Location
Flexible across multiple UK offices including Basingstoke, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Chesterfield, Croydon, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London Aldgate, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, St Albans, Warrington. Other locations may be considered for the right candidate.

Hours
Full-time or part-time positions available with flexible working arrangements including hybrid options.

Salary
Competitive salary commensurate with experience.

About the Role
Are you passionate about improving the environmental performance of infrastructure development projects? Join AECOM as a Technical Director in Environmental Impact Assessment within our Environment & Sustainability business, comprising over 650 staff across the UK and Ireland. You will lead multidisciplinary environmental inputs to large-scale development projects that support the UK’s net zero goals, including energy generation (carbon capture, hydrogen, renewables), energy distribution, strategic rail, highways, regeneration, ecommerce, minerals and waste, water, defence, aviation, commercial, residential, and industrial sectors.

You will oversee environmental inputs throughout all project stages from early strategy and site identification, feasibility, optioneering, design, consenting, construction, to operation and maintenance. Your portfolio will cover multiple consenting regimes such as DCO, TCPA, TWA, and hybrid Bills. You will also play a key role in business development and client relationship management, working closely with technical experts within our established Environmental Impact team.

As a founding member of the IEMA EIA Quality Mark, AECOM aligns all work with our environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy. Your leadership will include directing technical reviews, managing staff resources and budgets, collaborating with integrated design teams to identify environmental constraints and develop mitigation solutions, and mentoring staff to foster growth and excellence.

At AECOM, you will benefit from a dynamic, inclusive workplace that champions integrity, entrepreneurial spirit, and pioneering mindset, with access to industry-leading technology and transformational projects that create sustainable legacies for generations to come.

Experience
- Proven experience directing and managing multidisciplinary environmental inputs to infrastructure development projects.
- Strong consultancy leadership skills.
- Excellent understanding of EIA processes and environmental assessment methods.
- Detailed knowledge of relevant consenting and licensing regimes.
- Confident engagement with diverse stakeholder groups and clients.
- Ability to work collaboratively within established teams and lead specialist technical inputs.
- Project director skills including programming, staff resource, and budget management.

About you
- Collaborative and inspiring leader with strong communication and mentoring skills.
- Motivated to support business development and client relationship management.
- Willingness to travel as required.
- Commitment to promoting environmental services internally and externally.
- Enthusiastic about contributing to an inclusive and diverse workplace.

Qualifications
- Degree in a relevant environmental discipline, preferably a Masters degree.
- Appropriate professional membership.
- Chartered Environmentalist status is advantageous.
- Experience with DCO and/or TWAO consenting regimes is a plus.
- Interest in line management and staff mentoring duties is desirable.