Ecological Compliance and Consents Lead

AECOM
Edinburgh
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceSkills: ["Technical leadership","Quality assurance","Risk management","Stakeholder engagement","Commercial awareness"]

Provide technical leadership for ecological clerk of works (ECoW) and environmental clerk of works (EnvCoW) services across the UK & Ireland. Serve as UK&I lead and lead verifier for environmental compliance deliverables, ensuring projects are appropriately resourced and meet quality standards. Advise on construction-phase ecological risk management and consent implementation, while building specialist delivery partner networks and supporting growth of secondary consents and wider clerk of works services.

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Ecological Compliance and Consents Lead

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Job Summary

Provide technical leadership for ecological clerk of works (ECoW) and environmental clerk of works (EnvCoW) services across the UK & Ireland. Serve as UK&I lead and lead verifier for environmental compliance deliverables, ensuring projects are appropriately resourced and meet quality standards. Advise on construction-phase ecological risk management and consent implementation, while building specialist delivery partner networks and supporting growth of secondary consents and wider clerk of works services.
Location: Edinburgh
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Act as AECOM’s UK&I lead for ECoW and EnvCoW services.
  • •Act as Lead Verifier for ECoW-related deliverables produced by internal teams and supply chain partners.
  • •Ensure projects are appropriately resourced, mobilised, and delivered to AECOM quality standards.
  • •Provide expert advice on construction-phase ecological risk management, environmental compliance, and consent implementation.
  • •Develop and implement UK&I supply chain strategy, supporting delivery of environmental commitments and growth of related clerk of works service lines.

Key Requirements

  • •Experience delivering Environmental and/or Ecological Clerk of Works (ECoW) services on major infrastructure, utilities, or development projects.
  • •Strong understanding of construction-phase ecological and environmental compliance requirements.
  • •Knowledge of required environmental/ecological secondary consents, including planning conditions, Development Consent Orders (DCOs), environmental permits, and protected species licensing requirements.
  • •Experience reviewing, assuring, and approving environmental compliance deliverables as a senior technical lead/quality reviewer.
  • •Membership of CIEEM or an equivalent professional body, preferably chartered (or working towards chartership).
Experience:InfrastructureUtilitiesDevelopment projectsEnvironmental complianceEcologyConstruction-phase compliance
Skills:Technical leadershipQuality assuranceRisk managementStakeholder engagementCommercial awareness
Certifications:CIEEM
Languages:English

Company Brief

AECOM
AECOM is a global infrastructure firm providing design, consulting, construction, and management services across transportation, buildings, water, environment, and energy sectors, delivering large-scale projects for public- and private-sector clients worldwide.
Industry: Civil Engineering
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Los Angeles, United States
Founded: 1990
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