Principal Consultant - Sustainable Waste Management

Along with competitive salaries, our staff enjoy a comprehensive benefits package with a company pension plus excellent healthcare offering, travel and life insurance, critical illness cover and a structured career framework with regular reviews offering outstanding opportunities for progression. Alongside 25 days' annual leave, we offer flexible, agile and hybrid working which enables staff to tailor hours worked around core hours, and our family friendly policies help balance the needs of professional and family life.
The Sustainable Waste Management team has extensive experience of providing practical advice across municipal, household, commercial, industrial, hazardous, agricultural, and mining waste. Our specialisms are expanding to meet the challenges associated with sustainability, circular economy and mitigation of climate impacts, ensuring that we continue to provide comprehensive resource management services to our clients.
Our technical service offerings include:
Public sector waste support (e.g. strategy development, options analysis, service improvement and contract procurement)
Private sector waste support (e.g. bid development)
Advice to the financial sector (e.g. due diligence, market assessment)
Advice to construction companies and waste technology providers (e.g. carbon assessments, waste management plans)
Waste logistics
Circularity and sustainability studies
The role
You will have the opportunity to lead project management and delivery tasks and take an active role in bid development and business development activities. You will be confident in leading waste data management tasks, and developing waste flow modelling and carbon assessments.
Play a leading role in the ongoing growth of the Sustainable Waste Management team, identifying and reacting to opportunities identified using both reactive and proactive approaches
Keep abreast of latest developments across the UK waste sector, including policy / legislative drivers, new infrastructure developments, secondary materials market dynamics and commercial trends
Support local authority clients through service reviews, identifying and presenting service improvement opportunities, legislative compliance, best practice and innovation
Provide technical advisory support for local authority and private sector clients within contract procurement projects, including the development of tender documentation for contractors
Contribute to the development of high quality, successful bid submissions to meet SLR's strategic and financial objectives
Manage projects to ensure client and business objectives are achieved, including proactively tracking budgets and forecasts
Support and develop junior staff to provide capacity within the team and widen capabilities
The post holder must be comfortable and confident in engaging with internal and external clients and stakeholders at all levels, including managing and delivering workshops and presenting project outcomes.
This position offers a fantastic opportunity for an experienced resources and waste management specialist to play a lead role in driving the business forward. It will also provide the opportunity to make a difference by supporting clients in developing sustainable solutions in response to resource management, climate impact and many more challenges.

Our Sustainable Waste Management team is looking for an experienced waste and resource management specialist with demonstrable expert knowledge of the waste and resource management sector and experience of developing, leading and delivering resource efficiency and sustainability initiatives across a diverse portfolio of clients., We are seeking someone who is ambitious, with a proven track record in winning new work and leading projects, who can assist with pushing forward the development of this core business area.
Experience of working with or for commercial entities, local authorities, contractors and / or consultancies
Expert knowledge, both theoretical and in the field, of resources and waste management and sustainability solutions
A strong understanding of waste modelling and the use of MS Excel. While not essential, coding experience (Python, R or otherwise), and familiarity with QGIS, would be beneficial
A good understanding of current and future challenges facing commercial and industrial entities as well as local authorities, including working knowledge of waste contracts and technologies
Experience in business development, with the ability to identify, develop, win and deliver opportunities from existing and new contacts
Degree qualified in environmental sciences / engineering or equivalent (ideally to postgraduate level)
Chartered membership of a professional body
Full driving licence

SLR are global leaders in environmental and advisory solutions helping our clients achieve their sustainability goals. We are a consultancy with over 4,000 employees working in 125 countries around the world, including over 1,500 staff across Europe. Our one team' culture is at the heart of our business; providing a collaborative and supportive environment for professional development.