Senior Environmental and Sustainability Consultant

Senior Environmental and Sustainability Consultant

Location: Altrincham, Birmingham, Brighton, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Reading, Southampton; UK

Recruiter contact: Emma Cantley

Our Environment, Nature, and Consents business is seeking an experienced Senior Consultant to contribute to a growing pipeline of exciting opportunities. The ESS team boasts over 100 professionals across 18 UK and Spain offices, delivering work across energy, ports, defence, water, rail, and urban development projects.

As part of this UK‑based role you will lead and coordinate environmental and sustainability work streams from business case development to construction, advocating for environmental and social outcomes on behalf of clients.

• Lead EIA screening and scoping, and produce Environmental Statements and other reports.
• Coordinate technical input from multidisciplinary specialists.
• Assist with monitoring programmes, resource allocation, and financial management of environmental projects.
• Support business development and proposal writing for environmental services.
• Maintain client liaison and stakeholder engagement.
• Mentor and line‑manage environmental team members.
• Develop an environmental technical specialism, in addition to coordination roles.

• Relevant academic or professional qualifications.
• Chartership recently achieved through IEMA, IES, CIWEM or similar, or demonstrable progress towards chartership.
• Experience in environmental assessment, EIA, SEA, UK environmental planning legislation, ESG, sustainability strategy, and appraisal development for infrastructure projects.
• Client‑facing experience with the ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders.
• Well‑organised with strong planning and management skills, capable of producing high‑quality deliverables and monitoring budgets and programmes.
• Experience working in diverse multidisciplinary teams and leading teams to high‑standard environmental and sustainability deliverables.

• Bid/tender delivery experience, including cost and quality responses.
• Experience with TWAO and/or DCO schemes, and in the Water, Defence, Energy, Marine, or Rail sectors.
• People management experience and support staff development.
• Confidence in delivering environmental and sustainability workshops or training, online or in person.

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan supporting everyday health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• Comprehensive wellbeing programme for you and your family.
• Flexibility to allocate salary into a range of health benefits for you and your family.

• Matching of employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4× basic salary, with an option to increase to 6×.
• Income protection scheme offering financial benefit and support for long‑term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving, and will writing.
• Annual bonus schemes reflecting the business’s financial success.

• A minimum of 33–35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays; buy/sell leave through flexible benefits.
• Holiday entitlement increases to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Employee saving schemes and discounts from high‑street retailers.

• 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave; two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Shared parental leave matching maternity leave, up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave for significant caring responsibilities, two paid.

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• Opportunities to enhance technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self‑development.

• A wide range of employee networks supporting LGBTQ+, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers.
• Opportunities to make a difference within communities through social…