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We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Our cultural heritage team at Arcadis is growing and we are looking for a role as an experienced Cultural Heritage Consultant with archaeological and historic buildings experience to join our team. As a Consultant with Arcadis you will be working as part of multi-disciplinary teams with a range of other environmental specialists and supported by our excellent EIA co-ordination team. Much of the work that our team produces is EIA based and we also work on several Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects that follow the DCO consenting route.

As part of our Environmental team, you’ll help improve quality of life. With your specialism in environmental management, or your technical or sustainability expertise, your work could involve protected species, pollution, surface water and materials management, air quality or noise. And in some of the world’s busiest and most beautiful locations.

We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Role accountabilities:

The responsibilities of the role will include:

• Production of desk-based assessments, heritage impact assessments, statements of significance and other documents
• Carrying our site walkovers and settings assessments
• Carrying our heritage assessments, management and viewing of heritage data in GIS
• Supporting on and providing inputs into EIA scoping reports and Environmental Statement chapters
• Supporting heritage colleagues with developing archaeological mitigation strategies
• Compliance with Arcadis SHEQ (Safety, health, environment and quality) policies and processes including creating/inputting into Health and Safety Plans and making proactive SHEQ observations
• Supporting on consultation with key heritage stakeholders
• Supporting senior colleagues in the provision of heritage advise to clients, project managers and colleagues
• Working with senior colleagues to engage and manage archaeological and historic building sub-contractors to carry out archaeological fieldwork and historic building recording.

Arcadis has a strong commitment to developing our people and for the successful candidate we’ll make sure you get the experience and personalised learning support you need to take your career as far as you want it to go.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Demonstrable experience of producing a range of heritage focused deliverables including Desk-based Assessments, Heritage Statements and Statements of Significance
• Knowledge of and experience of carrying out Settings Assessments
• Experience of working in heritage consultancy or a comparable role in the heritage sector
• Good knowledge of the Historic Environment
• Knowledge and experience of GIS
• Knowledge of UK Heritage legislation and planning policy
• Commercial awareness and experience of managing own workload within a wider project budger
• Practitioner Membership of the CIfA or in the process of up-grading
• Driving Licence or in the process of obtaining one
• Desired: CSCS card holder
• Desired: Experience of working on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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