Senior Environmental Manager

Shirley Parsons Ltd; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Shirley Parsons Ltd is partnering with a major organisation to appoint an experienced Senior Environment Manager for a high-profile infrastructure programme in the West Midlands. You will provide client-side environmental leadership, assurance and challenge across a significant delivery area, with autonomy to shape site activities and engagement with delivery teams.

You will lead environmental assurance, influence contractor delivery and get out on site to audit and inspect, working with

Qualifications

• Experience delivering environmental leadership on large infrastructure projects.
• Ability to conduct audits/inspections and provide assurance on-site.

Responsibilities

• Lead environmental assurance across your area ensuring compliance with commitments, regulations and standards.
• Influence contractor delivery by embedding environmental requirements throughout delivery.
• Get out on site to perform audits, inspections and assurance checks.
• Develop practical mitigation strategies for landscape, ecology and wider environmental impacts.
• Lead and coordinate environmental activities with specialists and contractor teams.

Skills

Environmental leadership

Audits & inspections

Stakeholder engagement

Regulatory knowledge

Delivery leadership

Job description

We re excited to be partnered with a major organisation delivering a high-profile, complex infrastructure programme, as they look to appoint an experienced Senior Environment Manager to join their team.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an environmental professional who wants to move beyond simply providing technical advice and take a genuine leadership role in delivery. You ll work closely with the main contractor, providing client-side environmental leadership, assurance and challenge across a significant area of a major construction programme. You ll be close to the action - getting out on site, undertaking audits and inspections, building relationships with contractor teams and using your environmental expertise and people skills to influence how things are delivered.

With key environmental impact areas including landscape, ecology and wider environmental considerations, you ll have the opportunity to tackle complex challenges, shape practical solutions and make a visible difference. And importantly, this is a role with real autonomy. You ll have the freedom to manage your own diary, plan your site activity and decide how best to engage with the delivery team to achieve the right outcomes.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead Environmental Assurance Take ownership of environmental assurance across your area, making sure construction activities meet environmental commitments, regulatory requirements and project standards.
• Influence Contractor Delivery Build solid relationships with the main contractor, providing constructive challenge and guidance while ensuring environmental requirements are embedded throughout delivery.
• Get Out on Site Be close to the work, carrying out audits, inspections and assurance checks, identifying issues and opportunities and making sure environmental standards are being delivered in practice.
• Solve Complex Challenges Work alongside engineering, environmental and delivery specialists to develop practical, cost-conscious mitigation strategies across areas such as landscape, ecology and wider environmental impacts.
• Lead & Coordinate Manage one environmental professional while collaborating with a broad range of technical specialists, stakeholders and contractor teams to drive excellent environmental performance.

Who they're looking for:

• Major Project Experience You'll have experience working in environmental management on a large, complex infrastructure project or programme, ideally within a challenging delivery environment.
• An Excellent Influencer People skills are essential. You'll be confident building relationships, influencing contractor teams and senior stakeholders, and challenging constructively when standards or requirements aren't being met.
• Technical Credibility You'll have key knowledge of UK environmental legislation and regulatory requirements, alongside the technical expertise to provide credible environmental leadership and assurance.
• Commercially Minded You'll understand the realities of major project delivery and be comfortable balancing environmental requirements with cost, programme and engineering considerations to find practical solutions.
• Autonomous & Delivery-Focused You'll be someone who takes ownership, manages competing priorities confidently and enjoys being trusted to organise your own time, site activity and stakeholder engagement.

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