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Location: This position can be based from any of the following locations: Birmingham, Bristol, Derby, Edinburgh, Epsom, Glasgow, London, Oxford, Peterborough, Swansea, Warrington. It is available as either full-time and part-time.

Do you have the drive and technical capability to work with us as a Senior or Principal Consultant within our Environment team, delivering the future of Atkins’ service offerings and capability in Nature Based Solutions for carbon emissions reductions and removals? The role will be a cornerstone within a respected and passionate technical team. You will be responsible for maintaining and growing our reputation for technical excellence, and working collaboratively to both win and deliver work across our extensive client portfolio.

SNC-Lavalin’s Atkins business is one of the world’s most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies, with over 50,000 employees worldwide. At Atkins, we offer more than just a job. We offer an opportunity to make a difference and shape the world to benefit future generations and the natural environment. Our friendly, collaborative and supportive working environment is a great space to further develop your technical skills, build your career, and work with great people with a shared purpose.

Our team

You will be joining our growing team of nature-based solutions practitioners as part of our exciting and inclusive Environment practice, and the role will sit within our Water Management Consultancy business. We use state of the art approaches and our innovative in-house tools to assess and quantify the impact of environmental changes at various scales, from strategic to scheme level. We have a deep-rooted passion for protecting natural capital and supporting our clients in meeting pressing challenges including climate change and biodiversity loss. We have a reputation for technical excellence, innovation and actively shaping the future of our industry. We are a friendly and approachable group. We enjoy the work we do and have fun while doing it.

Our team offers a unique blend of skills, comprising experts in environmental economics, biodiversity net gain, nature-based solutions, environmental science and spatial analysis, with an ambitious strategy for continuous innovation and expanding our capability. We enjoy working collaboratively with our colleagues across the company to deliver projects that bring about real change, drawing on experts from other specialist teams such as planning, carbon accounting, environmental economics and ecology to deliver our work.

We work for a broad spectrum of clients across the UK and overseas, including central and local government, utilities, regulators, the water industry, private estates, developers and NGOs. Many of our clients are highly ambitious about tackling the climate and biodiversity crises, with recent projects focusing on using nature-based solutions to deliver carbon net zero and introducing beavers as part of natural flood management on a rural estate. You will have the opportunity to work with and influence our clients directly, supporting them on tackling these challenges.

Responsibilities

You will play a central role in developing, contributing to and leading projects with a nature-based solutions focus helping our clients to deliver emissions reductions and removals to deliver climate outcomes such as Net Zero objectives. There will also be the opportunity to support on natural capital, biodiversity net gain and natural flood management on a wide variety of projects across the business. You will need to keep up-to-date with the rapidly developing field of nature-based solutions and the application of evolving industry techniques around quantification and verification of greenhouse gas emissions reductions and removals. Through our technical networks, you will also have the opportunity to input to the development and refinement of new and existing digital tools that quantify and illustrate environmental impacts in a clear and visual way. You will also contribute to business development and will be responsible for the successful delivery of key tasks on projects or on bids, including managing contributions from junior team members, and will be focused on achieving and delivering technical excellence.

What we’re looking for

We are seeking an enthusiastic and ambitious individual to join our team, contributing to a wide range of projects across the Environment business, including in nature-based carbon removals, habitat restoration, water management, catchment management, climate adaptation, natural flood management, environmental planning, and designing future-ready cities. You will have the opportunity to work alongside award-winning national experts in environmental economics, biodiversity net gain and nature-based solutions. Our current vacancy is for a Senior or Principal Consultant position in Epsom, Bristol, Peterborough, Oxford, Warrington, London, Glasgow or Birmingham, although consideration will be given to exceptional candidates in other locations. The role will also involve leading the technical network on Nature and Carbon drawing together specialisms and sharing technical knowledge across the business.

