Principal Environmental Consultant - EIA Projects

AECOM · St Albans, England, United Kingdom

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • Posted 2026-09-23
  • Confirmed live on 25 September 2026

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Job Description
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Due to significant infrastructure planning wins and new opportunities, we are looking to bring in a Principal Environmental Consultant to working on EIA projects. As we are a national team, we are flexible in terms of office location – this includes offices in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, St Albans as well as taking advantage of our flexible hybrid working model.
Are you passionate about improving the environmental performance of infrastructure development projects and helping the UK to deliver its net zero commitments? If so, we’d love to hear from you at AECOM.
Our Environment business has over 8000 staff working across the UK and Ireland. By joining us you will work daily with technical experts within our established Environmental Impact (EIA) team which comprises over 165 staff across the UK and Ireland.
At AECOM, we’re at the forefront of innovation, delivering an exceptional portfolio of projects brought through long-term partnerships with key clients. This position offers an opportunity to manage environmental inputs to large-scale development projects that are transforming our infrastructure – this includes:

• Energy generation projects, including carbon capture and storage, hydrogen and renewables (such as large scale solar and floating offshore wind)

• Energy distribution and transmission projects (including projects forming part of the Great Grid Upgrade)

• Carbon capture pipelines

• Strategic national and regional rail projects

• Highway improvements and greenway projects

• Regeneration projects, including portside developments

• Developments within the ecommerce, minerals and waste, water, defence, aviation, commercial/ residential and industrial sectors
Here’s what you’ll do:

• Provide Expertise: As an Principal Environmental Consultant you’ll manage environmental inputs to EIA screening and scoping reports, environmental assessments/ Environmental Statements (and in the future Environmental Outcomes Reports) and supporting documents, including the technical review of specialist chapters. You’ll be involved in all project life stages, from early strategy development and site identification studies, through feasibility, optioneering/ option selection, outline design, to detailed design, discharging of conditions, construction, and scheme operation/ maintenance. You’ll have the opportunity to work across a portfolio of development projects covering multiple consenting regimes (DCO, TCPA, TWA, hybrid Bill etc.).

• Ensure Quality: Your role requires a critical eye for detail to ensure that our deliverables are produced to the highest quality standards and compliance with our rigorous quality management procedures.

• Project Management: Make effective use of your project management skills, appropriately managing resources and budgets (with support as applicable).

• Collaborate: You will working as part of integrated design teams to improve the environmental outcomes of our projects – you will identify environmental constraints, identify impact avoidance and mitigation solutions, as well as opportunities to deliver benefits.

• Client Contact: Your role will require the management of client relationships and internal supply teams.

• Growth: You will promote AECOM’s environmental services to both internal and external audiences. You will identify and lead business development opportunities and associated fee and technical proposal development.
You will work daily with technical experts within our established Environmental Impact team. We are a founding member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) EIA Quality Mark, whilst everything we do aligns with our environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy.

Qualifications
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Here’s what we’re looking for:
To apply for this will role, you’ll need to be able to demonstrate interest and experience of managing and coordinating multidisciplinary environmental inputs to infrastructure development projects. You should also have:
Environmental & Planning Expertise
Strong knowledge of EIA, environmental assessment methods, planning legislation, and relevant consenting and licensing regimes. Experience with DCO and/or TWAO would be a bonus.
Consultancy & Project Management
Experience delivering consultancy services, with strong project management skills including programming, resourcing and budget management. Able to coordinate specialist technical inputs effectively.
Communication & Collaboration
Confident engaging with a wide range of stakeholders, with excellent verbal, report writing and technical review skills. A collaborative team player who can build strong working relationships.
Qualifications & Professional Development
Degree in a relevant environmental discipline, preferably at Masters level, with appropriate professional membership. Chartered Environmentalist status and a

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