Environmental Planner | Strategic Environmental Assessments

Penguin recruitment are delighted to present a fantastic opportunity for a talented and ambitious Senior or Principal level Environmental Planner to join one of the UK's largest planning and EIA practices who are leading providers of sustainability appraisal (SA) and strategic environmental assessment (SEA) services in the UK and beyond!



My client is a multidisciplinary environmental and engineering company that provides a range of planning and environmental assessment services to public and private sector clients. The team have a proven track record in securing clients for some of the largest and most complex major development projects in the UK!



The role will involve enabling clients in a variety of sectors in the challenges of new plan and programme developments, by ensuring all social, economic, and environmental considerations are adequately integrated, and opportunities for environmental enhancement taken. This will include:

• Water Resource Regional Plans.
• Drainage and Wastewater Management Plans.
• Circular Economy Plans.
• Carbon Plans.
• Local Plans.

Job Responsibilities

• You will take responsibility for scoping individual commissions, preparing proposals and winning work.
• You will provide project/task management and leadership to the multi-disciplinary teams working on projects across the UK and overseas. Work will involve client facing activity and managing projects and subcontractors.
• You will take responsibility for the delivery of high-quality outputs.
• You will take responsibility for defining medium and long-term market opportunities, and contribute towards developing appropriate business plans.
• You will collaborate to design and implement new assessment tools, considering emerging and new practice.

Skills / Experience

• Track record in contributing to successful delivery of SEA and or SA to clients in the public and private sector.
• Familiarity of SEA regulatory requirements, emerging case law and implications.
• Familiarity with Integrated Impact Assessment, Health Impact Assessment and Equalities Impact Assessment.
• Familiarity with project and scheme development impacts in variety of sectors e.g., housing, water, waste and resources, energy.

Qualifications

• Degree, Post Graduate Diploma or Masters in relevant subject
• Full driving licence (desirable)
• Chartered Environmentalist (desirable)
• Chartered status with another relevant professional body e.g., CIWEM, RTPI

What's in it for you?



For the ideal candidate, my client is delighted to provide a competitive basic salary as well as an impressive benefits package that included company car allowance, private healthcare, health insurance and much more! My client offers a very flexible home working option, which allows for the successful candidate to work from any location!



For applications and more information regarding this position please send your up to date CV to Megan Field at megan.field@penguinrecruitment.co.uk, or call 01792 365 104.