Environmental Manager - Environmental Services (Birmingham, UK) en Burns & McDonnell

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  Provide on-site field monitoring and project level advice and support to ensure construction compliance with national environmental legislation and regulations, conformance to company environmental and sustainability policies, processes, standards and procedures.

  • Conduct on-site field monitoring to ensure continued compliance of ongoing construction activities at project sites with environmental legislative and regulatory requirements, company standards and others as applicable.
  • Work with the Quality & Compliance Manager and H&S Manager to develop, review and ensure implementation of the Environmental Management System including ISO 14001 certification.
  • Advise and support with obtaining environmental licences, permits and consents and monitor their compliance on construction projects.
  • Collaborate with our subcontractors and supply chain to deliver best value solutions whilst aligning with our corporate Environmental and Sustainability strategy, goals and objectives.
  • Collaborate with other environmental specialists, sub-contractors and sub-consultants, in fields of hazardous material management and remediation, ecology, archaeology, hydrology, environmental planning and consents, traffic, etc.
  • Interface with external stakeholders such as local authorities, EA, SEPA, Natural England, etc.
  • Performance reporting
  • Collation of data and data analysis and subsequently providing recommendations for future actions and measures.
  • Conduct environmental incident investigations.
  • Prepare and deliver communications, including bulletins, alerts, toolbox talks, briefings and training
  • Maintain personal development keeping up to date with knowledge and competency levels in relation to environmental management and sustainability.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and 7 years minimum in an environmental position in a high-compliance construction industry.

• Ideally 2-3 years’ experience of an environmental position in a power T&D related industry.

   

• Active credential and/or recent project experience as a CEEQUAL Assessor or an Envision Sustainability Professional (from the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure).

Desirable

• Chartered or working towards chartership of a relevant professional Institution (e.g., CIEEM, CIWEM, IEMA, IES, etc.).
• Project experience or working knowledge of:
  • the SuRe standard for sustainable and resilient infrastructure (from GIB: Global Infrastructure Basel),
  • PEER (power system performance and electricity infrastructure),
  • RELi (project resilience, including hazard mitigation and adaptation).
• Working knowledge of or familiarity with:
  • BREEAM, 
  • LEED, 
  • Green Globes,
  • Sustainable SITES.
• Experience of preparing briefing materials and training
• Experience of EMS and developing policies and procedures.  
• Experience of auditing and inspection.  
• The ability to remain calm and focused when under pressure.
• Good interpersonal skills, operating with empathy, clear communicator and influencer.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• A passion for environmental protection and making a real difference.
• A self-starter and finisher.  Able to work on own or as part of a team.
• Computer literate.
• Familiarity with concepts such as: 
  • materiality assessment
  • risk/opportunity matrix
  • climate risk assessment
  • resilience
  • climate adaptation plan 
  • biodiversity 
  • ecosystem services and co-benefits
  • green (versus grey) infrastructure 
  • low-impact development (LID)
  • onsite wastewater treatment 
  • sustainability action plan
  • environmentally preferred material 
  • environmental product declaration (EPD) 
  • chain-of-custody 
  • by-product synergy 
  • socioeconomic sustainability 
  • circular economy principles in construction 
  • net embodied carbon and energy 
    • lifecycle assessment
    • triple-bottom-line cost-benefit analysis 
    • carbon and water footprint 
    • greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 
    • science based GHG reduction targets 
    • design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) 
    • modern methods of construction (MMC)

    • sustainable construction plan