Senior Environmental Advisor

We're looking for a Senior Environmental Advisor to join our Environment Agency Collaborative Delivery Framework team based in Bristol/Wessex region on a 12 month fixed term contract.

Location: Bristol/Wessex region

Contract: 12-month fixed term contract

Hours: 40 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

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

This is a unique opportunity to join our Environment Agency Collaborative Delivery Framework contract supporting flood defence projects across the South West. You'll oversee complex environmental matters, drive sustainability and ensure we're meeting our client's expectations on a complex framework. This is a fantastic opportunity to work on environmentally complex schemes where genuine innovation is being undertaken, and you'll form part of an award-winning team.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Environmental Advisor, you'll be working within the Environment team, supporting them in delivering flood defence projects and embedding sustainability in everything we do.

Your day to day will include:

• Providing technical advice to project teams on environmental management and ensuring environmental compliance
• Ensuring effective implementation and reporting of our environmental monitoring regime and audit programme through site visits
• Liaising with clients, regulatory bodies, and subcontractors on matters of environmental management and sustainability to drive best practice
• Completing audits and inspections, investigating environmental incidents and implementing controls to prevent recurrence
• Helping to deliver project level sustainability targets covering environmental compliance, carbon reduction and social sustainability

What are we looking for?

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

• Experience working in an Environmental Advisor role within the infrastructure or construction sectors
• Member of a professional body (e.g. IEMA, CIWEM, CIWM etc)
• An understanding of environmental legislation, impact mitigation and dealing with statutory authorities
• Experience of managing a variety of environmental risks and understanding their impacts in terms of time, cost and regulation
• An understanding of the benefits of working collaboratively to obtain the best outcomes for the projects 
• Good interpersonal and communication skills and can effectively communicate environmental risks and controls to different audiences 
• Working knowledge of ISO 14001
• Full driving licence and can travel across the Bristol/Wessex region to support projects

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.

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.