Senior Air Quality Consultant

I’m recruiting a Senior/Principal Air Quality Consultant for a leading independent safety, environment and engineering consultancy that offers the following benefits:

Hybrid & Flexible Working, Competitive Salary & Annual Review, Generous Holiday Entitlement, Company Pension, Discretionary Merit Bonus Scheme, Income Protection Policy, Company pool cars for business travel, Group Life Assurance (4 x Salary), Sponsored Company Social Events, Volunteering Day, Cycle to Work Scheme, Electric Vehicle Car Scheme, Paid Professional Membership, Continuing Professional Development, and Enhanced Company Maternity & Family Leave.

We are looking for a highly motivated and driven individual to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for completing technical reports in line with current local and national policy, industry guidance and providing client support. Assisting our senior consultants in providing high-quality air quality assessment and odour services to our clients.

Key Responsibilities

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.

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 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.