Senior Air Quality Professional

To meet our clients growing UK business needs and future development aspirations we are looking for a Senior/Technical Director- Air Quality (depending on experience). The position will ideally be based in either Manchester, London, Leeds, Berkshire or Birmingham however alternative office locations will be considered for suitably qualified candidates.  

Applications are welcomed from candidates who are seeking reduced hours contracts and those returning from a career break. They offer flexible working patterns and will discuss these options and the support available with candidates at interview.  

The successful person will become part of a respected and ambitious company with excellent career prospects and international opportunities.  

Responsibilities will include;  

- Provide Air Quality consultancy services for a range of environmental projects for key public and private sector clients.  

- Provide robust technical advice to clients on compliance with environmental regulations and issues related to Environmental Impact Assessment and Permitting.  

- Work closely with clients’ technical specialists to incorporate detailed aspects of scheme design within environmental assessments.  

- Maintain their high quality of environmental deliverables whilst working within project budgets and timescales.  

- Support, develop and maintain client relationship.  

- Actively support business development activities.  

- Work closely with their India team and UK team to develop capability.  

- Mentor less experienced members of the team, including in UK and India.  

Essential:  

- A good degree qualification in a relevant environmental/natural science or engineering discipline.  

- Relevant UK experience in Air Quality road/highway assessment work. This will include Air Quality Assessments for highways schemes or other substantial road transport schemes.  

- A track record of successful delivery of Air Quality projects to key public and private sector clients.  

- Proven ability to work within large multidisciplinary teams.  

- Proven ability to conduct technical work within budgetary and time constraints.  

- Ability to develop and follow safety procedures / method statements produced by both Jacobs and client organisations.  

- An excellent understanding on relevant UK technical guidance including the DMRB, LAQM Technical Guidance and relevant documents from the IAQM and EPUK.  

- Proven ability to use Air Quality models (such as ADMS, ADMS-Roads, ADMS Urban, Aermod, AirViro, CALROADS, CMAQ and CALPUFF).  

- Highly proficient in the use of standard office software (Word / Excel / Powerpoint).  

- Experience working to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards.  

Desirable:  

- Candidates should have, or be working towards, chartered membership of a recognised professional institution.  

- Detailed understanding of wider infrastructure and technical professional services business.  

- Experience working across multiple business sectors.  

- Ability to interpret environmental regulations and guidance.  

- Experience of working on major road schemes.  

- A track record in successful business development and /or the management of air quality teams.  

- The candidate should be willing to work out of other offices and at client sites in the UK as required  

- A full UK driving license would be preferred.  

- Able to develop Excel based spreadsheet solutions to efficiently manipulate large and complex datasets.  

- Experience working with GIS packages and statistical software (such as the Openair package in R).  

- An understanding of the output from traffic models and methods for manipulation  

- Emergency First Aid Qualification.