Natural Capital - Manchester, United Kingdom - Stantec

Stantec

Verified Company

Manchester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

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Stantec UK provides advisory services in sustainability including net zero carbon management, climate change resilience, natural capital and social value to a range of clients.

We need to build our team further to ensure we can continue to grow and lead in this important, excting and rapidly evolving area.

Currently, we are seeking a natural capital or environmental economist to join us, with flexibility on location and the potential to work with various clients across the UK and Ireland.

We are excited by the potential for growth, and this is a great opportunity to join an ambitious team that will provide you with plenty of scope for career progression in the coming years.

This position offers the right person a fantastic opportunity to play a central role in delivering high-quality economic support services for clients in the water, energy, community development and transport sectors.

Your skills and experience will allow you to provide specialist economics input to consultancy projects relating to sustainability, regulation, carbon management, life cycle analysis, climate change, natural and social capital, and resilience.

You will have the opportunity to support private and public sector clients in growth sectors, as well as to work in interdisciplinary project teams, manage your own workload, contribute to high-quality outputs, support proposals, and participate in external events (e.g., conferences) and write technical papers.

We can offer you great benefits including a competitive remuneration package, a strong culture of learning and development, and a great environment to work in.

As we look to further diversify and grow our wider Stantec UK business you will potentially be presented with future opportunities across our diversified business lines to further your career.

About You

You will be adaptable and flexible, with an ability to understand client needs, think creatively and provide pragmatic advice to meet client needs for sustainable solutions - within time and cost constraints.

You also have the ability to work within a multidisciplinary team and forge new working relationships with clients and stakeholders.

You can demonstrate a good understanding of the range of environmental, social, economic and regulatory issues pertinent to sustainable infrastructure.

You will also have some of the following:

Strong, numerical, analytical and communication skills
Knowledge of UK/international environmental legislation and regulation
Experience in costbenefit assessment or natural capital accounting
Understanding of climate change impacts, asset risk assessment and adaptation
Good commercial awareness, with some experience in managing contracts
Experience working in a multidisciplinary team
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

About Stantec
Stantec is a professional services firm.

Our team of 25,000 global experts provides engineering, architecture, environmental, and project management services across all phases of the project life cycle.

We're designers, engineers, scientists, and project managers, innovating together at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships. Balancing these priorities results in projects that advance the quality of life in communities across the globe.

From large-scale developments to challenging neighbourhood projects, we stretch across our global network to learn from others, offer our support, and gain new experiences along the way.

So while we work to help the communities around us thrive, our own people thrive too.

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment.

Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

At Stantec we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all.

If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process then please inform a member of our Talent Acquisition team.