Principal Environmental and Sustainability Consultant - Water Resources Planning

Overview

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Location/s: UK-wide, South East England preferred

Recruiter contact: Laura Easdon

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.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.

Whatever your ambition, Mott Mac Donald is where people come to be brilliant
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Environmental and social considerations are central to Mott Mac Donald’s Purpose and its offerings across all sectors and territories. Our environment and social business provides essential services and innovative solutions which anticipate our clients’ needs across all sectors.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Environment and Sustainability Consultant. This role focuses on supporting our well-established water resources planning environmental assessment business. You will lead the environmental workstream for predominantly water sector planning projects, taking responsibility for technical delivery and overseeing project progress. In this role, you will lead multidisciplinary teams, coordinating with technical experts to ensure seamless project delivery and consistently high-quality outcomes for our key clients.

We are preparing for a dynamic AMP8 period with a wealth of forthcoming opportunities and active projects building on our success in AMP
7. To support our AMP8 delivery we seek a highly motivated individual to provide technical delivery and technical excellence in environmental assessments across our portfolio of water resource projects. The role can be based at any of our UK offices, with a preference for locations in the South (Cambridge, London, Croydon, Reading, Southampton). The successful candidate will join our Environmental & Sustainability Services (ESS) team, comprising a growing network of environmental and sustainability professionals across 18 offices nationwide.

As industry leaders in water resource planning and development within the water sector, we deliver innovative, tailored solutions to address our clients’ most complex challenges. Furthermore, we are recognised for developing best practice and pragmatic methods in environmental assessment delivery, with extensive expertise in Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA), Natural Capital Assessment, and Biodiversity Net Gain Assessment. This role will play a pivotal part in the successful delivery of these services.

• Technical lead and delivery of environmental work streams for water planning projects, ensuring high quality deliverables
• Providing technical leadership to environmental and sustainability project teams
• Driving technical excellence, innovation and sustainable outcomes
• Technical checker/approver roles
• Client engagement with a diverse range of clients and stakeholders from both the public and private sector
• Developing fee estimates

Essential

• Experience of leading environmental assessments for the water sector or other sectors
• Experience of strategic water planning such as Water Resource Management Plans, Regional Water Resource Plans, Drought Plans and Drainage and Wastewater Management Plans
• Qualified in a related technical subject (Minimum of a Bachelor’s…