The Vacancy
Director of Environmental Consultancy
Competitive Salary + Excellent Benefits
Remote Working – This role offers remote or hybrid working, with travel to UK sites and offices as required
Full-time Permanent
The Director of Environmental Consultancy will provide strategic leadership and full P&L responsibility for the Environmental Consultancy and Solutions by Nature businesses. You will drive business strategy, commercial performance, and sustainable growth, while ensuring the safe, high-quality delivery of environmental and nature-based solutions services.
Leading multidisciplinary teams across the water and wider critical infrastructure sectors, you will play a key role in advancing nature-based solutions, environmental net gain, and integrated environmental services. As a relationship-focused leader, you will shape client engagement, drive growth opportunities, and work closely with sector leaders and client teams to align environmental capability with wider Binnies and RSK Group objectives.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
We offer more than a job - we offer a career with purpose, built on a supportive culture that values collaboration, inclusion and personal growth. In addition, we offer excellent benefits including:
- Car Allowance
- Enhanced pension contributions
- Private Health Insurance & Income Protection
- Life Assurance
- Annual Leave Purchase Scheme
- Clear career paths and development support
- Annual pay reviews and bonus opportunities
- High street discounts & gym membership offers
And many more…
Key Responsibilities
Leadership, Culture & Capability
- Provide visible and inclusive leadership across Environmental Consultancy and Solutions by Nature, championing health, safety, wellbeing, quality, and environmental compliance.
- Develop and mentor senior team leaders, technical specialists, and emerging talent, building capability, succession, and a high-performing culture aligned with Binnies values
Business & Financial Leadership
- Take full P&L responsibility, driving commercial performance, sustainable growth, forecasting accuracy, and delivery against budgets and business objectives
- Lead business planning, financial reviews, and resource strategy to ensure effective utilisation, capability development, and operational efficiency
Strategy, Growth & Client Leadership
- Define and deliver environmental consultancy and nature-based solutions strategies aligned with market drivers across the water and wider critical infrastructure sectors.
- Lead client engagement and market insight activities to shape growth opportunities, maintain senior relationships, and support major bids, frameworks, and new service propositions
Delivery & Operational Excellence
- Ensure the safe, high-quality and commercially robust delivery of environmental and nature-based solutions projects across a diverse portfolio
- Oversee governance, risk management, resource planning, and continuous improvement, while working collaboratively across Binnies and the wider RSK Group to deliver integrated solutions
Skills & Experience
- A collaborative and inclusive leader who embodies the Binnies ENGAGED values and can bring together multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders
- Strategic and commercially minded, with a strong delivery focus and a track record of achieving and exceeding targets
- Experienced in delivering multi-disciplinary environmental services and leading large projects and programmes of work
- A credible and confident communicator, able to build strong relationships with clients, partners, suppliers, and internal teams
- Proactive, resilient, and solutions-focused, with strong decision-making, problem-solving, and risk management capabilities in complex or ambiguous environments
- Committed to quality, safety, and ethical delivery
- Degree qualified in a relevant environmental discipline (or equivalent experience/training) and Chartered with a relevant professional institution
About Us
We develop intelligent solutions using our award-winning integrated planning and design approach to deliver functional infrastructure and lasting environmental and social legacies. This is backed by a culture that has stayed true since our foundation over 100 years ago. We create new possibilities for humanity through our innovative approach to delivery.
Together with our clients, we are always striving to find a smarter way to deliver projects. From providing low carbon, sustainable and resilient water solutions, flood alleviation and environment services, to connecting people with insights and data. Our business exists to improve the quality of life for our local communities today and for generations to come.
Binnies is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business providing dynamic, multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then.
At RSK, we operate as a group of businesses that work together seamlessly, aiming for growth through diversification. Our strategy helps us build a strong and resilient business, capable of weathering external challenges, while also providing greater value to our clients and more opportunities for our employees.
Since the beginning, our philosophy has remained the same: employ, develop and reward talented individuals. People are crucial to our company, and we recognise that our success hinges on our colleagues' growth. We're committed to preserving RSK's people-first culture, promoting innovation, and fostering a supportive and caring environment for collaboration. At RSK, we want you to be part of our successes and help you reach your career aspirations. We take pride in offering employees fulfilling and challenging careers by promoting ongoing growth and empowering individuals to excel.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We firmly believe that embracing and celebrating the diversity in our workforce makes us a stronger and more innovative company.
If you're passionate about making a difference, join us as we work together to build a brighter, more equitable, and sustainable future for all. Do you have what it takes?
Benefits
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Private Health Insurance
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Income Protection
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High Street Vouchers
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Life Assurance
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Annual Leave Purchase
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Cycle to Work Scheme
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Discounted Gym Membership
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Mental Health Support
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Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
Sectors
Environment
We create sustainable critical infrastructure across the whole asset life cycle to meet the net zero challenge. We integrate sustainability into everything we do, utilising digital innovation to create value. We de-risk projects through collaborative engagement and holistic thinking which builds inclusive wealth for our clients, stakeholders and communities.
Water
We are engaged in every aspect of the water industry, helping clients efficiently and effectively collect, store, move and treat water and wastewater; plan and manage watersheds; harness the energy embedded in the treatment and movement of water and enhance sustainability. We incorporate leading-edge digital transformation to create more resilient and reliable solutions using data analytics to provide powerful insights.