Consultant/Senior EIA Consultant

Company Description

Job Description

Fleixible, United Kingdom

Do you want to push the boundaries of your profession and develop your excellence in an open, collaborative and empowering culture? Are you motivated by creating sustainable change that benefits society and nature? Are you our new Senior Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Consultant?

If this sounds like you, or you’re curious to learn more, then this role could be the perfect opportunity. Join our Impact Assessment team as our new Senior EIA Consultant and work with us to close the gap to a sustainable future.

Your new role
As our new Senior EIA Consultant, you will bring your knowledge of EIA into play as you co-ordinate statutory and non-statutory environmental assessment processes required to support major development proposals across a range of sectors including onshore & offshore energy, property & development, data-centres and major projects. To succeed in this role, you must be able to apply environmental consenting processes in the UK as well as an understanding of wider planning processes and regulations.

Your key responsibilities will be:

Project team management and client liaison, together with assisting on business and client development

Working in multidisciplinary teams on the co-ordination and management of EIAs including taking overall responsibility leading smaller projects and coordinating elements of larger schemes

Desk based environmental baseline data collection and interpretation including site visits

Report writing and preparation of figures, including drafting sections of Impact Assessment chapters and document reviews

Stakeholder liaison including preparing materials for, and taking part in, stakeholder meetings and public consultations

Current Opportunities
Our current projects associated with this this role include the following opportunities:

Major Projects and Programmes - To support our Major Projects and Programmes team working on a range of large-scale projects including supporting our long term frameworks with the British Antarctic Survey and the Ministry of Defence and new projects in the rail and road sectors working with our UK and Ireland transport team

Property and Multi Markets - To support our Property and Multi Market teams on a wide range of projects supporting our frameworks with Homes England and work in the property, datacentre and ports & harbours sectors together with multidisciplinary work with our wider UK Buildings team

Energy - To support our Energy team on projects in onshore and offshore wind, solar, BESS, transmission lines, hydrogen and carbon capture & storage.

Your new team
You will be part of our UK Impact Assessment team, which forms part of our Global Impact Assessment Spearhead. The Spearhead has been established to drive further growth and specialisation in Impact Assessment globally, building on our existing successes through a continued focus on national impact assessment work, alongside targeting large, strategic projects – no matter where these occur, within our geographic strongholds or beyond. Our UK business employs over 300 environmental science professionals in 14 locations and covers a breadth of consulting services structured around impact assessment, compliance, strategy and transactions, new initiatives and sustainability, product safety and stewardship, contaminated land, and Water. Our clients include UK and global multinationals, utilities, local and central government and international institutions. Ramboll operates a flexible working policy, and with this you will be part of an exciting team of experts, who respect each other and work towards a common goal 

About you 
From the moment you start at Ramboll, we will support your personal and professional development so that you can continue to grow with the company. Whilst we look forward to supporting your continued learning and development, for this role we have identified some qualifications, skills, and capabilities that will set you up for success. 

These include: 

Appropriate degree in environmental sciences, environmental engineering or a related environmental discipline

Master’s degree in an environmental discipline (advantageous)

Prior EIA coordination experience on complex projects (essential)

Excellent communication skills both written and oral

Full clean driving licence

What we can offer you

Strong company commitment and ethos centred on sustainable development

Investment in your development

Leaders you can count on, guided by our Leadership Principles

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Private medical cover and life assurance

Matched pension contributions

Flexible work environment

Never being short of inspiration and support from colleagues, clients, and projects

Work at the heart of sustainable change
Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company. We believe that the purpose of sustainable change is to create a thriving world for both nature and people. So, that’s where we start – and how we work. At Ramboll, our core strength is our people, and our history is rooted in a clear vision of how a responsible company should act. Being open and curious is a cornerstone of our culture. We embrace an inclusive mindset that looks for fresh, diverse, and innovative perspectives. We respect, embrace, and invite diversity in all forms to actively cultivate an environment where everyone can flourish and realise their full potential.