Environmental Advisor

We're looking for Environmental Advisor to join our Natural Resources team to deliver projects for our Thames Water framework, based from our home but travelling weekly to sites and offices across the patch.

Location: this is a site based role across Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Greater London with some travel to our Gerrards Cross office also 

Contract: Permanent, Full Time – flexible and part time hours may be available if desired, just let us know

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

Responsibilities

As Environmental Advisor, you'll be responsible for providing guidance and support to the project delivery teams to maintain environmental legal compliance and support delivery of the Kier Building for a Sustainable World Framework.  You'll assist in maintaining conformity with Kier and client environmental management systems and support the Kier Business Stream and clients meet their sustainability targets and deliver works in line with the Kier and client Sustainability policies.

Your day to day will include:

• Acting as the first point of contact for project and design teams concerning environmental management
• Assisting / leading the development of the project Environmental Management System and Identifying, developing, and facilitating environmental training
• Conducting environmental audits and site inspections and support third-party audits
• Identifying and supporting project teams to obtain and comply with regulatory and client requirement and attending client meetings and industry forums as required
• Complete Reports on activity, inspection findings, incidents, action plan items and KPIs

What are we looking for?

This role of Environmental Advisor is great for you if you:

• Demonstrate experience in environmental management and in assessing environmental aspects and impacts
• Practice of developing mitigation proposals and implementing environmental management procedures to avoid or reduce environmental effects
• Good knowledge and practical experience of developing, implementing and improving EMS's certified to BS EN ISO 14001
• Knowledge of statutory environmental requirements that might relate to things such as Air quality; Community; Ecology and biodiversity; Health; Landscape and visual; Sound, noise and vibration; Traffic and transport; Water resources and flood risk; Waste and materials; Climate change/carbon management.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

If you would like to explore more about the incredible growth and scale of our water business, dive into our diverse project portfolios, and uncover both current and future career opportunities. You can see more information about our water business here.

There's never been a better time to get involved, register your interest today and take the first step toward a rewarding career with us!

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.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier #LI-CH