Senior Environment & Sustainability Advisor

Kier Group plc; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Kier Group as a Senior Environment & Sustainability Advisor within the Transportation Team. You will support environmental compliance and sustainability initiatives on significant contracts across London while enjoying generous benefits, including a competitive salary and a variety of discounts.

Benefits

Annual holiday entitlement

Enhanced sick pay

24/7 virtual GP service

Deals and discounts with brands

Qualifications

• Experience in environmental management, preferable in construction.
• Proficient in maintaining and improving EMS certified to ISO 14001.
• Hands-on understanding of statutory environmental requirements.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with ISO 14001:2015 and environmental legislation.
• Conduct site inspections and audits for environmental compliance.
• Collect and collate environmental data for client reporting.

Skills

Environmental management

Sustainability initiatives

Stakeholder engagement

Compliance inspections

Environmental assessments

Education

Degree in a relevant subject

Full member of IEMA or equivalent

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Environment & Sustainability Advisor to join our Transportation Team based across London and Radlett. Working on our prestigious TKJV and Transport for London (TfL) contracts, which we will be leading on for the next 4 years, with the possibility to extend up to an extra 4 years. Within this role, you can enjoy a competitive annual holiday entitlement with enhanced sick pay, a huge range of deals and discounts at many of your favourite brands, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family and even more

Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location: Edmonton / Southwark / Staines, London

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum

What will you be responsible for?

As Senior Environment & Sustainability Advisor, you'll be working within the SHE team supporting the delivery of our environmental compliance commitments and aiding sustainability initiatives, you will be advising our team on the legal, client and company requirements and procedures meeting environmental compliance obligations, objectives and targets.

Your day to day will include:

• Ensuring the contract application of the Kier Group integrated management system (IMS) is meeting the requirements of ISO 14001:2015, providing support, guidance, and assistance in obtaining environmental consents, licenses and exemptions following all required legislation
• Carrying out documented site inspections and audits of the TKJV and TfL tunnels contracts, maintaining compliance to applicable environmental legislation, conducting environmental assessments of Kier designed schemes, prior to construction, meeting all compliance requirements, confirming relevant mitigation is in place and understanding opportunities for improvements, producing, reviewing and implementing risk assessments and method statements
• Work with operational and commercial colleagues to ensure the timely collection and collation of environmental data, (including but not limited to key areas such as carbon reporting, waste, material use and water) for client and other reporting requirements (such as regulatory reporting)
• Raising awareness of key environmental issues, identifying training needs, and delivering environmental compliance training
• Reinforcing the implementation of the contract's sustainability commitments and initiatives, producing case studies, capturing key learning, carbon and other benefits

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Environment & Sustainability Advisor is great for you if:

• You are educated to a degree level or similar in a relevant subject, you will be a professional or full level member of IEMA or equivalent and have experience working in environmental management, preferably in a construction environment, including assessing / identifying the environmental impacts associated with proposed works, comfortably identifying potential risks / issues on site, advising on appropriate control / mitigation measures
• Demonstrate practical experience in maintaining, implementing and improving EMS's certified to BS EN ISO 14001, familiar in carrying out compliance inspections and audits resulting in improved performance, hands on understanding of statutory environmental requirements, including requirements relating to all the key areas associated with environmental assessments of highway construction works
• Exposure liaising with stakeholders including statutory bodies, completing environmental permits or consent applications, along with collecting and collating environmental data including carbon

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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