Environmental Planning and Impact Assessment Director

Do you have a passion for environmental issues and a proven track record in leading Environmental Planning and Impact Assessment (EIA) projects?

We are seeking a Director of Environmental Planning and Impact Assessment to join our Environmental Planning team. In this leadership role, you will play a pivotal role in driving excellence in environmental planning and impact assessment services across all UK&I sectors. This role can be based in any Stantec UK office.

The Opportunity

As Environmental Planning and Impact Assessment Director , you will:

• Lead and shape the future of Stantec’s EIA business and capability, providing technical oversight, guidance, and expert advice to clients.
• Lead and provide expert advice on environmental assessments for your own projects and support colleagues.
• Ensure technical excellence in EIA, including developing internal standards and providing coaching and training.
• Contribute to business development by working with the marketing team to showcase Stantec’s EIA capabilities.
• Oversee compliance of advice and assessment approaches with legislation and policy.
• Support the development of new service lines related to environmental assessment.
• Secure repeat business through your established technical expertise.
• Contribute to pitches and proposals , leading on environmental assessment strategy.
• Act as an arbiter for quality control (QC) issues.
• Contribute to national and regional strategies and business development.
• Provide career development guidance and support team members in achieving their full potential.
• Recruit at a national scale and collaborate with cross-discipline teams.
• Promote learning and development opportunities .
• Build Stantec’s Technical Brand through thought leadership activities.
• Collaborate with specialists across Stantec’s global network.

Who We Are Looking For

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• A relevant degree and membership of a professional institution.
• Experience in a Director-level role within a consultancy or relevant industry sector.
• A mix of real estate and energy/infrastructure EIA experience.
• Excellent knowledge of the UK planning system, including both Town & Country Planning and Development Consent Order regimes.
• Strong EIA lead consultant experience.
• Excellent communication and commercial skills.
• The ability to set strategy, scope, and price consultancy work.
• Strong leadership and coaching skills.
• Willingness to travel nationally where required.
• A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.

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, please contact Ruth Hoggett (Talent Acquisition Manager)

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)

ReqID: 6026

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