Senior Environmental Management and Environmental

**Your Impact**:
At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

**About the Opportunity**

Our Water, Energy and Environment business provides a focus for advising our clients on sustainability issues including renewable energy, low carbon economies, impacts of climate change and waste and resource management. Our environmental capabilities comprise of in excess of 1000 staff based predominantly in the UK, but with reach into the Middle East and in India.

To meet our growing UK business needs and future development aspirations we are looking for a Senior Sustainability Professional, specialising in environmental management and permitting. The role will be based at one of our Jacobs UK offices.

The successful person will become part of a respected and ambitious company with excellent career prospects and international opportunities. We recognise that professional and personal development is a continuous process, and you will be enrolled on a range of in-house training courses and encouraged to progress your career, raising your profile within and outside the organisation.

As a Senior Environmental Management and Permitting Professional, you will sit within the Environmental Management and Compliance team and work with other internal teams to provide sustainable solutions as part of the projects and proposals we work on. We expect a strong background in environmental permitting, as well as the ability to draw on wider environmental and sustainability areas to provide effective solutions for the client.

This role will be to provide technical expertise and advice in relation to environmental permitting management and compliance within client organisations across infrastructure, manufacturing and service sectors. This role offers the opportunity to work with a diverse portfolio of Jacobs’ high-profile clients and contribute to the implementation of projects across large and complex estates and processes.

We are seeking an individual with the flexibility and desire to support projects across all sectors. An essential part of this role will be to scope technical solutions, provide practical support and deliver projects that will improve the performance of our client organisations in relation to various aspects of environmental management.

**Our Culture**

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s - find out more about our employee networks here.

**Here’s What You’ll Need**: Essential**:

- A good degree qualification in a relevant environmental/natural science;
- Significant experience of environmental permitting across a range of industry and business sectors;
- Strong technical skills in sustainability and environmental management;
- Strong data analysis and validation skills;
- Excellent report writing skills and substantial experience of report writing, presentations and workshop delivery;
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills;
- Staff/resource management capability;
- A focus and desire to work safely;
- Flexibility to work bet