Regional Environmental and Sustainability Manager

SES Engineering Services; Stretford; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & profit share

Flexible working

Car Allowance / Company Car (subject %

Travel covered to sites

Private Medical

Pension with 6% employer contribution

Health and Wellness programme

26 days holiday + bank holidays

Learning and development opportunities

Family friendly policies including 26w

Job summary

SES Engineering Services seeks a Regional Environmental and Sustainability Manager to lead the delivery of environmental sustainability strategies across the regional operation and strategic centres. You will drive net-zero initiatives, coach teams and influence business decisions to improve performance.

You will embed ESIP, monitor data, support bids, and mentor regional champions while collaborating with regional teams and suppliers to deliver measurable sustainability improvements.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of environmental sustainability in built environments, ideally within MEP
• Knowledge of carbon strategies, circularity and nature-positive approaches
• Ability to analyse environmental data to inform decisions
• Excellent communication and influencing skills to engage stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Lead and embed SES's ESIP into regional planning, delivery and operations
• Act as subject matter expert in centre sustainability team and drive accelerators
• Monitor and analyse project sustainability data, identify risks and opportunities
• Support regional bid team with high-quality sustainability responses
• Provide support to SHEQ on environmental risks and compliance
• Drive regional engagement with project teams, customers and supply chain
• Facilitate regional training and mentoring to build sustainability capability
• Report on regional sustainability performance and budgets for objectives

Skills

Sustainability

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Training delivery

Engagement

Education

Degree in sustainability or related field

IEMA membership desirable

Tools

MS Office

Environmental data tools

Job description

Regional Environmental and Sustainability Manager.

SES Engineering Services are recruiting for a Regional Environmental and Sustainability Manager to join our regional business, playing a key role in shaping and 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 a forward thinking, supportive team, join us and help to create tomorrow together.

About The Role

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

You will provide subject matter expertise, coach and influence teams, drive performance improvement, and support the development and regional implementation 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 operational decision making across the region.
• Act as a subject matter expert in the centre sustainability team, helping drive sustainability 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, contributing to compliance-related activities, and promoting safebydesign 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, including leading a regional network of sustainability champions.
• Report on regional sustainability performance and escal...
• Locally manage or propose budgets that support the effective delivery of sustainability objectives.

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
• Industryleading family friendly policies including 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 12 weeks fully paid paternity leave

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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, 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 a related field (IEMA membership desirable).

You will role model SES 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 our In-house Recruitment Team at