Senior Sustainability Advisor: Strategy, Compliance & Data

Laing O'Rourke; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Laing O'Rourke is seeking a Senior Sustainability Advisor in the UK. This role involves driving sustainability performance and ensuring compliance across projects. Key responsibilities include monitoring sustainability KPIs, providing client support, and developing Social Value Plans. Ideal candidates will have a degree in a related field, proven experience in sustainability, and strong skills in data analysis and stakeholder management. The position offers a chance to contribute to important sustainability initiatives and requires willingness to travel.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in sustainability or environmental management.
• Strong knowledge of compliance frameworks like ISO 14001, ISO 50001.
• Experience in sustainability reporting and KPI tracking.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and report on sustainability KPIs.
• Provide support on projects for environmental compliance.
• Develop and maintain Social Value Plans.
• Lead annual sustainability data collection.

Skills

Sustainability experience

Environmental compliance knowledge

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Organizational skills

Education

Degree level qualified

Job description

Senior Sustainability Advisor
Location: Open (Birmingham, CEMC, Oldbury, Manchester, or St Neots preferred)

Laing O'Rourke are looking for a Senior Sustainability Advisor to support our Specialist Trading Business Group (STBG) businesses. All of our STBG's are committed to delivering measurable sustainability outcomes aligned with Laing O'Rourke's Science-Based Targets initiative and wider sustainability objectives. These commitments span environmental performance, compliance, low-carbon innovation, and social value delivery—key to maintaining our licence to operate and competitive edge across both external and internal projects.

The Senior Sustainability Advisor plays a critical, hands-on role in driving sustainability performance and ensuring environmental compliance across STBG businesses, including Vetter, Select, and CHT. This role focuses on turning strategic commitments into consistent, measurable, and auditable actions across projects and fixed facilities.

KeyResponsibilities

Sustainability StrategyDelivery

• Monitor, track, and report progress against agreed sustainability KPIs.
• Review data, identify trends and turn outputs into actions

External Project & Client Support

• Provide sustainability and environmental support across Select, Crown House Technologies, and Vetter projects.
• Manage client andmonthly reporting requirements includingincluding BREEAM assessments where applicable.

Statutory Compliance & Management Systems

• Support the implementation and maintenance of ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 management systems across depots and facilities.
• Coordinate audits, inspections, and ensure timely close-out of corrective actions.

Social Value Delivery

• Develop and maintain Social Value Plans for fixed facilities.
• Track progress and maintain robust, auditable evidence of delivery.

Performance Data & Reporting

• Lead the collection and validation of annual sustainability data.
• Ensure accuracy and consistency across key metrics, including energy, carbon, waste, and social value.
  
  

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience in sustainability, environmental management, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of environmental compliance frameworks and standards (e.g., ISO 14001, ISO 50001).
• Experience with sustainability reporting, data analysis, and KPI tracking.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and deliver across a diverse project portfolio.
• Strong organisational skills with attention to detail and a focus on audit-ready outputs.
• Degree level qualified to ensure sufficient technical knowledge
• Preferable auditing experience
• Be willing to travel
• Professional membership/chartership is desirable

About Us

Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty,reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

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