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Are you passionate about finding solutions to environmental, socio-economic and sustainability issues? Are you a skilled EIA specialist and project manager? Do you want to work for one of the most sustainable companies in the world? If so, we would love to hear from you!

Our busy Environmental Planning team has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Environmental Planning Associate Director. We are open to any Stantec office location and offer a hybrid approach to flexible working. The team operates nationwide and provides leading services to the energy, infrastructure, water, residential and commercial sectors. This is an exciting opportunity to help both develop and deliver opportunities, building on the team’s success to date, within a friendly, supportive and inclusive team environment.

About you

You will have excellent technical knowledge and understanding of environmental impact assessment best practice and the ways in which this applies to the UK Planning system.You will have proven experience of all stages of the EIA process (screening, scoping, EIA management & coordination, preparation of Environmental Statements (ES)) and post-submission/determination, ideally within both the Development Consent Order (DCO) and Town & Country Planning (TCPA) regimes.

You should be comfortable leading EIA input to the DCO Examination process on EIA matters (including speaking at Hearings, if required). You will be providing clients and colleagues with environmental planning/consenting strategy and risk advice for a range of developments, undertaking site visits when required. This is a great opportunity to work alongside and manage other professionals and specialists, such as landscape architects, transport engineers, architects and Local Authority representatives. There is also scope to be involved with other related work such as Climate Change impact assessment, Health Impact Assessment, Equalities Impact Assessment and Social Value Strategy.

We are looking for:

• A relevant degree and membership of similar senior role in a consultancy environment or in-house within a relevant industry sector;

• A mix of real estate and energy/infrastructure EIA experience;

• An excellent knowledge of the planning system/process ideally both the Town & Country Planning and Development Consent Order regimes;

• Strong EIA lead consultant experience;

• Ideally experience or interest in one or more of the following: Climate Change impact assessment, Health Impact Assessment, Equalities Impact Assessment, Social Value Strategy, Habitats Regulations Assessment.

We believe that it is our people and their individual talents that make us special. We work within a friendly, inclusive, and supportive culture and one of high support and high challenge, where we are not afraid to take on new and greater responsibilities and are each individually encouraged to grow and flourish both personally and professionally, with genuine career opportunities based on merit. We create a working environment that offers flexibility, adopting a hybrid approach to agile working and offer a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, private health care and a flexi-benefits package allowing you to choose benefits that are truly valuable to you, including the opportunity to buy and sell holiday.

For more information, contact Ruth Hoggett (Talent Acquisition Manager)

Reasonable adjustments

We are an inclusive employer and want to ensure all our applicants have the same opportunity for success. Please inform us of any support or reasonable adjustment you may need as a result of a disability, long term health condition, neurodiversity or other personal circumstances, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability during the recruitment process (for example extra assessment time, visual adjustment, special access request).

Please contact a member of our talent team if reasonable adjustments are required. Our email is Careers.UK&I@stantec.com and a member of our team will be happy to assist.

About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy, and prosperous communities.

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations, or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

For more information on Stantec UK Inclusion & Diversity approach please got to:

Inclusion & Diversity (stantec.com)

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