# Principal Environmental (EIA) Consultant

**Company**: WSP
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are looking for Principal level environmental professionals to support our Environmental Management and Assessment Team across our UK offices. As a Principal EIA Consultant within WSP's Environmental Assessment and Management team, you will work with a range of technical environmental specialists and design teams across multiple sectors to lead environmental teams and inputs to project designs and assessments.

Responsibilities:

- Provide environmental advice and support to clients, project managers, and colleagues

- Work with colleagues, diverse environmental specialists, clients, and engineering teams to promote sustainable design and environmental enhancement

- Lead large, multiple, and complex projects, overseeing performance on technical, quality, commercial, and health and safety aspects

- Build relationships with clients and identify opportunities to provide support in areas such as resourcing, programming, strategy development, and project delivery

- Proactively seek to develop new client relationships and actively seek opportunities for marketing services and cross-selling

- Undertake activities to secure new work, including developing proposals for complex opportunities, delivering strategic level bids and framework opportunities, and undertaking business development opportunities

- Lead on and contribute to the development of innovative techniques to shape the way we do our business

- Drive performance improvement and career advancement opportunities across the team

- Promote and build team culture and be identified as a ‘go-to’ person within the wider team

- Promote an inclusive workplace, demonstrating an understanding of Health and Safety whilst living the values of our health, safety, and wellbeing culture

Requirements:

- Relevant environmental degree level qualification in EIA, or similar

- Achieved or demonstrably working towards Chartered Environmental Status and Full membership of IEMA, or similar qualification with a relevant professional body

- Excellent experience of EIA and EIA processes and working with limited supervision within multi-disciplinary teams

- Sound knowledge and experience of relevant environmental and planning legislation

- Verbal and written communication skills, including report writing and reviewing with attention to detail

- Experience in large-scale infrastructure projects, for example, rail, highways, energy, commercial/residential

- Comprehensive project management skills, including commercial and risk aspects, forecasting, and quality assurance

## Skills

### Required
- Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
- Chartered Environmental Status
- IEMA
- Project Management
- Communication Skills
- Environmental Legislation

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