Environmental Manager

Overview

As Environmental Manager, you will provide leadership on environmental and sustainability best practice across major construction activities. You will work with site teams to ensure compliance with plans and legislation, lead investigations into incidents, and drive improvements through campaigns and procedures. You will manage consents, licenses and permits while supporting project setup and reporting. This role offers a chance to shape sustainability outcomes and emissions reduction on large-scale infrastructure projects.

Pay / Benefits

• 27 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with option to purchase additional leave
• Holiday entitlement increases with length of service
• Contributory pension scheme and life assurance
• Health screening and enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced maternity and paternity benefits
• Professional development and continued investment in training

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership on environmental and sustainability practice with the SHESQ function
• Ensure staff understand statutory environmental duties and responsibilities
• Collaborate with site management to ensure compliance with environmental plans and legislation
• Lead environmental incident investigations and implement preventive actions
• Analyse environmental data to identify risks and improvement opportunities
• Develop and implement environmental campaigns, procedures and documentation
• Manage environmental consents, licenses, permits and exemptions and support project setup
• Prepare reports, pre-qualification submissions, tenders and awards entries

Key requirements

• Chartered membership of IEMA or equivalent professional environmental qualification
• Understanding of practical environmental risk mitigation on significant construction projects
• Knowledge of waste management, water management, pollution prevention, nuisance, contaminated land and ecological mitigation
• Experience with environmental consents, licensing, Development Consent Orders and Biodiversity Net Gain
• Strong grasp of Net Zero principles and sustainability strategies
• Experience in carbon measurement and driving emissions reductions
• Experience in environmental incident management, investigation and corrective action planning
• Excellent communication, report-writing, analytical and stakeholder management skills

• stakeholder management
• communication
• analytical thinking
• environmental risk mitigation
• environmental consents and licensing
• Biodiversity Net Gain

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