Senior Environmental Consultant (permitting)

Fichtner Consulting Engineers Ltd is a leading technical consultancy with a reputation built on over 30 years of successful projects in the UK and Ireland. Our purpose is to facilitate the investment and delivery of energy infrastructure projects that positively influence the energy transition. Our success comes from the unique combination of skills and experience that continuously evolves. Our Engineers and Consultants support some of the most innovative energy projects across the UK and Ireland; providing design, intellectual, and engineering services to developers, investors, and owner-operators.

We have over 160 employees that we are proud to have represent us, operating from our offices in Manchester, Belfast, Dublin, and Glasgow. As the business grows from strength to strength, we are now looking to further extend our team by recruiting an experienced Senior Consultant to join our environmental team, to work on environmental permitting, due diligence and compliance projects across the UK and Ireland.

To be considered you must have a good bachelor’s degree in environmental science, or a closely related discipline, plus:

• Either be Chartered with membership of IEMA, CIWEM or similar or be actively working towards this;
• Be able to demonstrate prior project management experience with proven skills in the timely delivery of projects to client and budgetary constraints;
• Have significant experience working with all aspects of environmental permitting and compliance;
• Possess a solid understanding of environmental law in the UK, EU and internationally, and the practical application of such legislation;
• Experience in producing, reviewing and delivering high quality technical reports and environmental models for government agencies and private clients;
• Prior experience of interfacing effectively with clients, government agencies and on occasion the general public;
• Professional communication & interpersonal skills;
• Able to work independently as required but also as part of a wider project engineering team; and
• The ability to travel for project purposes in the UK, Ireland and occassionally further afield.

What you can expect from us:

• A competitive salary and holiday package, with leading bonus scheme of up to 20% of salary
• Company electrical vehicle car leasing scheme
• Private medical & life assurance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Team and company social events
• Milestone scheme celebrating years spent as part of the Fichtner team!