Jobs for Humanity

Jobs for Humanity; Penrith; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Car allowance

Job summary

Kier is seeking a Senior Environmental Specialist to join our environmental team. You will deliver a diverse range of projects across the UK in road, rail, water, and property sectors, with travel to sites and offices required and some remote working. A full driving licence is essential.

You will lead environmental assessments, manage permits, and promote decarbonisation and nature-based solutions while mentoring junior staff and collaborating with the broader Kier Design Environmental team.

Qualifications

• A degree in Ecology or equivalent experience.
• Practitioner member of ISEP (or equivalent) and working towards CEnv.
• Robust understanding of UK environmental legislation and policy, demonstrable experience undertaking environmental assessment for infrastructure or building projects.
• A UK protected species licence, strong working knowledge of UK Habitat survey, habitat condition assessments, Defra Biodiversity Metric, and Biodiversity Net Gain plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to client, stakeholder, and technical meetings, promoting environmental principles and innovation.
• Support Environmental Leads on major projects – A66 NTP and M6 Lune Gorge with Kier Design Environmental team.
• Work with construction teams on site to deliver EMP commitments and lead on environmental impact assessments.
• Ensure permits, licences and consents are obtained on time, minimize environmental impacts and maximize benefits.
• Promote decarbonisation, climate resilience and nature-based solutions across the business; author and review environmental documents; mentor junior staff.

Skills

Ecology knowledge

ISEP member

CEnv in progress

Education

Degree in Ecology or equivalent

Tools

Permitting knowledge

Job description

Company Description

Jobs for Humanity is collaborating with Kier to build an inclusive and just employment ecosystem. We support individuals coming from all walks of life. Company Name: Kier

Job Description

Due to the rapid and exciting growth of our internal environmental consultancy services, we're looking for a Senior Environmental Specialist to join our team. In this role, you'll play a pivotal part in delivering a diverse range of projects across the UK, spanning the road, rail, water, and property sectors. A full driving licence is essential for this role. Kier Design are a top-25 engineering consultancy, delivering a wide range of services across all sectors of the built environment, providing construction-focused, innovative and sustainable solutions. We have preferential access to Kier's £11bn+ project pipeline, including mega projects like High Speed 2 and Hinkley Point C, frameworks with national and local government and other public bodies, and a range of other interesting projects in every sector of the built environment. We believe in building teams around our people, rather than squeezing people into our teams, we want to help you carve out a role in which you'll grow and thrive for many years to come. Offering market-leading development opportunities, supporting our graduates through the early stages of their careers, enabling our people to become professionally qualified, providing management training and qualifications, and supporting ongoing technical development throughout our people's careers. Actively promoting, so you can keep pushing and stretching yourself.

Location : Penrith, Cumbria– travel to sites and offices required, with remote working available

Hours : 37.5 hours per week – Some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

Salary : £40,000 – £50,000 per year + £5.9k annual car allowance + private healthcare + benefits

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

What will you be responsible for?

As Senior Environmental Specialist , you'll be supporting on major highways projects in the north, providing services on a range of exciting projects, predominantly A66 NTP and M6 Lune Gorge as well as a wider portfolio of projects, you will be directly supporting the Environmental Leads on the Major Projects and work with the wider Kier Design Environmental team. Your day to day will include: Leading and contributing to client, stakeholder, and technical meetings, actively promoting environmental principles, best practice, and innovation, s upporting the Environmental Leads on key Major Projects – A66 NTP and M6 Lune Gorge Working with the Construction team on site to deliver the commitments in the EMP, leading on environmental impact assessments for projects , identifying key environmental risks, proposing mitigation strategies and developing management plans Ensuring all relevant environmental permits, licences and consents are obtained in a timely manner, working closely with designers minimising environmental impacts and maximising environmental benefits Promoting decarbonisation, climate resilience, nature-based solutions and innovation across the business, authoring and reviewing technical environmental documents Supporting and mentoring junior members of the team, representing the team in client, stakeholder and technical meetings, continuous improvement of environmental processes, procedures and related forms

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Environmental Specialist is great for you if:

• A degree in Ecology or equivalent experience
• Practitioner member of ISEP (or equivalent) and working towards CEnv
• Robust understanding of UK environmental legislation and policy, demonstrable experience undertaking environmental assessment for infrastructure or building projects
• A UK protected species licence, s trong working knowledge and experience of UK Habitat survey, habitat condition assessments, Defra Biodiversity Metric, and Biodiversity Net Gain plans

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.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.