Location | North London, United Kingdom |
Category | Civil Engineering |
Job Type | Permanent |
Salary | £45K-£60k per year |
Description
The main objective of the Senior Environmental Advisor is to assist in the project application of the Management System to meet the requirements of ISO 14001: 2015 and take a strategic lead in the sustainability strategy for the business.
This is a hybrid working role with a mixture of home and office/ site working.
The role
Responsibilities of the Senior Environmental Advisor will include:
-Consolidate data for scope 1, 2 and 3 and report in line with the company objectives and goals.
-Lead advisor for environmental issues on projects including design and construction stages
-Manage early schemes through the Environment Impact Assessment process to obtain planning permission prior to works and satisfy planning requirements
-Advise projects to ensure that all identified Risks and Opportunities are managed
-Liaise with stakeholders to obtain licenses and consents for individual contracts and ensure compliance with these at all times.
-Deliver environment and sustainability training to all levels within the project team
-Carry out key project environmental inspections/audits
-Regularly review the environmental files, to ensure correct completion and filing of records in accordance with the project programme.
-Ensuring environmental minimum requirements are met with the adoption and sharing of best practice and lessons learned shared across the business/industry.
-Manage subcontractors and specialist consultants to ensure their compliance with project requirements
-Carry out incident investigations, inspections, audits and third party audits on suppliers.
-Liaise with the community to look for engagement opportunities and mediate issues.
-Carry out any other duties appropriate to this post
Qualifications and experience required by the Senior Environmental Advisor:
-An effective communicator with confidence to speak in a wide range of audiences
-Organised with good time management skills
-Able to work on their own initiative
-Enthusiastic, motivated, hardworking and conscientious.
-Computer literate with excellent report writing skills
-Degree in an Environmental discipline and/or IEMA associate
-Practitioner member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment.