Senior Environment Specialist

National Highways; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure company in Birmingham seeks a Senior Environmental Specialist to manage and enhance soft estate assets. You will coordinate projects and collaborate with engineering teams to ensure environmental compliance. The ideal candidate has a relevant degree, strong project management skills, and experience in environmental asset decision making. This position supports the broader mission of improving England's major roads landscape and biodiversity, with a commitment to diversity in the workplace.

Qualifications

• Experience in project management and ability to manage multiple projects.
• Proven experience in environmental asset management decision making.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate environmental schemes for soft estate assets.
• Evaluate environmental asset needs to develop enhancement schemes.
• Provide technical advice for soft estate and environmental designs.
• Collaborate with engineering on environmental strategies.
• Manage internal programme activities related to asset management.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Environmental asset management

Communication skills

Education

Degree in a relevant environmental discipline

Job description

About the job

At National Highways, we are proud custodians of diverse habitats within our soft estates. These linear habitats integrate the Strategic Road Network (SRN) into the landscape and provide vital corridors for protected species. We are passionate about managing these assets responsibly, and we are looking for a Senior Environmental Specialist to join our Environment Team in the Midlands.

In this role, you will have specific responsibility for managing a portfolio of works for the Midlands SRN, supporting delivery of asset needs and contributing to improving the condition of the soft estate asset to benefit landscape, biodiversity and interoperability across all assets.

Please note that you will be required to drive as part of your role, and you will need to have no more than 3 points to be considered for this position and during employment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate environmental schemes for renewal and improvement of soft estate assets


• Lead and coordinate the identification and evaluation of environmental asset needs to develop renewal and enhancement schemes, including compiling evidence and options for value management


• Provide technical advice and input into early design solutions for soft estate and environmental schemes


• Collaborate with engineering colleagues to ensure forward programme plans reflect soft estate priorities, environmental legislation, and business strategies, including climate change resilience


• Manage the internal programme of scheme and needs related activities, including asset data management, programming and development, associated administration and liaising with internal teams and contractors

About you.

• Degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant environmental discipline and suitable professional body membership (e.g. CIEEM).


• Experience of project management and the ability to work to set deadlines balancing multiple projects.


• Proven experience of environmental asset management decision making (e.g. investment, lifecycle costs, value optimisation, service optimisation) and Value Management processes.


• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.

We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.