Principal Environmental Consultant

About Five Rivers

FiveRivers are a widely recognised industry specialist in the consultation, design and
implementation of ecological and environmental solutions. With over 25 years’ working with
nature, the business is experiencing sustained growth in our design and build offering. Our
mission is to deliver innovative nature based solutions through investing, protecting and
enhancing our natural capital, its in our nature.

The team

The Design and Build (D&B) business unit at 5R consists a team of in house specialists
working nationwide, delivering projects from concept through to build by our in-house
contracting team. The team deliver projects that aim to protect and/or enhance the natural
environment in line with our company mission, supporting broad range of clients and sectors
with their environmental projects. 

Our specialism is in the delivery of projects in the water environment, with a holistic
understanding of the interface between land and water and the sensitive management of
catchments and their varied stakeholders. An example of our design and build projects include:
wetlands creation for nutrient mitigation, natural flood management, river restoration and
habitat enhancement, fish passage and easements. 

Sustainability is at the core of our projects and 5R values, and we seek the implementation of
nature based solutions for societies problems, with designs focused on working with natural
processes providing benefits for people and the environment. 

The role – Principal Environmental Consultant

We have an exciting role available for an experienced Principal Consultant to join our growing
team of passionate people delivering a diverse portfolio of projects. As an integral member of
the D&B team you will be involved in monitoring resources, managing budgets, mentoring and
developing staff, project management, client liaison and relationship management, You will also
be involved in the preparation of successful bids and tender proposals and general business
development activities. Your role will include leading and coordinating projects from design
concept to detailed design, providing our clients with build ready schemes that impart our real
world buildability we are known for. 

About you

The position requires a wide range of skills including, but not limited to the following:

• Proactive and ambitious, with a proven history of understanding client’s environmental
  needs and identifying solutions. Focussed on added value for our clients, the environment and
  society you will have a core skills to influence people and project outputs. 
• Complimentary to your technical knowledge and environmental credentials will be your
  commercial acumen, identifying opportunities for business development and influencing decisions
  made at team level. 
• You will be experienced at the preparation of fee estimates, proposal writing and general
  business development activities
• Excellent organisational and time-management skills, with demonstrable experience of
  managing several projects at any one time. Management of people and project deliverables with
  ensure successful leadership of technical outputs, providing coordination and management of all
  stages of the design process.
• You will be adept at the coordination of multiple inputs from different technical teams and
  external stakeholders, balancing the needs of all and prioritising outputs from your team of
  people. 
• You will be knowledgeable in and have a robust understanding the role of designer under
  Construction Design Management (2015) .