Marine Consents Specialist
Marine Consents Specialist
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Job Description
Job Description
Join a global professional services leader committed to solving the worlds biggest challenges across energy transport utilities and urbanisation.
GHD is one of the worlds leading professional services companies operating in the global markets of water energy and resources environment property and buildings and transportation.
Privately owned by our people GHD provides engineering architecture environmental and construction services to private and public sector clients across five continents. Focused on creating lasting community benefit our connected global network of over 12000 people delivers projects with high standards of safety quality and ethics.
The Role
Are you an experienced environmental consultant ready to dive deeper into marine and offshore project delivery GHD Advisory is seeking a Marine Consents Specialist to join our expert team delivering high-impact solutions to clients in the marine environment sector.
This is a project-focused role where youll lead or support environmental permitting and consent activities for major offshore developmentsincluding offshore wind and other marine infrastructure. Youll bring a strong foundation in environmental legislation combined with practical experience in preparing and managing Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) permitting applications and regulatory engagement.
As part of a growing business unit this role also offers the opportunity to influence strategic growth mentor junior staff and help expand our footprint in the marine consents spaceboth in the UK and globally.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as Project Manager or technical lead on environmental permitting aspects of marine and offshore projects.
- Provide strategic advice and technical support to internal teams and clients during all project stages including early planning and pre-application phases.
- Lead or contribute to the delivery of marine EIAs permitting documentation and environmental and social due diligence assessments.
- Represent GHD in internal technical working groups and stakeholder engagements with regulators clients and industry partners.
- Support the development of bids and proposals acting as a subject matter expert to help win and shape new business opportunities.
- Prepare and deliver concise high-quality reports presentations and briefings tailored to client and regulatory requirements.
- Represent GHD at industry events conferences and client forums to build relationships and stay informed of emerging trends.
Key Skills & Experience Required
- A Bachelors degree or higher in Environmental Science or a related discipline.
- 5 years of experience in marine environmental consulting with a strong focus on consents permitting or regulatory compliance.
- Proven track record delivering environmental impact assessments and consenting strategies ideally including DCO (Development Consent Order) applications or equivalent.
- In-depth knowledge of UK environmental legislation relevant to offshore infrastructure projects.
- Experience with international consenting for marine or offshore wind projects is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with environmental and social risk management frameworks (e.g. IFC Performance Standards) is advantageous.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills with the ability to engage and influence a wide range of stakeholders.
- Strong technical writing data interpretation and project coordination capabilities.
- Comfortable working across diverse teams and managing complex multi-disciplinary projects.
Why Join GHD
At GHD were passionate about creating lasting community benefit through sustainable infrastructure solutions. When you join our advisory team youll work alongside industry leaders contribute to transformative projects and grow your career in a supportive and flexible environment. Whether youre influencing marine policy or delivering cutting-edge offshore developments your expertise will help shape a better tomorrow.
Our Commitment to you
Commitmentis a powerful word that defines how we do business how we serve our clients and how we care for one another. We will support your needs by giving you the tools to do your best work and then recognise your achievements. We will set your curiosity free to allow brilliant minds to do their best work. We will invest in new ideas removing barriers where we can. Finally we will encourage you to collaborate with thousands of diverse people across our global business.
Equality diversity and inclusion lies at the heart of our team culture.We operate a flat intellectual hierarchy meaning every voice is heard and has genuine influence. We believe deeply in diversity of race gender sexual orientation religion ethnicity national origin and experience and we recognise the value this brings our collective team approach to solving challenging client problems.
Inclusionis hugely important to us and we want to ensure every team member can balance work around their unique personal circumstances. In addition to a competitive salary we offer a wider variety of benefits to support you including 25 days paid leave with opportunity to purchase additional leave matched pension contributions and family-friendly flexible working. We will advocate for your profession development and provide access to formal education through the GHD Business School and practical application through technical delivery. We actively promote inclusion and equity focussed initiatives with the example of our STEMAZING partnership which offers STEM outreach programmes for women.
Working Location
This is a hybrid role with an expectation of an average of 2 days per week working at one of our offices in London Manchester Chester Guildford or Newcastle.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full Time
