Description:
NIRAS helps developers and policy makers take the best approach to the development and operation of marine infrastructure, primarily by supporting them on compliance with environmental regulations, offshore spatial planning, marine assessments, consents and related issues. This includes Habitats Regulations assessments, EIA and ESIA, applied R&D, biodiversity net gain measures, emerging UK legislation, and compensation/derogation in relation to UK and European Habitat Regulations.
Key accountabilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Lead on and deliver high quality, high value and complex benthic ecology assignments, advising and consulting with clients and stakeholders.
- Provide technical contributions to projects within areas of benthic ecology expertise, including technical reports, client and stakeholder meetings, workshops or briefing notes as appropriate, demonstrating excellence to the team.
- Support technical teams within ENIN and the wider NIRAS Group in enhancing the quality of their consultancy delivery for the benefit of the company.
- Lead or manage all aspects of medium risk projects, including personnel, finance, scope, timeframes, technical content and outputs, and manage high risk projects with Project Director support.
- Manage project teams and illustrate excellence in project delivery, maximising the commercial and intellectual value to the company.
- Support teams and delegated Project Managers in the management of projects, providing quality assurance to the project process, client interactions and deliverables.
- Contribute to the understanding of NIRAS markets and key clients and use this to identify new opportunities that contribute to the company’s strategic growth.
- Proactively build collaborative relationships with a diverse group of clients, partners and key individuals to achieve objectives and raise NIRAS’ public profile.
- Lead and support internal and external events for the company and its clients such as meetings and workshops, initiatives defined in the company business plan and long-term strategic plan.