Senior Environmental Advisor

We are looking for a Senior Environmental Advisor to join our team based in Oxford, Cambridge and Bedford. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more

Location: Oxford, Cambridge and Bedford

Hours: 37.5 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.

What will you be responsible for?

As Senior Environmental Advisor you'll be working within our SHEA team, supporting the design and delivery of projects, such as East West Rail. The role will provide specialist advise to the project teams on the legal, client and company requirements and procedures ensuring all the required environmental compliance obligations, objectives and targets are met.

Your day to day will include:

• Meeting client environmental and sustainability requirements and commitments, i.e. East West Rail, Network Rail Environmental & Social Minimum Requirements (NR/L2/ENV/015), implementing the business environmental sustainability strategy and supporting project teams in its development
• Updating and maintaining the environmental and social management plan and supporting documents
• Identifying all environmental permits, licences, consents, and other 3rd party conditions are in place in a timely manner, communicating and complying with all conditions, engaging with supply chain and procurement functions maximising environmental sustainability benefits and meeting client requirements, working proactively with project delivery teams identifying, communicating and managing environmental risk and opportunities 
• Working with the Head of Environment for Rail promoting consistency of environmental delivery across Kier Transportation major projects' portfolio aiding with Kier Transportations One Planet Action Plan on the project
• Monitoring and measuring environmental performance setting standards and identifying opportunities for improvement or developing best practice, identifying, developing and supporting delivery of environmental toolbox talks and environmental training to the project delivery teams

What are we looking for?

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

• You have a Degree level qualification (minimum HNC / HND) in a discipline relevant to the environmental / sustainability industry, are an Associate or member of an environmental institute
• Hold relevant experience in environmental management, also sound knowledge and practical experience of maintaining, implementing and improving EMS's certified to BS EN ISO 14001
• It is imperative you can bring an understanding of the broad sustainability agenda and general sustainability issues, best practice and associated legislation with an emphasis on environmental sustainability

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 join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier

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