Principal Built Heritage Consultant  

Get ready for the NEW YEAR.  New year – New Career.

Are you passionate about conservation work and can demonstrate experience of engaging with and consulting a wide range of audiences to support complex projects?

Join as a Principal Built Heritage consultant our talented Heritage team in our growing teams in Newcastle or Leeds offices, as well as taking advantage of our flexible hybrid working model. 

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• Closing date and interview date (if required) 31 January 2024

This position offers you an opportunities to be involved on a range of projects, particularly in our growing renewables market. We are specifically looking for an experienced professional who thrives in a collaborative team environment, willing to contribute to and lead on some of the country’s major infrastructure projects from a built heritage perspective – guiding and steering design teams delivering high quality work.  

Here’s what you’ll do:

Provide Expertise: Provide constructive design and mitigation advice on built heritage aspects of major infrastructure schemes.

Ensure Quality: Delivering desk-based assessments and Environmental Statements. Undertaking research and site visits to inform heritage assessments and setting assessments. Undertaking statutory consultations and liaising with stakeholders

Collaborate: Work closely with clients and AECOM counterparts to secure stakeholder buy-in for solutions, while contributing to AECOM's broader technical capabilities and innovative approaches.

Come grow with us.

Become part of our dynamic Planning & Communities Business in the Environment & Sustainability Business Unit Environment & Sustainability business, which has experts across the UK & Ireland, including 26 heritage specialists across the UK with specialisms in archaeology, historic landscape and built heritage. Collaborate with clients such as National Grid, SSEN, Low Carbon, Severn Trent Water and Harbour Energy to name a few. Projects include Grid modernisation projects, solar farms, water transfer and pipeline projects as well as green ways and active travel schemes.   At AECOM, you’ll thrive in an inclusive and forward-thinking environment where your contributions are valued.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

A relevant first degree and/or post-graduate qualification in historic buildings or a related subject. Appropriate level of membership of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists or the Institute of Historic Building Conservation. Detailed knowledge of UK heritage legislation and policy.  Detailed knowledge of UK built heritage across a range of periods and building types and experience of undertaking the assessment of historic buildings and their setting, and the contribution that setting makes to a building’s significance.