Job Description

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Environment Consultant specialising in stakeholder engagement and consultation to support the GTC Planning, Environmental Consenting and Communities (PECC) discipline for high-profile infrastructure projects across the UK. You will work closely with clients, multidisciplinary engineering teams, and statutory authorities to navigate complex environmental pathways and build community consents.

This role offers a unique opportunity to shape major developments in the road, rail, utilities, water, environment, and energy sectors from inception through to delivery.

Your role 

• Analyse and interpret quantitative and qualitative feedback, translating data into key consenting and environmental themes.
• Create compelling, accessible and visually engaging consultation materials, including public-facing communications, exhibition boards, summaries, and digital content that clearly articulate complex information.
• Support and draft consenting inputs for major infrastructure projects, demonstrating familiarity with relevant legislation (such as DCOs, TWAOs, or DNS).
• Work collaboratively within multidisciplinary project teams, coordinating input from project managers, EIA specialists, engineers, legal advisors, and planners to ensure alignment with consenting requirements, programme milestones, and wider project objectives.
• Support projects from end to end, ensuring deliverables are met on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.

About you

• More than six years of experience delivering large-scale stakeholder and community engagement programmes for major infrastructure projects, ideally within the UK or similar frameworks. Proven expertise in stakeholder engagement on complex, multidisciplinary projects across sectors such as roads, rail, utilities, water, environment, or energy.
• Experience working with statutory consultees, local authorities, community groups, and other affected stakeholders.
• Experience in desk-based community needs assessments and baseline studies.
• Experience in preparing large-scale infrastructure Environmental and Social Management plans.
• Experience in consultation data management, analysis, and visualisation (e.g. consultation dashboards, Power BI, stakeholder metrics, and reporting).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor content for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Postgraduate qualification (preferably a master’s) in Public Policy, Environmental Planning, or Environmental Stakeholder Management.
• Strong attention to detail and highly detail-oriented individual.

Reward & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

This includes:

• Comprehensive life insurance coverage.
• Premium medical insurance for you and your dependents.
• Generous annual leave balance.
• Flexible and hybrid work solutions.
• Remote work opportunities outside of country.
• Company gratuity scheme.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Relocation assistance.
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.
• Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.