Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

Air transport is vital to the economy and the daily lives of millions—regionally, nationally, and globally. At WSP, we draw on experience from working on over 8,000 aviation projects for over 350 national and international airports in over 40 countries. We are also proud administrators of ACI’s Airport Carbon Accreditation programme, reinforcing our commitment to sustainable aviation.

As one of the largest environmental consultancies in the UK, you’ll get the opportunity to contribute to landmark aviation projects and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. You’ll be encouraged to explore new ideas in a culture that values curiosity and diverse perspectives.

With the continued growth of the UK aviation sector comes increased scrutiny and a more complex consenting environment. As a Senior or Principal Consultant in our Environmental Consents team in London, you’ll play a role in navigating this landscape—supporting airport expansion through strategic planning, environmental advice, and technical studies. You’ll contribute to some of the UK’s most significant and transformative aviation infrastructure projects, delivering services such as planning applications, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), airspace change proposals, and support for Development Consent Order (DCO) examinations and planning inquiries.

This is a post of strategic significance for our business and represents a challenging and exciting opportunity to identify, win and deliver multi-disciplinary inputs for aviation projects. We need people with creative spirit, a dedicated approach and a solid grounding in environmental design, assessment and management at any stage of the development project lifecycle.

As a Senior or Principal Consultant, you will collaborate with a diverse team of technical specialists and design professionals to manage environmental contributions across project designs and assessments. You will be instrumental in improving the environmental performance for a range of aviation projects.

The role would suit an enthusiastic individual looking to influence, manage and deliver environmental elements of aviation projects. You will have responsibility for managing projects including tasks relating to bidding, project team management, project delivery, and financial management.

Key responsibilities include managing the delivery of a diverse range of environmental inputs into aviation projects including planning applications, EIA, airspace change proposals, and support for DCO examinations and/or planning inquiries; delivering environmental inputs such as EIA screening requests and scoping reports, environmental constraints studies, environmental management plans and Environmental Statements; building relationships with clients and identifying opportunities to provide support in areas such as resourcing, programming, strategy development and project delivery; undertaking activities to secure new work including preparing proposals, contributing to strategic-bid preparation, and participating in business development opportunities; supporting the development of innovative techniques to shape the way we do our business whether through Digital EIA, Technical Excellence, Future Ready EIA etc.; inspiring and upskilling junior colleagues to support their career development; promoting an inclusive workplace and demonstrating an understanding of Health and Safety whilst living the values of our health, safety, and wellbeing culture; and undertaking actions that contribute towards the success of the WSP business strategy, whilst being self-motivated towards goals relevant to the role, team, and your projects.

Experience
- Demonstrable experience of undertaking EIA for aviation schemes with limited supervision, including under a range of UK planning regimes such as the Town and Country Planning Act and the Planning Act 2008.
- Ability to apply programme knowledge to effectively coordinate tasks across technical teams, external clients, stakeholders, and partner organisations.
- Experience in coordinating environmental surveys required to support an EIA for aviation schemes, with knowledge of associated Health and Safety requirements.
- Experience in bid preparation and responding to client change requests with appropriate fee adjustments for aviation projects.
- Ability to lead and contribute to meetings with technical teams and external clients and stakeholders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong report writing and review capabilities, attention to detail, and a focus on quality assurance.

About you
An enthusiastic individual with a creative spirit and a dedicated approach, able to influence, manage and deliver environmental elements of aviation projects. You are self-motivated, able to work collaboratively within diverse teams, and committed to promoting an inclusive workplace culture. You demonstrate a strong understanding of Health and Safety and live the values of health, safety, and wellbeing.

Qualifications
- A relevant environmental degree level qualification in EIA or similar.
- Achieved or demonstrably working towards Practitioner or Chartered Environmental Status.
- Full membership of IEMA or similar qualification with a relevant professional body.