AECOM has exciting opportunities for experienced Environmental Permitting Consultants to join our Environment, Water and Energy business offering excellent career progression within an established, friendly and professional team. You will play a key role in supporting the growth and continued success of the Environmental Permitting business in the UK and Ireland.

Although based within a specialist team within the Environment, Health and Safety Services division, you will join your colleagues working collaboratively across the wider AECOM business to support our clients from established and emerging industrial sectors such as energy, carbon capture, combustion, waste, water and other industrial sectors.  You would be working to deliver permitting, compliance and advisory services and would join our team at an exciting time working at the forefront of delivering the UK’s transition to  a low carbon economy.

The role would suit an established consultant with an appropriate level of permitting and compliance experience. Typically the successful candidate would help provide the following types of work:

• Delivery of Environmental Permit applications, variations, transfers and surrenders including managing the regulator engagement and determination processes.
• Managing the delivery of supporting environmental assessments working collaboratively within your own team and across the wider Environment and EHS teams.
• Advising clients on the implications for their business of legislation, regulatory guidance and Best Available Techniques (BAT) standards. Including review and advice on current levels of operational compliance.
• Supporting clients with the development and implementation of mitigation measures, management plans and management systems to support their environmental permit applications and help deliver permit compliance.
• Supporting clients with their regulator engagement and supporting them in discharging permit obligations such as reporting and addressing pre-operational or improvement conditions.
• Business development with new and existing clients to help the AECOM team grow its permitting offering.
• Undertaking quality assurance and technical assurance checks on work prepared by others.
• Mentoring and developing the next generation of permitting and compliance professionals.