Job Description
Do you want a role as a senior environmental consultant in a vibrant and successful Major Projects and Programmes team? We invite you to bring your knowledge of, and enthusiasm for, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and environmental management into play as you project manage statutory EIA and non-statutory environmental assessments to support major programmes, projects, and developments, including transport, defence, and public sector work. This role can be worked on a full time or part time basis.
Inviting bright minds
Do you want to push the boundaries of your profession and develop your excellence in an open, collaborative and empowering culture? We work to create a sustainable future and our inspiring projects and innovative solutions strive to set the standard among our peers. You will join a global company that has been growing successfully since its founding in 1945. Together, we use our skills to lead major projects, providing successful solutions and leave a positive impact on societies, companies and people around the world.
You will join our Impact Assessment department
As one of our Senior EIA Consultants you will be part of our UK Impact Assessment team, which forms part of our broader Global Impact Assessment Spearhead. The Spearhead has been established to drive further growth and specialisation in Impact Assessment, building on our existing successes through a continued focus on national impact assessment work, alongside targeting large, strategic projects – no matter where they occur, either within our existing geographic strongholds or beyond.
Our Impact Assessment teams are currently working on some of the largest and most challenging projects in the UK and are involved from the early feasibility stages through to planning submission and condition discharge, into construction and post construction monitoring. Our clients include UK and global multi-nationals, utilities, property developers, local and central government. You will be working across a breadth of major projects and programmes, anything from High Speed 2 and British Antarctic Survey framework, to National Highways and various local authorities and contractors.
Your key tasks and responsibilities will be:
- Managing and co-ordinating environmental and multi-disciplinary EIA project teams
- Attendance at client and stakeholder meetings and public consultation exercises
- Preparation of desk-based reporting, assessment, and analysis
- Site and client office visits
- Report writing, drafting of ES chapters and reviewing of technical reports
- Coordination and management of the Impact Assessment process and preparation of Environmental Statements and Addenda
- Budget management
- Coaching & mentoring more junior staff
Your starting point for constant growth
From the moment you join Ramboll, we will support your personal and professional development so that you grow with the company. For this role, we believe your starting point is:
- Appropriate degree in environmental sciences, environmental engineering or a related discipline
- Master’s degree in an environmental discipline (advantageous but is not essential)
- Prior EIA project management experience on complex projects, ideally including Development Consent Orders, T&C Planning, etc
- Member of a relevant professional body such as Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment, Institution of Environmental Sciences etc. and preferably Chartered Environmentalist (or working towards it)
Personal qualities that will help you succeed in this role include:
- Demonstratable collaborative approach
- Ability to work successfully across the business and with internal and external sub-consultants in the delivery of a consistent EIA approach and reporting style
- Well organised and able to prioritise your own workload with minimal supervision and manage the team in completing high quality reports and documents to meet programme requirements
- Experience of being client facing, including managing and developing client relationships and contributing to business development would be a benefit
Ramboll in the United Kingdom
Ramboll is ranked a Top 10 consultant in the UK and has 1,600 bright minds working across 17 offices to apply their passion to deliver innovative solutions across Buildings, Transport, Environment & Health and Energy. We love seeing our talents develop and succeed and you will have opportunities to work on challenging and inspiring projects within an environment that is friendly, open and supportive.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Ramboll is an equal opportunity employer. We respect human rights and believe that equality, diversity and inclusion create the best results and a welcoming work environment without discrimination or harassment.
Ramboll’s core beliefs drive our approach to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). Founders Børge Ramboll and Johann Hannemann instilled the adage “treat all others as you wish them to treat you” as a guiding principle, and this still underpins how we act with our clients, our company, our people and society as a whole.
A ‘Partner for Sustainable Change’
You will be part of Ramboll’s commitment to be a ‘Partner for Sustainable Change’. This reflects our promise to clients and stakeholders, as we help them navigate their transition towards a more sustainable future. But partnering also reflects our commitments to society, Ramboll’s own transformation, and our people. It also means practicing what we preach, reflected in our own ambitious science-based targets to keep warming below 1.5°C, our aim to achieve net zero in our operations by 2030 and in our commitment to exit oil and gas exploration.
How to apply
Apply online. Attach your CV, cover letter and relevant documents showcasing why you are the right fit for the role, and when you are available to start. We look forward to receiving your application.
deadline: 31-01-2023
