Environmental Manager

NUVIA; Retford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Scheme

Pension Contribution & Life Assurance

Employee Share Scheme

Training & Further Education Support

Cycle to Work & Transport Benefits

Holiday entitlement increasing with 5/

Job summary

NUVIA is seeking an Environmental Manager to lead environmental strategy and regulatory alignment across major programmes. The role involves integrating environmental requirements into engineering design, running BAT/ENVID activities, and maintaining emissions inventories.

Based at one of two sites with hybrid working (3 days on site), you will guide risk mitigation, regulatory submissions, and stakeholder engagement while ensuring compliance with STEP design and Safety Case requirements.

Qualifications

• Coherent and regulator-ready Environment Case aligned with the STEP design and Safety Case.
• Environmental requirements embedded within engineering design and decision-making processes.
• Robust assessments, models, and inventories for noise, air quality, watercourses, waste, emissions.
• Effective management of environmental risks across programmes.
• Progressive validation of environmental data and commitments as design matures.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist input to design, assessment, regulatory submissions and programme delivery with IPTs.
• Lead development and maintenance of the Environment Case.
• Define and communicate environmental and sustainability strategy for plant design.
• Integrate design for environment through BAT assessments, ENVID workshops and modelling.
• Maintain plant-wide waste and emissions inventories (radiological and non-radiological).
• Assess environmental risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Resolve environmental interfaces and trade-offs across disciplines and delivery teams.
• Provide training on environmental legislation and requirements.

Skills

Environmental engineering

Regulatory compliance

BAT ENVID methodologies

Environmental modelling

Risk management

Stakeholder communication

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Training on legislation

Job description

Role: Environmental Manager
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday

Role: Environmental Manager
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday
Location: Candidates can be based at either of the below sites on a hybrid basis - 3 days per week site/office presence as a minimum.

• West Burton Power Station, Retford, Nottinghamshire, DN22 9BL
• Culham Campus, Abingdon OX14 3EB

We are actively recruiting on either a permanent or contract basis. If contract, in initial duration will be 12 months.

There has never been a more exciting time to join NUVIA UK. As a result of significant growth and major contract awards, including the STEP fusion programme and major frameworks supporting the UK's defence and nuclear infrastructure, we are expanding our capability and delivering some of the UK's most innovative and strategically important programmes. Operating across the nuclear, defence and energy sectors, our work supports critical national infrastructure, strengthens energy security and contributes to the UK's long-term resilience.

Required Outcomes

• A coherent and regulator-ready Environment Case aligned with the STEP design and Safety Case. Clear definition and implementation of environmental and sustainability strategies.
• Environmental requirements embedded within the engineering design, decision-making and delivery process
• Robust assessments, models, and inventories covering noise, air quality, watercourses, waste, emissions, and other relevant environmental impacts.
• Effective management of environmental risks and mitigation measures across programmes.
• Progressive validation of environmental data, impacts and commitments as the design matures.

Scope of Services

The service should provide specialist input to design, assessment, regulatory submissions, and programme delivery activities, operating closely with safety, engineering, and Integrated Project Teams (IPTs).

Key Service Requirements

• Lead development and maintenance of the Environment Case.
• Define and communicate environmental and sustainability strategy for plant design.
• Integrate design for environment through BAT assessments, ENVID workshops, and environmental modelling.
• Maintain plant-wide waste and emissions inventories (radiological and non-radiological).
• Assess environmental risks, develop mitigation strategies, and elevate issues appropriately.
• Assess environmental risks, define mitigation strategies and support their implementation.
• Resolve environmental interfaces and trade-offs across engineering disciplines and delivery teams.
• Provide training and capability development on environmental legislation and requirements.

Capability Expectations

• The service provider shall demonstrate extensive experience delivering environmental engineering activities within large, complex programmes.
• Expert knowledge of environmental legislation and standards.
• Proven application of BAT and ENVID methodologies.
• The capability to operate effectively within a multi-disciplinary, high-hazard engineering environment.
• Experience in emergent or first-of-a-kind design environments would be particularly valuable.

Employee Staff Benefits

• 8.5% Pension Contribution & Life Assurance
• Private Medical Scheme*
• Employee Share Scheme
• Salary Sacrifice Schemes: Electrical Vehicles,
• Technology and Cycle to Work
• 18 Weeks Full Maternity Pay* (+21w SMP)
• 25 days holiday (increasing to 28 days after 5 years' service, 31 days after 10 years' service)
• Option to buy, sell and carry over up to 5 days annual leave per year
• In partnership with trade unions
• Personal Development & Further Education Support
• Long Service & Recognition Awards
• Free Employee Assistance Programme
• After 1 year of service.