Environment Manager (SCS)

HS2; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 49,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits fund 15%

Flexible working

Development opportunities

Job summary

HS2 Ltd is seeking an Environment Manager SCS to provide professional and technical support ensuring compliance with environmental minimum requirements across design and construction. You will guide environmental design solutions and ensure ESG considerations are integrated into project design.

The role involves coordinating assurance activities, authorising approvals, and reporting environmental matters, with a focus on delivering compliant, sustainable outcomes across large-scale projects.

Qualifications

• Understanding of UK environmental law and CDM regulations.
• Experience managing standards, engineering and environmental activity on large complex major projects.
• Commercial awareness including cost delivery, schedule targets and integrated solutions.
• Membership of an appropriate professional institution or the equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Support technical assurance through production, checking and submission of assurance evidence.
• Coordinate and undertake the environment element of risk-based technical assurance.
• Authorize Mandatory Approvals ensuring compliance with EMRs and CoCP.
• Communicate HS2 Environment & Sustainability requirements to IPT contractors.
• Provide guidance for environmental design solutions and ensure ESG considerations in design.
• Support internal and external reporting of environmental matters.
• Liaise with stakeholders at local, regional and national levels on environmental issues.
• Develop mitigation strategies with other technical specialists.

Skills

Complex problem solving

Decision Making

Technical Leadership

Communication

Data management

Education

Professional institute membership

Job description

Salary London: starting from £44,380 depending on skills and experience

In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top of base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As an Environment Manager SCS at HS2 you will be responsible for providing professional and technical support in the assurance of achieving compliance with environmental minimum requirements, design and construction is in accordance with organisational and sponsor requirements and policies, environmental commitments, environmental law and regulations. This role is also responsible for providing guidance on environmental design solutions and ensuring environmental issues and constraints are key considerations in project design.

About the role:

• To be responsible for supporting technical assurance through production, checking and submission of assurance evidence for technical stage gates, assuring the design and construction of the assets comply with the technical and sponsor requirements, environmental commitments, environmental law and regulations;
• To be responsible for supporting the Senior Environment Manager in organising, coordinating and undertaking the environment element of the HS2 risk based technical assurance of the works performed and assured by the Integrated Project Teams (IPT );
• To be accountable for Authorising Mandatory Approvals: by assuring that contractor designs and construction works are undertaken in accordance with the Environmental Minimum Requirements (EMRs), with particular emphasis on the General Principles and the CoCP. (note - client assures consistency of application);
• To be accountable for managing and communicating HS2 Environment & Sustainability requirements to the Integrated Project Teams’ contractor;
• To be responsible for providing guidance for environmental design solutions for the asset and ensure that environmental issues and constraints are key considerations in project design;
• To be accountable for supporting the Senior Environment Manager with internal and external reporting of environmental matters;
• To be responsible for liaising with technical stakeholders via various forums at local, regional and national levels and the local community on sensitive issues;
• To be accountable for working alongside other technical specialists to develop appropriate and cost balanced mitigation strategies and solutions.
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives policies and procedures in EDI.
• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

About You:

Skills

• Complex problem solving - ability to identify complex problems. Review, analyse and interpret a wide range of data and evaluate options and implement solutions to be consistent with other working. Also ability can be measured as part of the assessment process.
• Decision Making - ability to gather and synthesise information, identify options and apply judgement based on logic and reason and make use of a variety of analytical approaches to provide relevant information to suppliers, stakeholders and decision makers using key facts and data.
• Technical Leadership - Specialist technical support and leadership on all discipline-specific scientific, technical and environmental principles but, knowing when to seek further guidance from Subject Matter Expert or others.
• Technical Leadership - Specialist technical support and leadership on discipline-specific analysis, problem solving and design techniques but, knowing when to seek further guidance from Subject Matter Expert or others.
• Communication - ability to communicate many discipline-specific technical ideas to colleagues, based on a mix of training and examples of application.
• Data management - applies principles and methods that ensure effective information management, modelling and data security, basic understanding of data creation and visualisation, working under supervision of line manager or in liaison with relevant Subject Matter Expert

Knowledge

• Applicable UK environmental law and other relevant construction (including CDM ) regulations.
• Understanding of the Regulatory/Legislative Framework relevant to HS2
• Commercial awareness including understanding of cost delivery, schedule targets and the need to deliver an integrated solution that meets all functional requirements.
• Membership of an appropriate professional institution or the equivalent experience.

Experience:

• Experience in managing standards, engineering and environmental activity on large complex major projects/programmes
• Experience of managing competing project, engineering and environmental demands, with cost and schedule implications

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX2btaDOBK8

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.