Senior Air Quality Consultant

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Closing date:
January 16th

Mott Mac Donald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

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With us, in addition to delivering air quality assessments for UK planning and permit applications and EIAs, you will undertake large‑scale air quality projects on behalf of governments, international financial institutions and private banks. You’ll be responsible for providing policy advice, monitoring and modelling as well as leading air quality assessments, undertaking project technical reviews, project management and helping to train and supervise junior team members.

Winning work is an essential part of our business, and you will also have the opportunity to get involved in business development and production of proposals.

James will be your manager: “We have an array of exciting projects lined up, including major UK infrastructure initiatives, UK planning applications with EIAs, environmental permit applications, international development projects, and nationally significant infrastructure projects in the UK. You'll be an integral part of my team, delivering these remarkable projects. We are looking for someone who has the drive to deliver high quality work and is looking for more responsibility in a role as a Senior Air Quality Consultant.”

We are looking for someone with significant experience as an air quality consultant who is able to lead air quality assessments and coach junior members of the team. Having experience of leading bids and project management would also be advantageous. We are looking for a candidate with suitable academic qualifications such as a Degree or Masters in a relevant subject. While we’re involved with a lot of energy and international work we do need you to have experience on UK transport related applications as these projects are ongoing and you’ll need to be familiar with the UK assessment approaches and related tools required including ADMS‑Roads, ADMS and/or AERMOD and GIS platforms.

Experience in modelling transport and industrial related emissions as part of air quality assessments for planning and permit applications is important as well as being able to provide comprehensive high quality reports both for stand‑alone and EIA assessments.

• Essential
  • Suitable academic qualifications such as a Degree or Masters in a relevant air quality related subject
  • Ability to lead on a range of air quality assessments for large infrastructure projects as part of a collaborative multi‑disciplinary team following best practice guidance
  • Experience delivering air quality assessments for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects in the UK
  • Must be able to demonstrate high proficiency in the use of internationally recognised dispersion models including AERMOD or ADMS, and ADMS‑Roads
  • Experience delivering energy generation projects either in the UK or internationally
  • Able to produce air quality focussed proposals
  • Fluent in English (spoken and written) with excellent written communication skills
• Desirable
  • Good knowledge of monitoring approaches for a range of different pollutants
  • Experience of developing emissions inventories for…