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Senior Environmental Advisor

October 18, 2022 | Comments Off on Senior Environmental Advisor

We are now recruiting for a Senior Environmental Advisor to join our Highways team in Doxey, Staffordshire. The purpose of the role is to support the Environment and Sustainability Manager on HS2 EWC02 contract to ensure that all environmental requirements and best practice is embedded throughout the design and delivery of works in line with policies and contract requirements. Travel is a requirement of this job to establish relationships and undertake site inspections. Previous experience of working to HS2 environmental requirements is desirable. Within this role, you can enjoy private healthcare, a car or car allowance, 26 days holiday plus bank holidays and even more

Location: Doxey, Staffordshire - remote working available, with some travel to other offices and sites required.

Contract: Permanent, Fulltime

Salary: £Competitive

Responsibilities

As Senior Environmental Advisor, you'll be providing advice and solutions to the design and construction teams on reducing environmental impacts, meeting all environmental requirements.

Your day to day will include:
  • Produce environmental plans and documents; review documents produced by other to provide assurance against environmental requirements
  • Undertake environmental site inspections to ensure environmental compliance; make sure corrective and preventive actions are implemented and environmental incidents reported and investigated
  • Develop environmental guidance and training. Identify and promote environmental opportunities and best practice

Who are we looking for?

The role of Senior Environmental Advisor is great for you if have:
  • Experience working in a similar role on construction related projects
  • Ability to work autonomously and effectively prioritise a diverse workload
  • Excellent team player, adaptable to work across various environmental disciplines
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 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
  • 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: 15 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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