Job Description

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate high level atmospheric modelling skills, a clear understanding and knowledge of urban air quality issues, regulatory requirements for emissions to air, ambient monitoring, and have the ability to work well in a team and have excellent communication and report writing skills.

Our UK air quality team delivers a range of exciting and varied projects across Europe, Middle East and Africa region. We work in multi-disciplinary teams delivering solutions to a broad base of client sectors including residential/commercial development, energy, oil and gas, water, manufacturing, government, transportation and infrastructure. There are opportunities to support our clients through the full spectrum of project services including EIA, impact assessment, monitoring, due diligence, occupational exposure assessments, risk management, monitoring and the drafting of good practice guidance.

Our clients are from the private and public sector and include Highways England, TfL, BP, INEOS, Thames Water, Local and national government departments, as well as leading UK contractors and developers.

We have an impressive portfolio of major national and international infrastructure projects. A selection of our current and recent projects includes:

+ Clean Air Zone assessment for several UK public sector clients

+ Local Air Quality Management (LAQM) services for numerous councils

+ Development and implementation of the Regulatory Air Compliance Management Program for Kuwait Oil Company

+ Baseline, early works and construction monitoring for Thames Tideway Tunnel

+ Air quality assessment for Highways England for the Smart Motorway Programme

+ Air quality assessments for numerous commercial developments


+ Technical and commercial leadership

+ Business development and innovation

+ Undertaking air quality impact assessments

+ Use of dispersion modelling to predict air quality impacts using models such as AERMOD and ADMS

+ Managing ambient and workplace monitoring studies

+ You will have strong development skills and have the ability to develop and manage the work of others – working in teams is vital to working in AECOM

+ Have the technical ability, knowledge and competence to provide guidance to teach and develop junior staff.

+ Ability to work collaboratively and iteratively within a multi-disciplinary design team.

+ Establishing strong working relationships with other internal teams, particularly within AECOM’s transportation division

+ Responsibility for developing health and safety risk assessments for site work to ensure personal and team safety.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

+ Experience completing air quality assessments for road schemes, residential and commercial developments, LAQM studies. + Permitting and compliance for industrial facilities would be beneficial + You will have previous work experience in a similar role and be enthusiastic with excellent report writing skills. + You will have high level dispersion modelling skills + You will have a good understanding of ambient air quality monitoring + You should be able to demonstrate GIS or programming skills + Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite + Degree level in a relevant numerical science or engineering discipline and ideally holding a postgraduate qualification + Full membership of a relevant professional body or certificate of successful completion of professional training, such as IAQM, RMetS; IMechE, BOHS, would also be of interest as evidence of relevant experience.