Environmental Advisor

TN United Kingdom; England; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking an Environmental Advisor to join their Construction team in Southern England. This pivotal role focuses on promoting sustainability and ensuring environmental compliance across various projects. You will support pre-construction teams, conduct audits, and drive the sustainability agenda by integrating best practices into tenders. The ideal candidate will have a passion for sustainability, relevant experience, and a degree in an environmental discipline. Join a forward-thinking company that values diversity and offers a range of benefits tailored to your needs, while making a significant impact in the construction industry.

Benefits

Flexible Working Hours

Tailored Benefits Package

Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in an Environmental role with a focus on sustainability.
• Knowledge of construction sustainability schemes like BREEAM and LEED.

Responsibilities

• Support environmental compliance and sustainability innovations in projects.
• Conduct environmental inspections and audits using the Novade platform.

Skills

Sustainability Knowledge

Environmental Compliance

ISO 14001 Knowledge

Environmental Auditing

KPI Measurement

Education

Degree in Environmental Science

Tools

Kier's Novade Platform

Environmental Reporting System RIO

Job description

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We're looking for an Environmental Advisor to join our Construction team based in Southern England Region

Location: Flexible across Southern Southeast Region (Kent & Sussex)

Contract: Permanent – Full Time (Can offer Part Time Working also)

Responsibilities

We are looking to recruit an Environmental Advisor to support a wide range of projects in our Southern region (Kent and Sussex) in delivering Kier's Sustainability Framework and maintaining environmental compliance. The role will support live projects as well as our pre-construction team with bids and identify applied best practice.

Duties and responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Support with tenders to ensure relevant environmental mitigation is incorporated into projects as well as sustainability innovations
• Assist sites in pre-construction to ensure all required documentation is in place to ensure legal and system compliance.
• Conduct environmental inspections and support environmental audits using Kier's Novade platform.
• Review environmental incidents and develop learning outcomes
• Collate and prepare wider sustainability information to report progress against agreed objectives and targets.
• Support with our Environmental reporting system RIO with ensuring the data is accurate.
• Feedback any case study / best practice to the wider team including bid teams to support tender responses.
• Chair meetings within the business made up of operational staff to drive the sustainability agenda.
• Supporting with the delivery of our Building for a Sustainable World Sustainability Strategy to ensure data is captured, analysed and communicated

Who are we looking for?

• Passion for sustainability and a drive to reduce carbon emissions and improve resource efficiency
• Preferably a degree in an environmental or scientific discipline.
• Have experience working in an Environmental or similar role.
• Knowledge of construction sustainability schemes such as BREEAM / LEED / WELL
• Experience setting, measuring, monitoring and communicating environmental KPIs.
• Experience developing documents, procedures and forms that are consistent with the requirements of ISO 14001.
• Internal ISO 14001 auditor experience would be advantageous.
• A thorough understanding of environmental concepts, such as the source, pathway, receptor model, waste hierarchy and the identification of significant aspects and impacts.
• Working knowledge of environmental management systems.
• UK Driving licence
• Hold Security Clearance (BPSS and SC) or able to apply for it
• Willingness to travel to sites regularly

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here .

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here .

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