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AtkinsRéalis Environment Practice

Our Environment Practice is a hub of environmental expertise that operates at the center of many of our significant infrastructure projects in the UK.

From key offices across the UK including Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Peterborough and Epsom, we number over 500 passionate experts - from environmentalists and sustainability experts to ecologists, scientists, planners, economists, project managers, and engineers. Join us, and you’ll collaborate on high-profile initiatives like Sizewell C, Havant Thicket Reservoir and HS2 and build relationships with clients including large local authorities and the Environment Agency - helping protect the habitats and resources that sustain life.

Jobs in sustainability: global rewards, leading benefits

AtkinsRéalis is a large global company, but our close-knit teams ensure everyone feels welcomed and valued. You’re never just a number here! When you join us, you'll gain all the advantages of a leading consultancy - opportunities to work alongside top experts, progress to leadership, and contribute to cutting-edge initiatives. You'll also benefit from industry-leading parental leave, flexible working, a competitive pension, and even the option to work abroad for up to 20 days a year. Above all, you’ll be part of a workplace where everyone is ready to support you and your wellbeing.

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Our teams

Our Practices

Through the successful delivery of planning and environmental consents we help our clients make the right decisions in a complex and fast-paced world. Our expertise in policy, regulation and delivery allows us to influence regulators and decision makers, ensuring that we deliver sustainable and positive client outcomes across markets both in the UK and overseas. Our services include planning; development consent orders; economics; environmental impact assessment; stakeholder engagement; environmental management; environmental permitting; heritage; carbon and sustainability; and waste and resource management.

Operating at the interface between people and the water environment, we work with our clients in the UK and around the world in providing innovative design solutions, research and advisory services for a sustainable future. Our key services include water resources and water quality planning; flood risk management and hydraulic flood modelling, hydrogeology and hydrology; integrated catchment management; aquatic ecology, hydromorphology; river restoration; climate futures and resilience; environmental engineering; coastal and marine environmental management; environmental and economic planning & appraisal; regulation and assurance; strategic asset management; data analytics. We are at the forefront of new developments for the Water & Environment sector and have created new tools and approaches that are revolutionizing how we plan for resilient and sustainable water management for the future.​

We safeguard the environment, human health, water resources, heritage and historic assets and create value from waste and natural resources to meet society's needs now and in the future.

In developing major infrastructure and housing schemes we investigate, assess and remediate land. Using our blend of digital science and engineering expertise, including geological, hydrogeological, soil health, contaminated land and broad environmental skills, we maintain an award-winning reputation for adaptive, applied and integrated mitigation. We turn industrial legacy land constraints into opportunity, influencing design, minimising engineering requirements while embedding innovation and sustainability at the earliest project stages.

Our heritage team provide expert advice on complex and high profile national and international engineering, infrastructure and architectural design projects. We support clients with heritage planning advice, archaeological mitigation and management strategies, the historic built environment, conservation management planning, heritage placemaking, masterplans, and world heritage sites.

Our Circular Economy and waste specialists advise clients on applying Circular Economy principles to prevent and reduce waste from the outset of a scheme, and undertake waste strategy development and implementation, waste audits, Site Waste Management Plans and waste infrastructure design support to ensure high reuse and recycling levels and diversion of waste from disposal.

A team of highly trained economists and international experts, we help our clients to make good decisions and create a better future. Our main areas of specialism are sustainable urban development, business case preparation, economic and financial appraisal, investment advisory, economic development and regeneration, socio-economic appraisal, international water, energy policy & planning and utility regulation.​

Our award-winning team across the UK work on some of the most exciting projects, we are at the forefront of innovation and technology in ecology. ​We support each other, and our colleagues around the world to deliver for our clients, sharing our knowledge and discoveries to better the industry and raise standards.​The ecology team work across all markets, in all corners of the UK and NI. Our services include survey and mitigation, reporting, Habitat Regulations Assessment, habitat enhancement and creation, not to mention leading the way in biodiversity net gain and natural capital.

Our clients turn to us when innovative solutions are required to help solve complex issues, and when others fail to deliver “right first time”. Our services are regularly on the critical path for our clients’ programmes, and we pride ourselves on delivering to challenging timescales while maintaining our reputation for rigorous technical and analytical services. We work on single topic jobs or multidisciplinary projects, delivering specialist services at every stage of the design process, from concept to completion. We work on everything from planning applications for small scale developments through to action plans for areas/authorities and on to nationally significant infrastructure projects. Our work encompasses individual one-off’s to multi-year programmes of work across regions in the UK and internationally.​

Our projects

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Havant Thicket Reservoir

Our Water, Environment, and Project Delivery teams—along with Design & Advanced Technology and Project and Programme Services—delivered the career-defining Havant Thicket Reservoir project for Portsmouth Water. The reservoir addresses critical regional water resilience needs, enabling a bulk supply of drinking water to Southern Water while protecting valuable chalk stream habitats in the River Test and River Itchen.

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Our people

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Meet Avigayil

Hello, I'm Avigayil. I've been a town planner for five years and have worked with AtkinsRéalis for two years.

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Meet Ale
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Meet Ale

Hi, I'm Ale from the AtkinsRéalis Environmental team in the UK. I'm a Senior Environmental Consultant in the Sustainable Land and Resource Management practice at AtkinsRéalis.

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Meet Molly

Hello, I'm Molly, an Assistant Environmental Scientist here at AtkinsRéalis in the UK. My working life is varied, including site work, office work, and collaborative workshops.

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Meet Ale

Hi, I'm Ale from the AtkinsRéalis Environmental team in the UK. I'm a Senior Environmental Consultant in the Sustainable Land and Resource Management practice at AtkinsRéalis.

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Difference makes a difference

We're devoted to growing the diversity of our organization, promoting an inclusive culture, and giving everyone an equal voice because it's the right thing to do.

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Flexible working

When you join us, you'll enjoy flexible working with support for achieving the healthy work-life balance that right for you. We have a range of flexible working options which also include being able to work overseas for up to 20 days per year (subject to certain conditions being met).

Since 2013, we've had a year-on-year increase in flexible workers across all genders and grades, and we're ready to support you with your outside-of-work commitments.

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If you've already taken a look at our live vacancies below, but can't find a suitable role for you right now, you can join our Talent Community. It's a perfect way to stay in touch with us, learn more about our culture and projects, and receive business-specific updates from the areas that most interest you.

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