Consultant Environmental Due Diligence

Job Description

Are you an experienced environmental due diligence consultant, skilled in uncovering environmental risks and turning technical findings into clear, actionable advice for decision-makers? Do you enjoy working across EHS and ESG topics to help shape sustainable outcomes for transactions and post-acquisition strategies? Are you a detail-focused communicator who thrives on fast-paced due diligence work, site visits, and collaborative problem-solving? 

If this sounds like you, then this role could be the perfect opportunity. Join our CST Due Diligence UK & Ireland team as our new Experienced Senior Consultant Environmental Due Diligence and work with us to close the gap to a sustainable future. 

Your new role

As an Experienced Senior Consultant Environmental Due Diligence, you will be part of our busy UK transactions team supporting fast-paced UK and global M&A transactions. You will assist with the identification of key EHS and ESG risks and opportunities and provide high-quality, targeted advice to clients on both buy-side and sell-side due diligence projects 

Our team advises on transactions across a wide range of sectors, typically including industrial, commercial and infrastructure assets and businesses, often for finance sector clients. We work closely with in-house specialists across several EHS and ESG disciplines to provide targeted due diligence advice. Our clients use this advice to support negotiations during the bidding process and o to make informed impactful decisions on sustainability priorities post-acquisition.  

You will play a key role in the team, principally delivering due diligence assessments, while also supporting project management and the development of client proposals.  

Your key responsibilities will be: 

• Preparation of proposals, including pricing/budgets and timescales. Participation in client discussions and support with developing new client relationships. 
• Project Management and coordination of medium to large projects including multi-site projects over several geographies in support of buy-side and sell-side due diligence. 
• Delivery of Phase I Environmental Site Assessments and Limited Environmental Compliance Review(LECR) assessments for a range of sites, including more complex manufacturing facilities; including participation in management calls, interpreting available information and preparing focussed client reports.  
• Delivery of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) assessments of companies in support of buy-side and sell-side due diligence. This will include desk-based research (review of data rooms and publicly available information), participation in management calls, interpreting available information and preparing client focussed reports.