Ecological Compliance and Consents Lead

Ecological Compliance and Consents Lead Full-time State/Province: Hampshire Business Group: DCS Legal Entity: AECOM Limited Business Line: Environment Work Location Model: Hybrid Operating Group: International Primary Location: UK - Basingstoke Company Description Work with Us. Change the World. At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world. We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Start here. Grow here. Are you an experienced ECoW professional looking to lead and grow a nationally significant environmental compliance service? Join our dynamic Nature team as an Associate Director - Environmental and Ecological Compliance Lead to provide technical leadership for our Ecological Clerk of Works (ECoW) and Environmental Clerk of Works (EnvCoW) services across the UK & Ireland. This role can be based in any of our UK office locations, including Basingstoke, Cambridge, and Leeds. A key part of the role will be building and managing a high-quality network of specialist delivery partners. Through strong technical leadership, quality assurance and supply chain development, you will help create a scalable environmental compliance business capable of supporting some of the UK's largest infrastructure projects. Working with contractors, developers and project teams, you will help clients deliver planning, DCO and environmental consent commitments during construction, while acting as a senior technical authority and lead verifier for environmental compliance activities. Here’s what you’ll do: Act as AECOM's UK&I lead for ECoW and EnvCoW services. Act as Lead Verifier for ECoW-related deliverables produced by internal teams and supply chain partners. Ensure projects are appropriately resourced, mobilised and delivered to AECOM's quality standards. Provide expert advice on construction-phase ecological risk management, environmental compliance and consent implementation. Support the growth of the secondary consents service line through your focus on environmental and ecological compliance role. Develop and implement a UK&I supply chain strategy for ECoW, EnvCoW and wider environmental compliance services. Support successful delivery of environmental commitments across major infrastructure projects. Support the growth of wider Clerk of Works services such as arboriculture and archaeology, through integrated environmental compliance solutions. Come & Grow with Us. Become part of AECOM's industry-leading Environment Business Line, working alongside specialists in ecology, environmental assessment, nature-based solutions, arboriculture, archaeology, impact assessment and environmental management across the UK & Ireland. You will have the opportunity to help shape a growing and strategically important service area, working on some of the UK's largest infrastructure and DCO programmes. Our collaborative culture, technical excellence and commitment to innovation provide an exceptional platform for career development and industry leadership. Enjoy the Perks. At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of