Principal Consultant

Jacobs London, England Dec 24, 2025

Type Full Time
Pay Not listed
Work Hybrid
Level Senior

Principal Consultant focuses on take a lead role in environmental impact assessment and consenting delivery.

What the role involves

  • Take a lead role in Environmental Impact Assessment and Consenting delivery.
  • Support to ensure the technical and personal development of colleagues.
  • An active champion of innovative thinking to improve project and legacy outcomes.
  • With safety and flexibility always top of mind, we’ve gone beyond traditional ways of working so you have the support, means and space to maximize your potential.
  • If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please conta.

Skills and requirements

  • Progressive experience of delivering Environmental Impact Assessments.
  • Demonstrable experience in client facing roles, comfortable engaging in proactive consultation with key stakeholders.
  • Established project management and governance experience, with a history of ensuring health, safety and security and inclusivity is embeded into project legacy and decision making.
  • Your application experience is important to us, and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better.

Confirmed role details

  • We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best.

Candidate fit

  • Chartered status and Full Membership of a recognised relevant professional body (e.g. IEMA, CIWEM, IES).

Additional role context

  • Identifying, managing and mitigating risks to project delivery.
  • Governance and compliance management of relevant environmental legislation and policy.
  • Collaborative stakeholder engagement across all aspects of the sustainability, environmental and consenting processes.
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