Senior / Principal Air Quality Consultant

Job description

Website Peritus Recruits

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a multidisciplinary consultancy, working with like-minded specialist working across their network of UK offices. Due to recent and sustained growth, we are seeking to add a Senior/ Principal Air Quality Consultant to our team.

To apply for this job email your details to paul@peritusrecruits.com.

Key responsibilities

The successful candidate will be part of a small team working in this area but would be supported by other experienced environmental consultants and town planners. It is likely that projects will primarily be within the energy sectors although there may be opportunities to work on other types of projects.

The successful candidate will be responsible for establishing and growing the teams technical expertise and supporting business development activity as required. The role will also involve delivering training to colleagues, clients and contractors. The successful candidate may be required to assist in recruitment, development and day to day support / management of additional staff.

Key responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

  • Desk based air quality and dust impact assessments
  • Emission calculations
  • Dispersion modelling
  • Supporting the Environmental Impact Assessment process
  • Supporting the environmental permitting process
  • Preparing Air Quality Management Plans
  • Supporting strategic projects or due diligence reviews through provision of specialist advice.

It is expected that, the majority of time would be spent on project work with the remainder spent on, business development activities and in training and supporting colleagues.

  • Delivering projects to a high level of technical competency and capable of acting autonomously.
  • Actively managing client relationships and ensure that their needs and expectations are understood.
  • Working with colleagues disciplines and seeking opportunities to utilise their services.
  • Defining work scopes for others to participate in projects they are managing.
  • Identifying risks within their projects, communicating regularly with the rest of the project team and elevating any issues if support is required.
  • Supporting other members of the team as required providing one-to-one or group training.
  • Contributing to, or managing the preparation of, proposals, including commercial aspects and involving others as required.
  • Managing their own time and delivering multiple or large, complex projects on time/budget, managing client expectations and scope changes as required.
  • Maintaining and sharing market intelligence.
  • Considering their impact on health and safety, quality and environment.

Job requirements

Ideally you will be experienced in their field and would ideally have practical experience of energy projects. They should also be capable of taking a leading role within the team and providing mentoring and development support where required.

You must have excellent customer focus and be able to interpret client requirements and manage and deliver sometimes difficult or complex projects to their satisfaction. This would include engaging proactively with clients to deliver new business opportunities as well as maintaining current relationships, undertaking and managing project work, writing and reviewing documents and reports and managing, supporting and guiding other team members. The successful candidate will have a flexible and innovative approach to pragmatically delivering projects and meeting client expectations.

Qualifications 

  • A degree in a relevant scientific discipline
  • Full Member of the Institute of Air Quality Management (IAQM), or qualification to become such a member.

Job benefits

This is an exciting opportunity that will enable you to take your career to the next level. As a senior member of the team, you will be able to enhance your technical skills and also help. support the next generation of air quality specialists.

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