Senior Environmental Consultant – Air Quality
Karpira
- Dubai
- Permanent
- Full-time
What if we showed you how we’re solving the world’s greatest challenges by transforming intangible ideas into intelligent solutions for a more connected, sustainable world?Our People & Places Solutions business – reinforces our drive to improve the lives of people everywhere and epitomises the “why” of what we do – the tremendous positive impact and value our solutions bring to our communities and society as a whole. From facilities delivering life-saving therapies and ensuring clean water to enabling the connection of people through all modes of transportation and providing access to technology – we’re integrating a multitude of these solution elements to build the smart environments of tomorrow.The Middle East is undergoing a significant transformation to support wellbeing, land regeneration and climate action while also driving infrastructure efficiency and economic diversification.Jacobs is actively partnering with our clients to deliver support this change through strategic advisory, city and regional scale land planning, environmental planning and assessment and digital delivery. As a key member of the Jacobs Environmental Services Market, your role will be to:
- Support technical inputs or lead technical delivery of Jacobs projects (e.g. specialist studies, EIAs, Management Plans, urban plans, strategic reporting).
- Serve as a technical specialist and lead for Air, Odour and Noise Modelling and Assessments.
- Collaborate with or manage local and global experts or suppliers to ensure Jacobs best provides best practice solutions to our clients.
- Prepare and deliver high quality reports and presentations to clients technical and senior leadership in line with Jacobs quality process.
- Understand and promote Jacobs solutions and technologies to internal and external stakeholders.
- Travel, when required within region to attend client or team workshops, presentations or conduct site reconnaissance.
- The role will be predominantly office based, but periodic field assignments may be required.
- Have a at a minimum an undergraduate degree (post graduate level preferred) in the field of Environmental Sciences, Environmental Management, Sustainability, or Urban Planning.
- Strong working knowledge of building, populating and running and otherwise applying internationally recognised modelling software packages for Air Environment Modelling (e.g. for Air Quality, Odour, Noise, Climate modelling).
- Have a keen focus on identifying and utilizing cutting edge technical solutions to help solve our client’s biggest challenges surrounding human health, livability and climate action.
- Have a minimum of 10 years of continuous and progressive experience in delivering and and/or advising in Air, Odour, Noise or Climate analysis and assessment for services related to environmental planning and assessment, strategic reporting, specialist studies, or digital solutions deployment.
- Have strong organization skills. Technical writing and communication skills in English are essential and Arabic is highly regarded.
- Have demonstratable commitment to continuous development and active engagement in professional networks (IEMA or equivalent chartered status is preferred), company communities of practice groups or similar.