Principal/associate - Natural Capital - Peterborough, United Kingdom - Atkins

Atkins

Verified Company

Peterborough, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Role location:
Epsom, London, Warrington, Glasgow, Bristol, Peterborough, Oxford, Birmingham

Do you have the drive and technical capability to work with us as a Principal Consultant or Associate in our
Natural Capital and Environmental Economics team, delivering the future of Atkins' service offerings and capability in this area? You can join a respected technical team, and help maintain and grow our reputation for innovation and award-winning technical excellence, while working collaboratively to both win and deliver work across our extensive client portfolio.

We have a deep-rooted passion for protecting natural capital and supporting our clients in meeting pressing challenges including climate change and biodiversity loss, and this is an exceptionally exciting time for you to join us.

Our company

SNC-Lavalin's Atkins business is one of the world's most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies, with over 50,000 employees worldwide.

At Atkins, we offer more than just a job.

We offer an opportunity to make a difference and shape the world to benefit future generations and the natural environment.

Our friendly, collaborative and supportive working environment is a great space to further develop your technical skills, build your career, and work with great people with a shared purpose.

Our team

Our natural capital team offers a unique blend of skills, comprising experts in environmental economics, environmental science and spatial analysis, with an ambitious strategy for continuous innovation and expanding our capability.

We enjoy working collaboratively with our colleagues across the company to deliver projects that bring about real change, drawing on experts from specialist teams such as biodiversity and air quality to deliver our work.

This year we hosted a "Natural Capital and Environmental Economics Day" at a local nature reserve in London, bringing together more than colleagues from across the business to celebrate our successes in this area, share learnings from recent projects, and is a great example of how we support each other's' technical development.

We work for a broad spectrum of clients across the UK and globally, including central and local government, utilities, regulators, the water industry, private estates, developers and NGOs.

Many of our clients are highly ambitious about tackling the climate and biodiversity crises, with recent projects focusing on using nature-based solutions to deliver carbon net zero, introducing beavers as part of natural flood management on a rural estate, and integrating the value of natural assets into investment decision making.

You will have the opportunity to work with and influence our clients directly, supporting them on tackling these challenges.

What we're looking for

Responsibilities

The Individual

You will be a Scientist or Economist, preferably chartered, who has demonstrable experience in natural capital, through either a combination of academic training or on-the-job experience.

Ideally, you will have experience in undertaking economic valuation using a variety of valuation methods to support decision-making.

Some experience of multi-disciplinary project delivery is desirable, as environmental economics will often be an input into a wider project.

You will be self-motivated, flexible and enthusiastic, as well as having:

A degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. Environmental Economics or Environmental Science and Policy) and preferably a relevant post-graduate qualification.
Ideally some experience in project management, winning work and technical leadership of projects.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to adapt your presentation style to different types of audience, including nonspecialists.
Strong organisational skills, an ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and to deadlines.
Excellent collaborative working skills to ensure we get the best from our working relationships with internal and external client teams
Attention to detail and desire to work to high standards consistently

What we offer

Atkins recognises that there are many well-qualified people who are looking to further their career, but who cannot commit to full time employment.

We support flexible working arrangements and welcome discussions on how we can best accommodate individual requirements.

As part of this commitment, we understand the need for a diverse and flexible workforce, where a work-life balance is important.

Atkins offers flexible working, where there is no fixed 9 'til 5, no need for a 5-day week and no requirement to spend all your working time in the office.

Our IT systems support home-working, so where you have parental or carer duties; or you simply need to be elsewhere for a parcel, servicing your car, or waiting in for a tradesperson; Atkins will work for you.

Similarly, Atkins' corporate social responsibility provides the opportunity to