Job description

Environmental Consultant - EIA - Marine Mammals
This is a great opportunity to join a growing consultancy as a Senior Environment Consultant. You will provide scientific, consenting, advisory and strategic consultancy, often in collaboration with the other discipline-led divisions.
Responsibilities
You will be part of the Environmental Impact Assessment team working on complex offshore EIA and HRA assessments. You will be an experienced consultant and will help lead marine mammal assessments, mentor junior specialists, and support our subject matter experts in delivering exceptional outcomes for clients.
In this role, you will:

• Lead and quality assure Marine Mammal chapters for EIAs and HRAs;
• Provide technical leadership across marine mammal impact assessment, underwater noise, survey methods, and mitigation design;
• Support project delivery on a wide range of offshore consenting work, including wind, tidal, carbon capture and subsea infrastructure projects;
• Project manage scopes and liaise with clients and stakeholders; and
• Support us in maintaining best practice standards, client relationships, and industry leadership.

Requirements
Essential Experience & Qualifications

• Experience as an environmental consultant in offshore wind, tidal, or marine energy consenting or equivalent experience
• Strong track record in authoring EIA and HRA marine mammal assessments for offshore projects, as well as protected species licensing
• Master's degree or higher in marine biology, ecology, zoology, quantitative ecology, or related field
• Proven expertise in marine mammals and underwater sound, and a strong understanding of stakeholder concerns including those of regulators and nature conservation bodies
• Solid understanding of survey and monitoring techniques
• Good working knowledge of mitigation measures to reduce impacts on marine mammals
• Confident communicator with excellent analytical and writing skills

Desirable Skills

• Experience with population modelling and/or collision risk modelling

For more information, please contact Barrie Dempster on 01202 888986 or email bdempster@allen-york.com

About us: Allen & York have been matching purposeful people with purpose-led organisations for 30 years. We partner with our clients and candidates on roles that build an understanding of climate change, promote sustainability and create inclusive and responsible organisations, working towards a sustainable world for us all. Committed to inclusiveness in the workplace, we aim to increase diversity across all areas and therefore welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, or whether or not they have a disability. Let's help build a better world, together.