Environmental Services Director – Environmental Services (London, UK)

Company: Burns & McDonnell
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Location: London
Job Description:

Description

Chart your own course and change the world — with the support of people whose interests are aligned with yours. At Burns & McDonnell, opportunity is waiting. We’re looking for people with big ideas and an entrepreneurial mindset. It’s those kinds of people who’ve helped us grow from a small consulting business back in 1898 to a global leader in engineering, architecture and construction solutions. Today, we’re a thriving company with more than 10,000 professionals working in 75 offices worldwide and recognised as a leader in Environmental Services.

This position will support the management and development of the Environmental Services (ENS) Global Practice across the UK (and other geograhpical/market segments as assigned), leading to the sustainable growth in a dynamic and profitable manner based on Burns & McDonnell’s (BMcD) core values of client satisfaction, commitment, dedication, integrity, safety, and overall outstanding service.

  • Leads and manages and other agreed market/geographcial segments across the UK, wotking with the Director of Envrionmental Services, UK & Europe and other Directors and Officers as appropreate to:

  • Identify key target clients for BMcD to organise a focused sales approach strategy.

  • Define the local organization and work to build and recruit a multidisciplinary environmental and sustainability team.

  • Identify, develop, and manage the implementation of business strategies for ENS in the UK, including operational strategies and procedures, marketing strategies, pricing strategies, and sales and customer retention strategies.

  • Deliver profit and achieve agreed targets and standards for financial performance.

  • Plan, coordinate, communicate, and facilitate activities of several disciplines on projects of all sizes from conception through completion.

  • Develop a long-term strategic plan for growth and sustainability of ENS in the UK, in alignment with the UK ENS Strategy

  • Assist in maintaining current client support and staff progression.

  • Identify project opportunities early and facilitate go/no-go decisions in cooperation with others.

  • Facilitate strategy development to pre-sell projects before Tender release. Undertake proposal development and contract negotiations.

  • Responsible for coordinating project planning including scoping, budgeting, maintaining schedules, communicating and managing deadlines and establishing and performing to critical project objectives.

  • Ensures quality and safety standards by adhering to BMcD Quality Control program and BMcD Safety program.

  • Develop relationships with key partners and subconsultants.

  • Measures of Performance: (These performance measures will be quantified in cooperation with the Global Practice Leadership and UK Leadership).

  • Attainment of billable time targets for ENS staff.

  • Ability to maximise profitability on projects.Ability to attract, hire, develop, and retain the best people into BMcD.

  • Ability to execute projects meeting or exceeding client expectations for quality, schedule, and budget.

  • Ability to execute projects in a manner to meet and exceed internal expectations for quality, schedule, labor/cost budgets, project profitability, safety, and client satisfaction.

  • Growth of UK ENS Practice based on sales, revenue, profitability and staff size.

  • Leads and manages the growth of a ENS UK team to include the following environmental and sustainability disciplines (as required. Therefore some experience/knowledge in the following disciplines would be advantageous:

  • Field projects such as groundwater sampling, drilling, etc., including site attendance for such works

  • Soil and groundwater management, land contamination and remediation works, e.g., excavation, in-situ treatment, etc.

  • Health & safety, sustainability and environmental management in all stages of works (design, planning, construction & complaince)

  • UK Environmental permitting applications, management and concents (DCO & T&CPA).

  • Provides leadership for site roles inclduing environmental clark of works, envrionmental site inspections, envrionmental audits and reporting thereof.

  • Responsible for the recruitment, development, training, and retention of staff.

  • Responsible for conducting performance evaluations for department staff.

  • Provide leadership, guidance, and instruction to the department.

  • Responsible for interpreting the organization’s policies, purposes, and goals to staff.

  • Responsible for overall QA/QC process adherence.

  • Enforce compliance with company and site safety policies.

  • Performs other duties as assigned

  • Complies with all policies and standards

Qualifications

  • Bachelor Degree In geology, environmental managemen/ science, engineering, construction management or related field from accredited program. and 10 years Minimum 10 years related professional experience and possess strong leadership skills that include current and previous management experience. Required

  • Experience must include successful management of projects, proposal development, contract negotiations, project planning, design team coordination & communication, budgeting, schedule management, and client coordination.

  • Previous consulting experience preferred.

  • Professional registration/chartership preferred

This job posting will remain open a minimum of 72 hours and on an ongoing basis until filled.

Job Environmental

Primary Location GB-London, UK-London

Schedule: Full-time

Travel: Yes, 20 % of the Time

Req ID: 262097

Job Hire Type Experienced #LI-JA #UKO N/A

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Posted: May 29th, 2026