Regional Environmental and Sustainability Manager

Ses Ltd; Greater Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible working

Car allowance / company car

Travel to sites

Private medical

Pension with 6% employer contribution

26 days holiday + bank holidays

Learning and development opportunities

Family-friendly policies

Job summary

SES Engineering Services is recruiting a Regional Environmental and Sustainability Manager to shape and advance sustainability across our local operations in the UK. This role supports regional operations and strategic centre initiatives, delivering the ESIP and driving improvements across projects.

You will lead the regional sustainability program, coach teams, analyze performance data, and collaborate with the bid team to respond credibly to customer ambitions.

Qualifications

• Experience in environmental sustainability in the built environment, ideally within MEP.
• Knowledge of environmental legislation, carbon strategies, circularity, resource efficiency and nature positive approaches.
• Ability to analyse and interpret environmental data to inform decisions.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, able to engage stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience delivering training, facilitating workshops and driving behavioural change.
• A degree or equivalent experience in sustainability, environmental science, engineering or related field (IEMA membership desirable).

Responsibilities

• Lead and embed SES's environmental sustainability strategy (ESIP) into planning, delivery and operational decision making across the region.
• Act as a subject matter expert in the centre sustainability team, helping drive accelerators, market-aligned strategies and continuous improvement.
• Monitor and analyse project sustainability data, identifying local trends, risks, and regional opportunities to improve performance.
• Support the regional bid team with credible, high-quality sustainability responses aligned to customer ambitions and SES strategic goals.
• Provide functional support to the SHEQ team by helping to identify environmental risks and promoting safe by design principles across projects.
• Drive engagement with regional project teams, customers, and supply chain partners to promote sustainability best practice and innovation.
• Facilitate regional training, upskilling and mentoring to build local sustainability capability and knowledge within teams.
• Report on regional sustainability performance and escalate key issues to support organisational learning and corrective action.
• Locally manage or propose budgets that support the effective delivery of sustainability objectives.

Skills

Sustainability

Stakeholder engagement

Data analysis

Training delivery

MEP knowledge

Education

Degree in sustainability

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Regional Environmental and Sustainability Manager.

SES Engineering Services are recruiting for a Regional Environmental and Sustainability Manager to joinour regional business, playing a key role inshapingand advancing sustainability across our local operations and supporting our strategic centre functions.

This is a unique opportunity to influence and accelerate SES's transition towards net zero, strengthen our environmental sustainability performance, and drive innovation across some of the UK's most technically complex MEP projects.

If you are passionate about environmental sustainability in the built environment and want to make a measurable impact while developing your career within aforward thinking, supportive team,join us and help to create tomorrow together.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Our Regional Environmental and Sustainability Managers are critical to embeddingenvironmental sustainability across SES. This combined role supports both regional operations and strategic centre initiatives, ensuring successful delivery ofregionalSESsustainabilitytargets.

You will provide subject matterexpertise, coach and influence teams, drive performance improvement, and support the development andregionalimplementation of SES's Environmental Sustainability Implementation Plan (ESIP).

As our Regional Environmental and Sustainability Manager, you will:

• Lead and embed SES's environmental sustainability strategy (ESIP) into planning, delivery and operationaldecision makingacrosstheregion.
• Act as a subject matter expert in the centre sustainability team, helping drive sustainability accelerators,market alignedstrategies, and continuous improvement.
• Monitor and analyse projectsustainabilitydata,identifyinglocaltrends, risks, andregionalopportunities to improve performance.
• Supportthe regionalbid teamwith credible,high qualitysustainability responses aligned tocustomerambitions and SES strategic goals.
• Provide functional support to the SHEQ team by helping toidentifyenvironmental risks, contributing to compliance-related activities, and promotingsafebydesignprinciples across projects.
• Drive engagement withregionalproject teams,customers, and supply chain partners to promote sustainability best practice and innovation.
• Facilitateregionaltraining,upskillingand mentoring to buildlocalsustainability capabilityand knowledge within teams, including leading aregionalnetwork ofsustainabilitychampions.
• Report onregionalsustainabilityperformance and escalates key issues to support organisational learning and corrective action.
• Locallymanage or propose budgets that support the effective delivery of sustainabilityobjectives.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive salary & profit share scheme
• Flexible working
• Car Allowance / Company Car (subject to role/grade)
• Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)
• Extensive corporate benefits including Private Medical, Pension with 6% employer contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holiday + bank holidays, and much more…
• Excellent learning and development opportunities to support your professional growth
• Industryleadingfamily friendlypolicies including 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 12 weeks fully paid paternity leave

To find out more aboutlife at SES Engineering Services, please visit:
https://www.ses-ltd.co.uk/careers/working-at-ses/

ABOUT YOU

You will bring:

• Professional experience and strong understanding of environmental sustainability in the built environment, ideally within MEP.
• Knowledge of environmental legislation, carbon strategies, circularity, resourceefficiencyandnature positiveapproaches.
• Ability to analyse and interpret environmental data to inform decisions.
• Strong communicationand influencing skills, able to engage stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience delivering training,facilitatingworkshopsand driving behavioural change.
• A degree or equivalent experience in sustainability, environmental science,engineeringor a related field (IEMA membership desirable).

You willrole modelSES behaviours by caring about people and planet, being fair and inclusive, and always looking for a better way.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

SES is committed to the fair treatment of people with criminal records and ensures no candidate is treated less favourably due to an offending background. Some roles require preemployment checks including a Basic DBS.

As a responsible and inclusive employer, SES is proud to be a Disability Confident employer and an Investors in People Gold accredited organisation.

If you would like to discuss the role confidentially, please contact ourIn-houseRecruitment Team [e-mail].