EHS Junior Consultant / Consultant

Location: United Kingdom Department: Consulting

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description

We are looking for an ambitious, technically strong EHS professional, who is comfortable in being client facing and committed to growing a career in Consultancy. You will be focussed on helping our clients drive their occupational H&S and Environmental performance across a range of diverse sectors such as finance, industrial, manufacturing, transport, oil and gas, infrastructure, chemical, construction, aviation, local and central government.

As part of our Resilience team, you’ll help improve quality of life. With your specialism in H&S and environmental management, or your technical or sustainability expertise, your work could involve protected species, pollution, surface water and materials management, air quality or noise. And in some of the world’s busiest and most beautiful locations.

We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations

Role accountabilities

Your role will be based in our HSE Advisory team, delivering excellent Occupational/Workplace H&S and Environmental support in a diverse range of projects, from large Arcadis multi-disciplinary projects to smaller local clients.

The role will also include supporting clients on the development of digital solutions (SharePoint design, Microsoft Forms, Power Apps, Power BI Dashboarding etc), this can be for many different organisations or providing competent EHS assistance/person functions either as support functions of secondments into businesses or projects.

The role also has close links with transactional services, so, a broad range of opportunities working on occupational workplace H&S and environmental due diligence works/gap analysis.

You will be actively encouraged to challenge yourself, learn new things, and use your skills wherever they can make an impact across the extents of our Sustainability business.

The role is flexible around office or home/office hybrid working (40%/60%). Shorter periods of time spent on-site at our client’s properties may be required, and occasional short term international/European travel may also be required. Opportunities may also arise for our staff to immerse themselves in our client’s businesses in part or full-time secondment roles.

Essential Experience

Clean and UK Driver's License

Experience as an EHS Consultant, EHS Advisor, EHS Manager or within a SHEQ function.

Strong experience providing competent advice on UK & Ireland EHS legislation and compliance requirements.

Proven delivery of

Health & Safety Management Systems (ISO 45001/HSG65)

Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001)

Internal audits and inspections

Accident investigations

Environmental audits and waste audits

Health and wellbeing management (stress, anxiety and depression)

Asbestos management

Construction and refurbishment projects

Environmental permitting requirements

EHS training development and delivery

Professional Qualifications

Membership of IOSH or ISEP, ideally

CMIOSH/Graduate IOSH/Tech IOSH, or

ISEP Graduate or Associate level with progression towards higher membership

Ideally qualified as an

ISO 45001 Lead Auditor, and/or

ISO 14001 Lead Auditor

Continue your career journey as an Arcadian.

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You do meaningful work, and no matter where your next role in Arcadis takes you, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark; on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success

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