Principal Environmental Consultant

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

Are you passionate about improving the environmental performance of infrastructure development projects and helping Ireland to deliver its net zero commitments? If so, we’d love to hear from you at AECOM.

We are looking for a Principal Environmental Consultant to join our Ireland team. By joining us you will work daily with technical experts within our established (Environmental) Impact Assessment team which comprises over 170 staff across the island of Ireland and the UK. We are a founding member of the Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals (ISEP, formerly IEMA) EIA Quality Mark, whilst everything we do aligns with our environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy.

Aswe are a national team, we are flexible in terms of office location – this includes offices in Dublin, Cork and Galway as well as taking advantage of our flexible hybrid working model.

At AECOM, we’re at the forefront of innovation, delivering an exceptional portfolio of projects through long-term partnerships and frameworks with key clients. This position offers an opportunity to be involved in large-scale development projects that are transforming our infrastructure – this includes:

• Highway development and improvement schemes and greenway projects;
• Regional transportation infrastructure development projects;
• Strategic national and regional rail and light rail projects;
• Energy generation projects, including renewables (solar farm, onshore windfarm and battery storage projects), carbon capture and storage, and hydrogen;
• Energy distribution,transmission and infrastructure projects;
• Water distribution and infrastructure projects;
• Regeneration projects, including port side developments;
• Developments within the ecommerce, minerals and waste, water, aviation, commercial/ residential and industrial sectors.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Provide Expertise: As a Principal Environmental Consultant you’ll manage environmental inputs to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Screening and Scoping reports, EIA Reports, Environmental Considerations Reports  and supporting documents, including the technical review of specialist chapters. You’ll be involved in all project life stages, from early client engagement and strategy development and site identification studies, through feasibility, optioneering/ option selection, outline design, to detailed design, discharging of conditions, construction, and scheme operation/ maintenance. You’ll have the opportunity to work across a portfolio of development projects covering multiple consenting regimes (including Local Planning Authority, An Coimisúin Pleanála, Strategic Infrastructure Development (SID).).
• Ensure Quality: Your role requires a critical eye for detail to ensure that our deliverables are produced to the highest quality standards.
• Project Management: Make effective use of your project management skills, appropriately managing resources and budgets (with support as applicable).
• Collaborate: You will work as part of integrated design teams to improve the environmental outcomes of our projects – you will identify environmental constraints, identify impact avoidance and mitigation solutions, as well as opportunities to deliver benefits.
• Client Contact: Your role will require the management of client relationships and internal supply teams.
• Growth: You will promote AECOM’s environmental services to both internal and external audiences. You will identify and lead business development opportunities and associated fee and technical proposal development.

Come grow with us.

Become part of our dynamic to join our Environment & Sustainability business that has over 650 staff working across Ireland and the UK. Collaborate with top-tier experts to deliver a variety of captivating projects and actively promote AECOM’s environmental services to both internal and external audiences. At AECOM, you’ll thrive in an inclusive and forward-thinking environment where your contributions are valued.

And let's not forget about 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 career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here's what we are looking for:

You’ll need to be able to demonstrate interest and experience of managing and coordinating multidisciplinary environmental inputs to infrastructure development projects. You should also have:

Environmental Assessment & Regulatory Expertise

• Excellent understanding of EIA processes, environmental assessment methods, and applicable planning legislation.
• Detailed understanding of relevant Ireland consenting and licensing regimes.

Consultancy, Stakeholder & Communication Skills

• Experience providing consultancy services.
• Confidence engaging with a wide variety of stakeholder groups.
• Excellent verbal communication and report-writing skills, including technical review.

Project & Team Leadership

• Ability to work collaboratively within an established Environment team and coordinate specialist technical inputs.
• Project management skills, including programme planning, resource management, and budget management.

Qualifications & Professional Development

• Degree in a relevant environmental discipline (preferably a Master's degree).
• Appropriate professional membership.
• Chartered Environmentalist status (or working towards achieving it) — desirable.

Personal Attributes & Mobility

• Willingness to travel.
• Interest in line management responsibilities and staff mentoring — desirable.

Additional Information

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives. Why not follow our AECOM Environmental services page on LinkedIn to stay updated on the impactful projects we're working on and see firsthand the difference we're making in the industry!

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn  Anne Marie Flynn | LinkedIn

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.