The Individual

You will be an Environmental Scientist/Biologist or Ecologist, preferably chartered (or willing to work towards it), who has demonstrable experience developing nature-based solutions and quantification of carbon impacts and benefits through either a combination of academic training or on-the-job experience. Some experience of multi-disciplinary project delivery is desirable, as nature-based solutions will often be an input into a wider project or require inputs from different experts.

You will be self-motivated, flexible and enthusiastic, as well as having:

• Ideally some experience in project management, winning work and technical leadership of projects.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to adapt your presentation style to different types of audience, including non-specialists.
• Strong organisational skills, an ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and to deadlines.
• Excellent collaborative working skills to ensure we get the best from our working relationships with internal and external client teams
• Attention to detail and desire to work to high standards consistently
• Have detailed knowledge of greenhouse gas quantification methodologies, standards and tools in the context of nature-based solutions, understand implications of soils in context of nature based-carbon removals and land use change, and environmental impacts of infrastructure projects.
• Awareness of relevant existing and emerging policies (both in UK and internationally), statutory procedures and regulations including environmental law, statutes, regulations and evolving nature-based carbon standards relating to infrastructure and nature-based projects, as well as the carbon offsetting market.
• Have a good technical understanding of GIS and Information and Data Management and the importance of the role of data management in providing a platform to deliver and maximise nature-based solution opportunities.

What we offer

Atkins is committed to promoting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. We have a commitment to identify and recruit from the most diverse talent pool and develop new and improved ways to sponsor talent from underrepresented groups. We have a range of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion network groups encouraging an inclusive workplace where all employees can flourish, including Embrace (supporting minority ethnicities), Enable (supporting visible and invisible disabilities) Equilibrium (for LGBT+ colleagues), Menopause at Work, Neurodiversity (for variations in learning, attention and other mental functions), ParentNet, and Empower (providing professional support by and for women).

Here at Atkins, well-being is at the forefront of everything we do. We recognise that there is more to life than work and that making time for the other things is crucial for health and happiness. We support flexible working arrangements and are interested to discuss how we can accommodate individual requirements. As part of this commitment, we understand the need for a diverse and flexible workforce, where a work-life balance is important. So, by default Atkins offers flexible working, where there is no fixed 9 ‘til 5, no need for a five-day week, and no requirement to spend all your working time in the office. We use a paid overtime and TOIL system, which also helps individuals to make time for the things that are important to them and prevents staff burn out during the busy season. Similarly, Atkins’ corporate social responsibility provides the opportunity to give something back to the community, and we run professional networks supporting groups such as local schools, charities, parents, those coming out of the armed-forces and women in engineering.

Training

Atkins develops individuals through a portfolio of training and development activities designed to help you make the best of your abilities and talents. These are reviewed with individuals through an annual development process. We support staff in achieving and maintaining membership of relevant institutions. You will also be part of our global Technical Networks, which provide a flow of technically orientated information and ideas through the company.

Atkins will support you in your professional development, whether chartered with CIWEM, IEMA, CIEEM, or another professional body. This includes paying your annual membership and providing access to training.

Rewards and Benefits

We offer a competitive salary that is regularly tested against other consultants with a default 25-days leave each year plus bank holidays and options to buy or sell leave. We also operate a Time Off In Lieu (TOIL) system for any hours undertaken above contracted hours which can be used throughout the year. To support and safeguard your physical and mental wellbeing we provide an employee assistance programme offering advice and support in times of need.

Our offices run their own sports and social club providing wide ranging activities such as wine tasting, surf trips and a kids’ Christmas party. You will also have access to our Flexible Benefits, where you can opt into a wide range of benefits to complement your work/life balance: such as medical insurance, gym membership, the cycle-to-work scheme, child care vouchers, charitable giving, additional pension contributions etc. Please refer to our website for details of our full benefits package: https://yourrewarduk.snclavalin.com/.

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

Atkins recognise that there are many well qualified people who are looking to further their career, but who cannot commit to full time employment. We support flexible working arrangements and are interested to discuss how we can accommodate individual requirements. ATKINS, part of the SNC Lavalin Group, is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.”