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Senior Environmental Advisor

February 20, 2023 | Comments Off on Senior Environmental Advisor

We're looking for an Environmental Manager or Senior Environmental Advisor to join our Highways team based in Doxey, Stafford working on HS2 Phase 2a enabling works contract EWC02. The contract delivers highways improvements and survey works to facilitate the construction the main railway. The role will support the Environment and Sustainability Manager to ensure that all environmental requirements and best practice is embedded throughout the design and delivery of works in line with HS2 policies and contract requirements. This is an exciting opportunity to work on a diverse and complex project. Within this role, you can enjoy private healthcare, competitive annual leave with the option to buy/sell and even more.

Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Highways and make a difference. Connecting roads, connecting people.

Location: Doxey, Stafford, agile working available, however as this role supports the construction activities there would be a need to be in the office or on site at least 3 days per week

Contract: Permanent - flexible and part-time hours available if desired, just let us know

Salary: Competitive

Responsibilities

In this role, you'll provide advice to the design, construction teams and subcontractors on reducing environmental impacts and meeting all environmental requirements

Your day to day will include:
  • liaising with design and construction teams to ensure that environmental issues are considered, and mitigation measures are implemented
  • producing environmental plans and documents; reviewing documents produced by other to ensure environmental requirements are met
  • undertaking environmental site inspections to ensure environmental compliance; ensuring any required corrective and preventive actions are implemented
  • reporting environmental incidents and carrying out investigations as required
  • supporting the Environment and Sustainability Manager in maintaining the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System including participation in audits
Who are we looking for?

This role is great for you if have:
  • demonstrable experience working as an Environmental Manager or Advisor or similar role on construction related projects.
  • good communication skills and the ability to influence multidisciplinary teams
  • ability to work autonomously and effectively prioritise a diverse workload
  • excellent team player, adaptable to work across various environmental disciplines
  • willingness to travel to establish relationships and undertake site inspections
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
  • fantastic matched pension scheme
  • life Assurance
  • 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
  • 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: 20 March 2023

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