Senior Environmental Sustainability Adviser

October 5, 2022 | Comments Off on Senior Environmental Sustainability Adviser

Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor

Oxford - site based - home working until project is launched

Permanent

An exciting opportunity to work on a newly awarded project based in Oxford. This is a great opportunity to be part of the Laing O'Rourke Environmental team which is experiencing a time of investment and growth.

The Senior Environmental Advisor will be responsible for implementing strategy, driving innovation and providing environmental assurance across two major projects in the Oxford area.

Are you passionate about the environmental attributes in delivering projects?

Do you have the drive to provide environmental assurance and technical capabilities to support project leaders and the delivery teams from pre-construction through to completion and handover?

What are the key deliverables for this role?
  • Implement the business environmental sustainability strategy and support project teams with developing this
  • Early "hands on" engagement to deliver processes and procedures (EMS and EnMS)
  • Provide early advice and direct help to the project, clients and contractors to assist with the resolution of environmental challenges
  • Engage with supply chain and Procurement function to maximise environmental sustainability benefit and meet client requirements
  • Ensure the project complies with environmental legislation and minimise potential risks
  • Promote the reduction of energy use and carbon emissions and the implementation of waste reduction and managing with leanness
  • Monitor and measure environmental performance, and undertake inspections or audits of the projects

What experience do we require?

  • Setting standards and ensuring compliance
  • Experience carrying out site audits and inspection
  • Incident investigation
  • Statistical reporting and analysis
  • Coaching, facilitating and training

About us:

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it.

Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

Diversity & Sustainability:

We value and care about difference at Laing O'Rourke and believe a diverse team drives innovation.

We are a global multicultural business committed to the inclusion of all employees, enabling everyone to feel accepted, respected & valued for being themselves.

We have set out far-reaching global sustainability targets including a commitment to achieve equal numbers of men and women amongst our global staff by 2033.

Additional:

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please get in touch.