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Job Description

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At AECOM, we are currently recruiting for an Environmental Specialist to join our Dublin office.

The environmental specialist will provide comprehensive environmental expertise across the programme and within the Infrastructure Department. Working as part of the strategy team, the role will lead the early integration of environmental assessments and considerations into planning projects and policy submissions; ensure compliance; enhance decision making; and driving positive planning, environmental and sustainability outcomes.

Planning Applications and Process

Support the planning team on environmental matters in the management of planning applications and statutory submissions.
Coordinate and review environmental inputs for planning applications, compliance documentation, and statutory submissions, including post-planning requirements.
Lead or contribute to the preparation of environmental reports, including but not limited to:
- Environmental Impact Assessment Reports (EIAR) and Screening Assessments
- Natura Impact Statements (NIS) / Appropriate Assessments (AA)
- Water Framework Directive Compliance Assessments
- Ecological Impact Assessments (EcIA)
- Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Reports and Screening Assessments
- Sustainability Reports
- Environmental Resource Management Plans
- Construction Environmental Management Plans (CEMP)
- Carbon Assessments

Technical Assessment and Assurance

Provide technical environmental advice to ensure planning and project documentation meets regulatory standards and reflects current legislation, policy, and case law.
Review and assure technical reports, modelling outputs, and drawings to ensure accuracy, consistency, and robust assumptions.

Stakeholder and Regulator Engagement

Support engagement with planning authorities, statutory consultees, and stakeholders on environmental matters, including ongoing reporting where required.
Prepare materials and participate in public consultations and pre-planning meetings, presenting complex technical issues in clear, evidence-based formats.
Coordinate with project managers, planners, engineers, designers, consultants, and environmental specialists across Infrastructure and the daa Group to ensure effective mitigation measures, environmental management, and cross-functional communication.

Environmental Risk and Opportunity Management

Identify, assess, and communicate environmental risks associated with infrastructure projects.
Identify opportunities for environmental improvements during project development, including carbon reduction, resource efficiency, and climate resilience measures.
Track environmental dependencies and critical path items, such as ecological survey windows and seasonal constraints.
Ensure environmental planning conditions are considered and integrated throughout all stages of project development.

Surveys, Data, and Evidence

Scope ecological and environmental surveys; support project managers in commissioning consultants and managing deliverables to ensure robust methodologies and outputs.
Maintain and enhance document control processes, ensuring high data quality, version control, and clear audit trails for environmental decisions.

Policy, Standards, and Continuous Improvement

Monitor relevant Irish and EU legislation, policy, guidance, and case law, updating internal guidance and best practices accordingly.
Identify opportunities to contribute to environmental policy submissions, working collaboratively with other daa departments, including the corporate environmental and sustainability function, to ensure alignment and avoid duplication.
Contribute to the development of standard templates, checklists, and training to promote consistency and efficiency across planning processes.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

We are seeking a highly experienced professional with a strong background in infrastructure and environmental planning.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following qualifications and experience:

A degree in an environmental discipline or planning with a strong environmental focus, along with relevant professional membership or working toward accreditation (e.g. IEMA, CIEEM/CEcol, IPI, RTPI).
Proven experience in environmental assessment and screening processes, including Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Natura Impact Assessment (NIA), Water Framework Directive (WFD) Compliance Assessments, and related environmental evaluations.

Additional Information

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Colum Calnan

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

State/Province: Cork

Business Group: DCS

Legal Entity: AECOM Ireland Limited

Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places

Work Location Model: Hybrid

Operating Group: International

Primary Location: IE - Cork - Montrose House

Enviromental Specialist

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