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About this role
Role Overview
- Acting as a technical leader and subject matter specialist within the Group and wider business, specialising within the nuclear domain as an environmental specialist.
- Managing business development activities with both the existing client base and to secure new clients.
- Delivery of complex projects (e.g. technically complex; or multi-disciplinary; or high value; or high risk; or long duration etc.) to ensure that they are delivered on time, in line with the agreed scope, to the desired quality standard and within budget.
- Undertaking technical verification reviews and approval of deliverables, ensuring quality, technical accuracy and effective communication of outputs for our Clients.
- Coaching and mentoring junior staff to support their career development.
- Staying current on changes in regulations and permitting requirements to ensure compliance for our clients.
Requirements
- Relevant degree or equivalent demonstrated experience.
- Relevant professional membership.
- Holding or actively working towards Full / Chartered status.
- Significant experience writing and editing high quality outputs in a consultancy or advisory setting.
- Significant experience writing high quality bids and proposals in a consultancy or advisory setting.
- Commercial awareness and attention to detail to manage project scope, risks, and costs.
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to build productive working relationships at senior levels.
- Ability to efficiently manage time and prioritise tasks in a consultancy setting with frequent shifting priorities.
- Essential
- Significant experience and demonstrable ability in at least two of the following:
- Experience developing Environmental Cases and/or Environmental Safety Cases (ESCs) within a nuclear context.
- Demonstratable ability in management arrangements, radioactive waste management, quantification of radiological waste, and sampling arrangements, techniques and systems.
- Extensive knowledge of Best Available Techniques (BAT) Reference Documents (BREFs).
- Experience conducting BAT assessments would be advantageous.
- Extensive understanding of Radioactive Substance Regulations (RSR) environmental permits.
- Management and delivery of nuclear site or non-nuclear RSR environmental permit applications, variations, transfers and surrenders would be advantageous.
- Understanding of the Nuclear Justification Process (Justification of Practices Involving Ionising Radiation Regulations 2004).
- Demonstratable track record in developing or reviewing nuclear justification documents for nuclear new build would be advantageous.
- Experience in undertaking environmental related work for Geological Disposal Facilities (UK GDF or international projects).
- Understanding of Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning Regulations (EIADR).
- Experience in preparing or reviewing Scoping Reports and/or Environmental Statements for nuclear decommissioning would be advantageous.
- Desirable Knowledge of Environmental Management Systems and their applicability to environmental permitting compliance.
- Extensive knowledge of UK and European environmental legislation, particularly the Environmental Permitting Regulations, Industrial Emissions Directive, together with other relevant legislation and guidance.
- Demonstrable history of engagement with regulators (including the ONR, EA/NRW/SEPA, DESNZ, Defra and/or defence regulators e.g. DNSR).
- Demonstrable experience in the management and delivery of Installation, Medium Combustion Plant, or water discharge and trade effluent environmental Permit applications, variations, transfers and surrenders.
- Understanding and experience relating to Development Consent Order activities.
- Delivery of work in wider capabilities such as sustainability, carbon, Life-Cycle Carbon Assessments (LCA) and climate resilience.
Benefits
- Competitive salary with yearly reviews
- 25 days holiday + the opportunity to buy 5 days.
- A company that has its heart in the right place and a welcoming work culture.
- Happy to talk flexible working
- Enhanced parental benefits
- Company pension scheme
- Targeted professional development
- Life assurance
- Private healthcare membership
- Bonus scheme linked into company performance
- Paid membership fees to a professional institution
- Support in attaining professional membership
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season rail ticket loan