Senior / Principal Air Quality Consultant

We are looking for an experienced Senior or Principal Consultant to join Stantec's UK Air Quality team, based in either our Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester or Reading offices. You will work closely with colleagues across our Environmental Services group, as well as our Engineering, Buildings, Infrastructure, Transportation, and Planning teams.

Our Air Quality team delivers a diverse range of assessments across the UK, supporting all stages of the development process from site promotion and planning applications through to discharge of conditions. We also undertake detailed technical studies to support Environmental Permit applications across the power, water, industrial, minerals and waste sectors.

In this role, you will lead and contribute to air quality impact assessments involving road traffic, combustion sources, and odour emissions. You will apply dispersion modelling and monitoring programmes to inform high-quality reports and Environmental Statement chapters. We also encourage you to develop and apply emerging approaches that consider both human and ecological receptors, supporting more holistic and future-focused assessments.

You will be an experienced Air Quality professional with:

• A relevant degree and Chartered membership of an appropriate professional institution.
• Strong experience undertaking and overseeing air quality impact assessments.
• Proficiency in dispersion modelling, using tools such as ADMS Roads, AERMOD, or ADMS5.
• Experience applying GIS in an air quality context, particularly for digitalising modelling inputs and outputs.
• Ideally, experience assessing highway schemes in line with Highways England guidance (DMRB, WebTAG).
• Advantageous experience evaluating emissions to air from power, minerals, industrial or waste sector projects.
• Strong understanding of Local Air Quality Management (LAQM) and the UK planning and regulatory system.

You will be comfortable working both independently and within multidisciplinary teams on land development and regeneration projects. Importantly, you will also bring experience managing, mentoring and supporting junior colleagues, helping to foster a collaborative and supportive team environment.