About The Role
Are you a marine consultant with a background in marine and coastal processes? Are you looking to build on your experience managing teams or workflows and be part of a dynamic and innovative team? Maybe you have previous experience working on marine or coastal infrastructure projects and want to be involved with some of the largest and most exciting infrastructure development projects in the UK? If so, we want to hear from you! APEM Group are actively recruiting an experienced physical processes consultant to be part of our growing team!
About the role As a Principal consultant, you will have the opportunity to work in and help shape a rapidly developing company working on major infrastructure development projects in the UK and Ireland, particularly offshore wind. Using your expertise and understanding of the interaction of marine developments with physical processes, you'll engage with key stakeholders and regulators, leading the delivery of coastal and marine processes related workstreams across a variety of projects at all phases. You will act as a mentor to junior colleagues, planning and managing project workloads and ensuring a culture of growth and innovation within the team. You will provide technical advice, assessment and strategic direction for our existing clients and projects, as well as specialist input and technical support on related workstreams, working closely with the wider division and Group to expand the business across the UK, Europe and worldwide.
Working closely with the Associate Director, you will play a key role in maintaining a centre of excellence for physical processes services, leading by example to ensure high quality and timely delivery throughout projects. You will become a trusted advisor for clients and stakeholders, as well as a mentor for junior staff across the sector and related teams, including having line management responsibilities. Acting as a representative of APEM Group, you'll work closely with other Principal consultants within the Group, developing solution-focused services to our clients, while continuing to expand and apply your existing experience to our ongoing and future project portfolio, helping to expand our technical offering to clients.
You will have: Educated to at least degree level (preferably MSc) in a relevant discipline (Oceanography, Marine Sciences, Geosciences etc.).At least eight years of experience in coastal and/or marine processes, with proven contributions to EIA assessments.Working knowledge of the technical assessments underpinning coastal and/or marine processes (e.g. survey specification & interpretation, sensitivity of geomorphology features, seabed evolution, consequences of changes to physical processes), ideally related to offshore wind farm development.Excellent written and oral communication, organisational and time management skills.Professional manner with strong inter-personal skills and an ability to communicate at all levels.Experienced in managing, responding to, and communicating with both stakeholders and clients.Project delivery experience within wider programmes, input to large, high profile or complex projects.Proven experience in providing both Technical and Quality Assurance reviews to reports and project documents to ensure that they meet the highest technical standards, and the clients aims and objectives.Able to undertake resource management for workflows and/or people.Previous experience in undertaking coastal and marine process work for major infrastructure projects, undertaking CBRA and seabed mobility assessments and/or of working within the planning process, ideally in England, Wales, or Scotland would be beneficial.
You will be offered the chance to work on a variety of projects, many of our employees have worked on projects that have been of personal interest to them. We match this with a commitment to continuous development and learning to support your career. We also offer benefits to look after you, from private medical insurance for all employees, access to mental health first aiders and comprehensive income protection if you cannot work. We also offer superb flexible working options, balancing work with your life.
Next steps We are focused on creating a diverse and inclusive team. If you can't tick every box on our job description, then we are still keen to hear from you and are open to supporting your development. That may be working part time or supporting you to gain experience in a specific area – we are a growing company and are able to adapt roles to reflect individual skills.
If you think you have what it takes to join our fast-growing business, then please apply immediately on our website. All we need is some basic information and your CV; we will review all applications quickly and will respond to all applications.
About Us
The APEM Group is a global environmental consultancy, we work with a range of clients including large corporations and governments to help them understand and solve a wide variety of environmental projects in the UK and globally. Our successful pioneering work has enabled us to grow and combine forces with other businesses who share our ethos and integrity. At our core, our people are working towards the protection of the environment across the globe.
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