23 Oct
AECOM
Nottingham
Job description
Job Description
Start here. Grow here.
Are you passionate about conservation work and can demonstrate experience of engaging with and consulting a wide range of audiences to support complex projects?
Join as a Principal Built Heritage consultant our talented Heritage team in our growing Croydon, Newcastle, Bristol or Leeds offices, as well as taking advantage of our flexible hybrid working model .
At AECOM, we deliver exceptional projects through long-term partnerships with key clients. This position offers you an opportunities to be involved on a range of projects, particularly in our growing renewables market.
We are specifically looking for an experienced professional who thrives in a collaborative team environment,
willing to contribute to and lead on some of the country’s major infrastructure projects from a built heritage perspective guiding and steering design teams delivering high quality work.
Here’s what you’ll do :
Provide Expertise :
Provide constructive design and mitigation advice on built heritage aspects of major infrastructure schemes. Produce or lead the production of heritage statements, Environmental Impact Assessment chapters, listed building consent applications and other heritage deliverables as required.
Have the confidence to present these to statutory consultees. All work will require a knowledge and understanding of national and local historic environment policy and legislation and a proven track record of successful delivery is essential.
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team, liaising effectively with managers, consultants from other disciplines and other stakeholders as required
- Listed Building Consents
- Carry out Setting Assessments
- Produce Heritage Statements,
ES Chapters and other application documents
- Design review and advice in masterplanning, development design, and local plan / neighbourhood plan site allocations
- Working independently and taking responsibility for programmes of work, conducted safely, and producing high quality reports
- Project Management : Prepare and manage the production of bids using internal systems and operations, and assess design resources within the discipline
Ensure Quality :
- Delivering desk-based assessments and Environmental Statements.
- Undertaking research and site visits to inform heritage assessments and setting assessments
- Undertaking statutory consultations and liaising with stakeholders via telephone, Microsoft Teams and via on site meetings
- Undertaking on site monitoring visits and building recording
Collaborate :
- Work closely with clients and AECOM counterparts to secure stakeholder buy-in for solutions, while contributing to AECOM's broader technical capabilities and innovative approaches.
- Providing optioneering and design advice to client teams
- Working with the wider EIA team, preparing impact assessments, including Environment Statements
If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives.
Why not give our AECOM Environment page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we're working on and see firsthand the difference we're making in the industry!
Come grow with us.
Become part of our dynamic Planning & Communities Business in the Environment & Sustainability Business Unit Environment & Sustainability business, which has experts across the UK & Ireland, including 26 heritage specialists across the UK with specialisms in archaeology, historic landscape and built heritage.
Collaborate with clients such as National Grid, SSEN, Low Carbon, Severn Trent Water and Harbour Energy to name a few. Projects include Grid modernisation projects, solar farms, water transfer and pipeline projects as well as green ways and active travel schemes.
At AECOM, you’ll thrive in an inclusive and forward-thinking environment where your contributions are valued.
And let's not forget about the perks at AECOM. You'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle.
Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.
Qualifications
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?
Here’s what we’re looking for :
- A relevant first degree and / or post-graduate qualification in historic buildings or a related subject
- Appropriate level of membership of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists or the Institute of Historic Building Conservation
- Detailed knowledge of UK heritage legislation and policy
- Detailed knowledge of UK built heritage across a range of periods and building types and experience of undertaking the assessment of historic buildings and their setting, and the contribution that setting makes to a building’s significance
- Experience in heritage consultancy including the production of heritage statements and EIA / DCO experience.
- Experience in costing and project management
- Client focused team player with a positive attitude and ability to work with diplomacy and collaborate effectively
- Ability to manage own time and comfortable working both within a team or alone to tight deadlines
- Supporting with client communications and developing relationships with key contacts,
ensuring a high level of customer service, and ensuring accurate, timely reporting.
- Willingness to work flexibly and travel when required to meet with clients and project teams.
We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities.
If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at ReasonableAdjustments@aecom.
com. At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.
If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!
Additional Information
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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn (annemarieflynn).
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 $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. 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.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
▶️ Principal Built Heritage Consultant
🖊️ AECOM
📍 Nottingham