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AECOM Principal Permitting Consultant in Nottingham, United Kingdom
Company Description
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Job Description
Start here. Grow here.
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.
Here’s what you’ll do:
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:
Environmental Permit Management: Delivering Environmental Permit applications, variations, transfers, and surrenders, including managing regulator engagement and determination processes.
Collaborative Environmental Assessments: Managing the delivery of supporting environmental assessments in collaboration with internal teams and the wider Environment and EHS teams.
Client Advisory: Advising clients on business implications of legislation, regulatory guidance, and Best Available Techniques (BAT) standards, including reviewing and advising on current levels of operational compliance.
Mitigation and Compliance Support: Assisting clients in developing and implementing mitigation measures, management plans, and management systems to support permit applications and ensure compliance.
Regulator Engagement: Supporting clients with regulator engagement and helping them fulfill permit obligations, such as reporting and addressing pre-operational or improvement conditions.
Business Development: Engaging in business development with new and existing clients to expand AECOM's permitting services offering.
Qualifications
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?
Here’s what we’re looking for:
Educational Background: A first degree in engineering, science, or a related discipline, with higher education in environmental or process engineering (e.g., MSc).
Consultancy Experience: Proven experience in a consultancy role, with a strong track record in delivering Environmental Permit services for various sectors and clients.
Legislative Knowledge: Extensive working knowledge of UK National and European environmental legislation, including Best Available Techniques (BAT).
Regulatory Interaction: Deep understanding of the interaction between environmental regulations and business processes, including planning, development, and operations.
Communication Skills: Excellent report writing, technical reviewing, and communication abilities, along with proficiency in IT packages such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Team and Relationship Building: Strong team player with a proactive attitude, capable of liaising confidently with colleagues, clients, and regulators, and able to build and maintain working relationships effectively.
We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at ReasonableAdjustments@aecom.com. At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.
If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!
Additional Information
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About AECOM
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
ReqID: J10099624
Business Line: Environment
Business Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India
Career Area: Science
Work Location Model: Hybrid