Environment and Consenting Lead

Overview

In this senior role, you guide environmental strategy and consent for major water infrastructure programmes. You act as the environmental authority across regulated projects, shaping risk management and assurance to support regulator-ready outputs. You work with regulators, planning authorities and consultants to deliver pragmatic, credible solutions at national scale. You’ll lead environmental investigations through the project lifecycle and mentor multidisciplinary teams, contributing to long-term resilience in water resources. This position offers high-impact, cross-functional influence on national-scale environmental outcomes within a collaborative environment.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 28 days holiday + bank holidays
• Annual bonus scheme
• Leading pension scheme (double contribution)
• Sharesave
• Dedicated training and development (Academy)

Responsibilities

• Lead environmental investigations and assessments across the full project lifecycle
• Act as the senior environmental authority for assigned programmes, setting direction and assuring quality
• Manage and co-ordinate environmental consultants, delivering regulator ready outputs that provide value for money
• Build strong relationships with regulators, statutory bodies and planning authorities, agreeing scopes and approaches early
• Identify and manage environmental risks and opportunities, developing pragmatic solutions to complex challenges
• Author and assure environmental inputs to key regulatory submissions, including RAPID gate papers
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to project teams

Key requirements

• Significant experience providing environmental leadership on complex infrastructure or capital programmes
• Strong understanding of UK environmental regulation and risk management
• Ability to translate complex technical issues into clear, defensible advice for senior decision makers
• Experience working with regulators and external stakeholders on high profile or sensitive issues
• Confidence to influence, challenge and lead in uncertain or evolving environments

• leadership
• influencing
• stakeholder management
• UK environmental regulation knowledge
• risk management
• environmental assessments

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