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Sustainability Advisor

October 12, 2022 | Comments Off on Sustainability Advisor

We are now recruiting for a sustainability advisor to join our Highways team in Doxey to support the Environment and Sustainability Manager on the early civils works contract for HS2 Phase 2a. This contract delivers highways improvements and survey works to facilitate the construction of HS2. The role is to ensure that sustainability and carbon reduction is embedded throughout the design and delivery of works in line with best practice, HS2 policies and contract requirements. Within this role you can enjoy private healthcare, car or car allowance, a competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave and even more.

Location: This is an agile role where you will be based out of our Doxey office with home working available and some travel to other offices and sites

Contract: Full Time, Permanent

Salary: £Competitive

Responsibilities

As Sustainability Advisor/Lead you will act as sustainability champion, leading workshops to promote the uptake of sustainability best practice and drive carbon reduction.

Your day to day will include:

  • providing advice to multidisciplinary teams to help develop and implement sustainable design and construction practices in line with HS2 technical standards and requirements.
  • maintaining a carbon management process in accordance with PAS2080 and coordinate carbon and sustainability reporting will be a key aspect of the role
  • develop sustainability plans and documentation and coordinate the production of documentation
Who are we looking for?

This role of a Sustainability Advisor/Sustainability Lead is great for you if have:

  • membership of a relevant professional institute (such as IEMA, CIEEM etc.) where membership level requires a peer review process is required for the role
  • excellent technical sustainability knowledge and experience ideally gained within a construction related environment
  • the ability to work independently and effectively prioritise a diverse workload
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk to discuss and arrange these.

Benefits at Kier

We're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:

  • New and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
  • A fantastic matched pension scheme
  • A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
  • Share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans
  • 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
  • Kier's Green Car Scheme
And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website: kier.co.uk/careers/rewards-benefits

Who is Kier?

We're made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK. Take a look at our sustainability objectives: kier.co.uk/sustainability/

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

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 (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

You can see more about our D&I action plan here: kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf

Closing date: 9 November 2022

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.

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