Environmental Consultant

Environmental Consultant

Location: Edinburgh

Reference: BY1527

Salary: £30,000 - £35,000

Do you have consultancy experience in an environmental discipline? Interested in finding your place in the renewable energy industry? This is the position for you! An Environmental Consultancy working on exciting, new and industry-leading onshore wind and solar projects is seeking an experienced consultant to join the team.

The Environmental Consultant will be working with a team of approximately 15 people on various EIAs around the Central Belt on onshore wind farm, solar, and battery energy projects. You'll be largely office-based (with some site visits) acting as the technical lead for a team of Environmental Consultants - running projects, carrying out technical desktop assessments, project managing, training more junior team members, contributing to business development, report writing, and some bidding and tendering.

The Environmental Consultant position offers:

1. An excellent salary (£30,000 - £35,000).
2. Enhanced pension scheme and company benefits.
3. Hybrid working available.
4. Opportunities to move your career into a specialist or broad industry with fantastic training opportunities.
5. Varied projects and project leading opportunities due to the niche team size.
6. Sociable and welcoming company.

To be considered for this Environmental Consultant position you should:

1. Have experience working in Environmental Consultancy (preferably in the Renewable Energy industry, although this is not essential. Other disciplines considered include EIA, Air Pollution, Planning, Geo-environmental & Geotechnical consulting).
2. Have a degree in renewable energy, physical geography, environmental science, geology or another relevant subject (preferably to MSc level).
3. Be commutable to Edinburgh and surrounding sites.
4. Hold a full UK Driving Licence.
5. Have full right to work in the UK.

If you are interested in this or other Environmental/Remediation roles please do not hesitate to contact Beth on (url removed) or call (phone number removed). We have many more vacancies available on our website. Please refer to (url removed). This is a permanent role. Penguin Recruitment is operating as a Recruitment Agency in respect to this position.