Senior Environmental Consultant

isepglobal; Preston; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A multinational engineering firm in the UK seeks a Senior Environmental Consultant to lead environmental services for complex infrastructure projects. The role involves ensuring compliance with environmental legislation while providing technical leadership across various disciplines. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in regulated infrastructure environments, strong communication skills, and the ability to manage environmental work packages effectively. This role supports ongoing projects and offers opportunities across multiple UK regions.

Qualifications

• Significant experience working as an environmental consultant in regulated environments.
• Ability to provide clear advice to teams and clients.
• Experience producing and reviewing technical reports.

Responsibilities

• Lead environmental services inputs for infrastructure projects.
• Manage environmental work packages and ensure compliance with standards.
• Support teams in risk identification and developing mitigation strategies.

Skills

Environmental legislation knowledge

Technical leadership

Excellent communication skills

Project management

Education

Chartered or working towards chartership with a relevant professional body

Job description

Company Description

Assystem is an international company with one mission: accelerate the energy transition around the world.

Every day, our 8,000+ switchers located in 12 countries (Europe, Middle East, Pacific Asia & Africa) connect their six thousand billion neurons to tackle the task of the century: switching to low‑carbon energy. We are a collective committed to making the energy switch. Sharing our knowledge, expertise and values allows us to innovate and think differently about the energy transition.

Here is how you can be a part of that switch:

Job Description

We are seeking Senior Environmental Consultants to support the delivery of major infrastructure programmes across highly regulated sectors, including transport, energy, water and nuclear. These roles sit within the Environmental Services discipline and involve providing technical leadership, project delivery and assurance across a range of environmental specialisms.

These are pipeline opportunities to support new projects commencing in the New Year, with roles anticipated across multiple UK regions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver environmental services inputs across complex infrastructure projects, ensuring compliance with legislation, standards and best practice.
• Provide technical leadership within one or more environmental disciplines (e.g. environmental management, EIA coordination, consents, ecology, acoustics or water/hydrogeology).
• Manage and coordinate environmental work packages, delivering high‑quality outputs to time, cost and quality.
• Support project teams in identifying environmental risks, constraints and opportunities, and developing effective mitigation strategies.
• Review, assure and approve environmental documentation and technical deliverables.
• Interface with clients, regulators and internal stakeholders to support effective environmental management and decision‑making.

Qualifications

• Significant experience working as an environmental consultant within regulated infrastructure environments.
• Strong knowledge of environmental legislation, policy and assessment processes relevant to major projects.
• Ability to lead technical delivery and provide clear, pragmatic advice to project teams and clients.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience producing and reviewing technical reports.
• Comfortable working independently while contributing to multi‑disciplinary project teams.

Desirable

• Chartered or working towards chartership with a relevant professional body (e.g. IEMA, CIEEM, IES).
• Experience leading environmental inputs on large or complex infrastructure programmes.
• Experience mentoring junior staff or leading small technical teams.

Additional Information

• These are ongoing opportunities to support anticipated project demand in the New Year.
• Opportunities are available across multiple UK regions.
• Roles may be based within highly regulated environments and will require compliance with relevant security policies and procedures.
• Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain appropriate UK security clearance.

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster, all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people's ability to dare are the only things that matter! Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.