We are looking for EIA Coordinator to join our growing EIA/SEA Team.
This is a hybrid role. The positions can be based in our Dublin, Galway, Cork, Sligo, and Kilkenny offices.
About The Team
Our EIA/SEA Team (one of Ireland's leading teams in this sector) delivers high-value technical advisory services in areas as diverse as EIA, AA, SEA, climate change, and sustainability to clients across the transport, water, energy, natural, and built environment sectors.
The RPS EIA/SEA Team has a well-deserved reputation for successfully delivering many of Ireland's most challenging and complex projects through early-stage development.
About The Role
The key responsibilities associated with the role will be:
1. Lead on delivery of EIA/SEA projects;
2. Oversee, guide, and manage junior team members and sub-consultants to deliver project requirements;
3. Take ownership of projects from inception to completion for clients;
4. Prioritize projects while balancing client expectations, available staff resources, and project deadlines;
5. Work with the team on multi-disciplinary projects across a wide range of sectors and liaise with clients and other relevant stakeholders.
About You
Candidates will have 1.5 - 5 years of experience working in a consultancy/regulatory role in the environmental assessment field. A proven track record of working on EIA and/or SEA is essential. Membership of the Institution of Environmental Sciences or similar is desirable.
Key Skills/Attributes
* Familiar with relevant Irish and European planning and environmental legislation e.g. EIA Directive and transposing Regulations.
* Knowledge of the Habitats Directive and the Appropriate Assessment (AA) process is desirable.
* Knowledge of the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is also desirable.
* Experience in coordinating planning applications and associated documentation.
* Excellent organizational and coordinating skills.
* Excellent verbal communication and report writing skills.
* Commercial awareness, ability to define scopes of work and to deliver projects on budget.
* Must have worked as part of a wider team with experience of managing deliverables to deadlines.
* Hard-working, pragmatic, and highly motivated individual - client-focused with good interpersonal skills and a team approach.
Qualifications
Degree in science or engineering with an environmental component. A Master's in a relevant field is desirable but not required.
Why RPS for you?
You will have the choice of work flexibility, with agile offices, hybrid working offered as standard, and industry-leading paid time off. We also offer autonomy in your role, with a purpose-focused culture, excellent social and professional interaction with leaders in their respective fields. The chance to make a real difference in solving some of the biggest challenges facing our society such as climate change and biodiversity loss.
We are an accredited training provider and will support your learning and development. A personal development plan and transparent career pathway puts you in the driving seat of your career, and you will be supported as far as you want to go. This is a workplace that works for you.
A career here is far from ordinary. Here you are not a number; you are part of the solution.
RPS, a Tetra Tech Company
Representing an exciting new chapter in our business, in January 2023 RPS became a Tetra Tech company. With over 28,000 employees in more than 550 offices in more than 120 countries on seven continents, Tetra Tech is a leading global provider of consulting and engineering services. As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to offer our people market-leading development and project opportunities, helping to solve some of the world’s most complex problems.
Our projects are all around you. We define, design, and manage projects that create shared value in a complex, urbanizing, and resource-scarce world. Our people are our success. We need people who share our passion for solving the problems that matter. Where you’ll be supported every step of the way. Here is where you come to build a career.
Recruitment Agencies
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