Location
London (UK wide opportunities available)

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

Air transport is vital to the economy and the daily lives of millions—regionally, nationally, and globally. At WSP, we draw on experience from working on over 8,000 aviation projects for more than 350 national and international airports in over 40 countries. We are also proud administrators of ACI’s Airport Carbon Accreditation programme, reinforcing our commitment to sustainable aviation.

As one of the largest environmental consultancies in the UK, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to landmark aviation projects and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. You’ll be encouraged to explore new ideas in a culture that values curiosity and diverse perspectives.

With the continued growth of the UK aviation sector comes increased scrutiny and a more complex consenting environment. As a Senior or Principal Consultant in our Environmental Consents team in London, you’ll play a key role in navigating this landscape—supporting airport expansion through strategic planning, environmental advice, and technical studies.

You will contribute to some of the UK’s most significant and transformative aviation infrastructure projects, delivering services such as planning applications, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), airspace change proposals, and support for Development Consent Order (DCO) examinations and planning inquiries.

This is a strategically significant role offering a challenging and exciting opportunity to identify, win, and deliver multi-disciplinary inputs for aviation projects. We seek individuals with a creative spirit, a dedicated approach, and a solid grounding in environmental design, assessment, and management at any stage of the development project lifecycle.

Join a great organisation where you will collaborate with a diverse team of technical specialists and design professionals to manage environmental contributions across project designs and assessments. You will be instrumental in improving the environmental performance of a range of aviation projects.

The role suits an enthusiastic individual looking to influence, manage, and deliver environmental elements of aviation projects. You will have responsibility for managing projects including bidding, project team management, project delivery, and financial management.

Key responsibilities include managing the delivery of diverse environmental inputs into aviation projects such as planning applications, EIA, airspace change proposals, and support for DCO examinations and/or planning inquiries; delivering EIA screening requests and scoping reports, environmental constraints studies, environmental management plans, and Environmental Statements; building client relationships and identifying opportunities for support in resourcing, programming, strategy development, and project delivery; securing new work through proposal preparation, strategic bid contributions, and business development; supporting innovative techniques such as Digital EIA, Technical Excellence, and Future Ready EIA; inspiring and upskilling junior colleagues; promoting an inclusive workplace; demonstrating strong Health and Safety awareness; and contributing to the success of WSP’s business strategy while being self-motivated towards goals relevant to the role, team, and projects.

Experience
- Demonstrable experience undertaking EIA for aviation schemes with limited supervision under UK planning regimes such as the Town and Country Planning Act and the Planning Act 2008.
- Ability to coordinate tasks across technical teams, clients, stakeholders, and partners, delivering projects on time and within budget.
- Experience leading and contributing to meetings with technical teams, clients, and stakeholders.
- Experience coordinating environmental surveys to support EIA for aviation schemes, including knowledge of associated Health and Safety requirements.
- Experience in bid preparation and responding to client change requests with appropriate fee adjustments for aviation projects.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong report writing and review capabilities, attention to detail, and focus on quality assurance.

About you
- Enthusiastic and dedicated with a creative spirit.
- Strong collaborator able to work with diverse technical specialists and design professionals.
- Motivated to influence, manage, and deliver environmental elements of aviation projects.
- Committed to promoting an inclusive workplace and living the values of health, safety, and wellbeing culture.
- Self-motivated towards achieving goals relevant to the role, team, and projects.

Qualifications
- Relevant environmental degree level qualification in EIA or similar.
- Achieved or demonstrably working towards Practitioner or Chartered Environmental Status.
- Full membership of IEMA or similar qualification with a relevant professional body.