Senior EIA Consultant

Overview

In this role you will lead Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) for diverse projects within Arcadis’ Environmental Planning team. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality environmental outputs that support sustainable urban and infrastructure development. You’ll manage client relationships, coordinate stakeholders, and translate technical findings into clear reports for non-technical audiences. This position offers impact through shaping environmental outcomes across projects and regions.

Responsibilities

• Champion high standards of environmental performance within multidisciplinary projects and influence project development
• Coordinate environmental work across multi-disciplinary teams on a range of projects
• Deliver your work to a high standard and review others’ work for quality
• Proactively manage projects or components, allocate resources, manage subcontractors, ensure QA and capture client feedback
• Contribute to tender proposals and bids as part of a project-winning team
• Provide environmental advice and support to clients, project managers and colleagues
• Engage with consultees and stakeholders
• Collaborate with technical specialists
• Develop high-quality reports and explain outcomes to non-technical audiences
• Manage projects overseeing technical, quality, commercial and health and safety performance

Key requirements

• Good working knowledge of EIA practices and procedures
• Experience across energy, residential/mixed-use/regeneration, and major infrastructure projects (rail/highways)
• Practical knowledge of the UK planning system and consenting
• Strong report writing, verbal and presentation skills; ability to review others’ work
• Experience in multi-disciplinary coordination, project management and reporting
• Experience negotiating with planning authorities, regulators and stakeholders
• Desirable: SEA and/or IIA delivery experience; knowledge of sustainability, waste or carbon assessments
• Desirable: Associate Member of IEMA

• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Stakeholder engagement
• Problem solving and analytical thinking
• EIA practices and procedures
• SEA/IIA delivery (desirable)
• Sustainability, waste, carbon assessments (desirable)

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