Senior Environmental Consultant

Atkins Ireland is a member of SNC-Lavalin, one of the world’s leading providers of engineering professional consulting and support services with offices across Ireland.

Atkins is seeking a Senior Environmental Consultant to join our Environment team, based in our Dublin office (with the option of hybrid working), to work alongside engineers, environmental scientists, and other staff on our portfolio of infrastructure projects in Ireland, particularly in the water and transport sectors; as well as on specialist environmental projects.

We are currently looking to appoint a confident individual who:

• Is confident working in a team and independently.
• Is capable of organisation and management of large environmental projects including EIARs, and contaminated land reports.
• Has excellent project management skills, including technical delivery, management of finances, client liaison and programme delivery on increasingly complex and/or multi-disciplinary projects.
• Combines excellent organisational, technical, numerical and communication skills to demonstrate logical thinking and concise reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Project management of a wide variety of projects ensuring delivery on time, within budget and to high technical standards.
• Liaison with clients, stakeholders, regulators, sub-contractors and other internal disciplines.
• Preparation of proposals and input into bids for multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects.
• Managing small project teams and directing site staff (from the office).
• Working with the local and wider Atkins team across Ireland and the UK.

Requirements:

• Degree qualified in a relevant science or engineering subject (e.g. environmental science, geology, hydrogeology etc).
• Masters qualified in a relevant specialism preferred, but not essential.
• Chartered Membership of relevant professional body.
• A minimum of 7+ years relevant post-graduate experience (ideally within a consultancy environment), specifically in the preparation and co-ordination of EIAR and non-statutory environmental reports, environmental management plans, resource and waste management plans etc.
• The ability to demonstrate a good understanding of land contamination/brownfield land issues, and experience in undertaking Phase 1 Desk Studies, and Phase 2 Environmental Risk Assessments (GQRA / DQRA) would be desirable, but not essential.
• Experience of technical report writing and ability to complete technical reports to required best practice standards.
• Experience of project management and development of bids.
• Good working knowledge and demonstrable understanding of relevant planning and environmental legislation, and technical guidance and industry standards / best practice for contaminated land assessment and waste management.

About Us:

At Atkins we put Sustainability at the heart of our business strategy. We possess a significant breadth of knowledge and depth of skills and experience for the ultimate benefit of our clients. We build long-term trusted partnerships to create a world where lives are enriched through the implementation of our ideas. Together with our clients, we’re always striving to find better ways to get things done. We are a certified CPD Accredited employer with Engineers Ireland and we were named Engineers Ireland CPD Employer of the year in 2021.