Environmental Manager

Overview

In this Environmental Manager role, you’ll lead sustainability and environmental practices across major construction activities. You will partner with the SHESQ function and site teams to ensure regulatory compliance and effective risk controls. You’ll investigate incidents, analyse data for improvement, and drive environmental campaigns and consent management. The position focuses on Net Zero and emissions reduction within energy and infrastructure projects. This is a chance to shape responsible infrastructure delivery within a forward-thinking team.

Pay / Benefits

• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays
• contributory pension scheme and life assurance
• health screening and enhanced sick pay
• enhanced maternity and paternity benefits
• professional development and training
• subsidised canteen facilities at core locations

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership on environmental and sustainability practices with SHESQ
• Ensure management controls and duties are understood by personnel
• Collaborate with site teams to ensure compliance with plans and legislation
• Lead environmental incident investigations and implement preventive measures
• Review data to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities
• Develop and implement environmental campaigns, procedures, and docs
• Manage environmental consents, licences, permits, and exemptions
• Prepare reports, pre-qualification submissions, tenders and sustainability award entries

Key requirements

• Chartered membership of IEMA or equivalent qualification
• Practical risk mitigation experience on major construction and infrastructure projects
• Knowledge of waste, water management, pollution prevention, nuisance, contaminated land and ecological mitigation
• Experience with environmental consents, licensing, Development Consent Orders, Biodiversity Net Gain
• Strong understanding of Net Zero principles and sustainability strategies
• Experience in carbon measurement, reporting and emissions reduction actions
• Experience in environmental incident management, investigation and corrective action planning
• Excellent communication, report-writing, analytical and stakeholder management skills
• excellent communication
• stakeholder management
• analytical thinking
• environmental risk mitigation
• environmental incident management
• consents, licensing and regulatory compliance

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