Senior or Principal Air Quality Consultant

You will be tasked with delivering high quality technical project work on time and in budget. Key responsibilities will include:

• Completing and assisting senior consultants in conducting air quality and odour assessments and discipline adjacent works including site visits, data analysis, and report writing.
• Management and completion of Air Quality Assessments to support planning applications and environmental permitting.
• Completion of Air Quality and Odour Chapters for Environmental Impact Assessments.
• Completion of other air quality assessment projects for existing and new and emerging markets such as ammonia assessment and fire dispersion modelling assessment.
• Building relationships with clients and across other technical disciplines within Mabbett.
• Undertaking air dispersion modelling using appropriate software packages (ADMS and ADMS Roads).
• Producing accurate air quality GIS maps in QGIS or equivalent.

About the Role

You will work from one of our offices alongside experienced consultants and engineers and may be permitted to work from home on some occasions. In this instance, you will be provided with IT equipment and software/services require to facilitate your efficient home working.

Some travel is involved for which a full, valid U.K. driving licence with clean driver record will be required. Occasionally travel by air will be required for which a valid passport is required. Occasional multi-day site visits will require overnight stays. Our clients are located worldwide but most of your work is likely to be in the UK for the foreseeable future.

Salary will be commensurate with qualifications, experience, and position requirements.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will possess an Honours or Masters Degree in environmental engineering, the physical sciences, geography or similar.

Professional chartership(s) and membership of the IAQM would be viewed favourably.

Experience

For the Consultant role, we would be happy to consider applicants with two to three years’ experience in industry or in a consultancy role. For Senior and Principal roles, we would seek candidates with additional experience.

What we need from you:

• Proficient at using Microsoft Word and Excel
• Having a growth mindset, with a proactive and resourceful approach
• Be self-motivated, and able to work under pressure
• Prioritise and meet deadlines
• Ability to learn new skills quickly
• Ability and willingness to learn from experience and take on greater responsibility
• Commitment and desire to develop personal CPD
• Sound communication and personal effectiveness skills to liaise with colleagues and clients
• Flexibility and willingness to travel to project sites

What we would like from you:

The ideal candidate should have demonstrable interest/experience in one or more of the items listed below:

• Experience in air quality consultancy, with a good understanding of relevant regulatory and planning policy and processes.
• Experience of working on projects and liaising with both clients and statutory consultees for planning applications and environmental permitting.
• Knowledge of UK air quality legislation and policy.
• Experience with dispersion modelling software, preferably ADMS and ADMS Roads.
• GIS experience using software such as QGIS.
• Relevant technical input to EIA screening/scoping reports and full EIA reports.
• Experience in other environmental disciplines, particularly environmental noise, would be viewed favourably. The opportunity to upskill will be available to the successful candidate.