Senior Acoustic Consultant Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
Senior Acoustic Consultant
Are you looking for your next career step? Do you want the opportunity to work on a broad range of projects, utilising your acoustics knowledge to provide first class noise and vibration advice to our clients? This role will provide you with this opportunity whilst working within a market leading consultancy team.
About Our Acoustics Practice and Environment Advisory Group:
Our UK Acoustics practice has an enviable project portfolio across market sectors including aviation, energy, buildings, maritime, industry and urban development, providing a wide range of career development opportunities. We specialise in resolving environmental noise and vibration issues, whilst also providing our clients with advice on building acoustic design, occupational acoustics and industrial noise control. We work on projects in the UK and internationally, often as part of large multi-disciplinary teams.
Our Acoustics practice sits in our Environment Group, which has been providing environmental solutions for our clients for over 30 years in the UK. We offer a comprehensive range of environmental services to support all sizes and types of development. From high profile infrastructure projects such as the Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Farms, the Woodsmith Crop Nutrients Mine, and Sizewell C Nuclear Power Station, to carbon management, climate resilience, locally-driven habitat enhancement and wider biodiversity net gain projects. We combine market-leading technical excellence, across the range of environmental disciplines, with a clear understanding of clients’ ambitions, needs and pressures.
We specialise in consenting, permitting and licencing support for complex infrastructure developments and operations. We have successfully supported our clients in delivering sustainable projects in sectors including energy, industry, marine development and catchment management.
Job Role:
We are seeking an enthusiastic and talented person with excellent communication skills and technical ability in most aspects of noise and vibration. In this role, you will apply these skills across a variety of projects, undertaking predictive calculations and modelling, technical report writing, building acoustics design, environmental impact assessment, and providing mitigation advice. You will be expected to provide technical support to junior members of the noise and vibration team, contribute towards our continued growth and development, as well as being involved in identifying business opportunities and providing clients with robust and helpful advice.
This role might be right for you if you have:
- Bachelors degree in a relevant subject and/or the IOA Diploma in Acoustics and Noise Control;
- 5 or more years’ professional experience in acoustics, with at least 3 years in consultancy;
- Experience of noise monitoring surveys, noise modelling software and environmental noise assessment;
- Working knowledge of legislation and guidelines relevant to the acoustics sector;
- Commercial understanding, an interest in securing new business and confidence at the client-interface;
- Excellent written and verbal communication, organisational and analytical skills;
- Project management experience;
- Corporate membership of the Institute of Acoustics; and
- Willingness to travel, including possibly to international destinations.
And if you are:
- Dependable, pro-active and self-motivated
- Flexible, conscientious and adaptive / innovative
What we can offer you:
Ambitious. Exciting. Lively. Collaborative. Dynamic. That’s how our colleagues describe our company. Want to contribute to Enhancing Society with your expertise? Be part of an open network where you’re connected with the brightest and smartest people and technologies? Join us!
You can look forward to growing your career in a dynamic workplace with development opportunities and support on your career path. We have flexible working models to ensure a balance of family and working life.
About Royal HaskoningDHV:
Royal HaskoningDHV has been connecting people for 140 years. Together, through our expertise and passion, we have helped contribute to a better society and improved people’s lives with work underpinned by our sustainable values and goals. We are an independent international engineering and project management consultancy leading the way in sustainable development and innovation.
Royal HaskoningDHV is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions. Together, we are embarking on a journey where each and every one of us, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrates individual differences. We recognise that embracing diversity unlocks innovation and creativity and fosters collaboration. We want our employees to reflect the diversity of our communities and the customers we serve.
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