.
- Knowledge of environmental and ecological secondary consents, including planning conditions, Development Consent Orders (DCOs), environmental permits, and protected species licensing.
- Experience reviewing, assuring, and approving environmental compliance deliverables.
- Managing subcontractors, suppliers, or specialist delivery partners.
- Supporting business development, client engagement, and work winning activities with strong commercial awareness.

About you
Credible ecological professional with the ability to act as a technical lead and quality reviewer for ECoW services. Collaborative and motivated to grow a nationally significant environmental compliance service. Committed to delivering high-quality outcomes and fostering strong partnerships across multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications
Membership of CIEEM or an equivalent professional body, preferably chartered or working towards chartership. A commitment to continuous professional development and industry leadership.