Principal Environmental Consultant

Job Description

My client provides environmental consultancy services and modelling software solutions, working closely with the upstream oil and gas industry. They deliver services including Environmental and Social Impact Assessment, Environmental Compliance and Permitting, Decommissioning Programmes and Scoping, Chemical Permitting, Marine Conservation and Ecosystems Management, Hydrodynamic, Dispersion and Particulates Modelling, Underwater Noise and Oil Spill Modelling and Impact Assessment and Environmental Due Diligence.Principal Environmental ConsultantThey are currently looking for a Principal Environmental Consultant to join their team and be based from one of their offices in Aberdeen, Leeds or London.The Principal Environmental Consultant will provide independent and original expertise, ingenuity and judgement in the offshore oil and gas and renewables fields. You will act as a Project Manager or Project Director and lead a team of employees both from a team and project perspective, helping to grow the business through strategic business development, promotions and sales.The Principal Environmental Consultant will:*Be a recognised expert in their field with strong technical capability in marine biology, Environmental Impact Assessments of oil and gas and marine renewable energy operations, facilitation of relevant environmental studies, workshops and stakeholder engagement.*Provide strategic and statutory environmental advice to clients in a variety of sectors.*Build upon existing and develop new client relationships to further the Environment UK business.*Provide technical advice, leadership and mentoring to the marine environment team.To be considered for this role, applicants will need to be suitably qualified, with a bachelors degree in biological or other relevant science and a working knowledge of environmental engineering techniques, including significant post-graduate experience in the Oil and Gas industry or Oil and Gas consulting sector. You will also need demonstrable experience in offshore renewable energy projects.You will possess:*Excellent knowledge of offshore environmental UK policy and legislation.*Demonstrable experience in managing and writing Environmental Impact Assessments, Environmental Statements and Appraisals, and/or Strategic Environmental Assessment for offshore energy projects.*Experience of project managing medium to large projects.*Experience of business development, bid writing, client relationship building and key account management.*Excellent communication skills.*Environmental consultancy experience.Principal Environmental ConsultantAberdeen, Leeds or London (initial home working in line with government guidelines)Salary £45-50k DOE plus benefitsKey Skills: Environmental Consultant, Environmental Consultancy, Environmental Impact Assessments, Environmental Statements, Environmental Appraisals, Oil & Gas, Upstream, Offshore, Marine, Marine Biology, Renewable Energy.PLEASE NOTE: Applicants for this must be currently eligible to work in the UK without the need for employer sponsorship.Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you dont hear from us within 7 working days, please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time. This role is a PERMANENT position Electus Recruitment Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.