Location
Flexible UK locations including London, Basingstoke, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Chesterfield, Croydon, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, St Albans, Warrington. Hybrid working model available.

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience

About the Role
Are you passionate about improving the environmental performance of infrastructure development projects and helping the UK deliver its net zero commitments? Join AECOM’s established Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) team of over 165 professionals across the UK and Ireland. As a Senior EIA Consultant, you will provide technical expertise and coordinate environmental inputs to EIA screening and scoping reports, Environmental Statements, and supporting documents. You will be involved throughout all project stages, from early strategy and site identification, through feasibility, optioneering, design, construction, and operation phases.

You will work across a diverse portfolio of large-scale development projects including energy generation (carbon capture, hydrogen, renewables such as solar and offshore wind), energy distribution and transmission (including Great Grid Upgrade projects), carbon capture pipelines, strategic rail projects, highway improvements, regeneration developments, and projects in ecommerce, minerals and waste, water, defence, aviation, commercial, residential, and industrial sectors.

Your role will include ensuring the highest quality of deliverables, developing project management skills by coordinating resources and budgets, collaborating with integrated design teams to improve environmental outcomes, and maintaining direct client contact. You will also support business development activities and promote AECOM’s environmental services internally and externally.

At AECOM, you will thrive in an inclusive, forward-thinking environment with access to career development opportunities, technical practice networks, AECOM University, volunteering days, and a flexible hybrid working model to support work-life balance. Join us to be part of a global team delivering transformational projects that uplift communities and create sustainable legacies.

Experience
- Proven EIA consultancy experience including coordinating preparation of environmental reports and technical review of specialist chapters.
- Experience working across multiple consenting regimes (DCO, TCPA, TWA, hybrid Bill) is desirable.
- Developing project management skills including programming and budget management.
- Strong verbal and report writing skills with confidence engaging diverse stakeholder groups.

About you
- Collaborative team player able to coordinate inputs from specialist technical teams.
- Committed to innovation and continuing professional development.
- Passionate about environmental sustainability and delivering high-quality outcomes.
- Ability to work flexibly across UK locations and hybrid working model.

Qualifications
- Degree in a relevant environmental discipline, preferably a Masters.
- Appropriate professional membership (e.g., IEMA) is required.
- Experience with DCO and/or TWAO consenting regimes is beneficial but not essential.