VINCI Energies
Environmental & Sustainability Manager
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Job Title: Environment & Sustainability Manager
Reporting to: Business Unit General Manager
Business Unit: MPS
Role Purpose
The Environment and Sustainability Manager will provide support and advice to our electricity substation and overhead line operational teams on all aspects of sustainability and environmental management; developing documentation, compliance with legal, regulatory, and company standards, and helping to promote environmental best practice and deliver a culture of continual improvement.
The individual will be required to work with clients, regulators, and project teams to ensure all Environmental and Sustainability requirements are complied with, supporting on-site mitigation, sustainability of works, and engagement with local stakeholders as required.
The role will require regular travel across England to visit various project sites as required.
Responsibilities & Duties
Including but not limited to the following:
- Provide advice and support to Environment & Sustainability Advisors across multiple sites.
- Provide advice and support to operational teams on environmental and sustainability matters including pollution control, water management, ecology, archaeology and carbon reduction.
- Assist the team in monitoring and maintaining compliance with environmental legislation, best practice, project documentation and company procedures.
- Identify and manage environmental constraints associated with projects.
- Conduct site inspections to assess compliance against project documentation and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Collate environmental and sustainability data to facilitate reporting against key metrics, objectives and targets.
- Identify carbon reduction opportunities in infrastructure and alignment with industry / project sustainability targets. Produce Sustainability Action Plans to actively reduce embodied carbon in our projects.
- Assist in the development and delivery of environmental training.
- Assist with the development of Environmental Management System documentation and procedures.
- Assist with developing and implementing environmental mitigation and monitoring regimes.
- Maintain relationships and liaise with regulators, stakeholders, clients, project teams and subcontractors.
- Investigate environmental incidents and support the business in implementing controls to prevent recurrence.
- Identify and support sustainability activities for the project and business.
- Advise the business on best practice in areas of corporate, ethical, and social responsibility, and address any issues arising.
- Produce internal and external reports as required (e.g. Construction Environmental Management Plans, best practice bulletins, case studies, environmental and sustainability performance reports).
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Person Specification
Essential Criteria
The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator with all stakeholders (internal and external), a commercially focused self-starter with the enthusiasm, motivation, and initiative to succeed in this role.
The Jobholder Must Possess
- Strong knowledge of environmental management within construction projects.
- Strong knowledge of applying sustainability within construction projects.
- Relevant industry experience working in an environmental or sustainability role.
- Knowledge and understanding of main environmental legislation and guidance.
- Full UK driver’s licence and flexibility to travel regularly within the England region.
- Ability to establish effective networks, both internally and externally.
- Ability to collate and report construction data via internal systems.
- Ability and willingness to work flexibly between home, office, and site.
- Ability to provide advice and mentoring to other members of the team.
- Strong communication skills, both oral and written.
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Desirable Criteria
- Educated to degree/masters level in Environmental Science, Environmental Management, Sustainability, or related discipline.
- Practical experience and knowledge of sustainability, environmental legislation, ecology mitigation, environmental licences and consent applications, and regulator consultation experience.
- Previous experience conducting environmental inspections.
- Understanding of the construction environment.
- Knowledge of electricity infrastructure.
- Membership of an environmental organisation (e.g. ISEP).
- Experience of PAS 2080 and ISO14001.
Values
In line with Omexom’s values, the jobholder must have the following qualities:
- Team Spirit & Generosity – able to work effectively within and contribute to the Omexom team to deliver results, provide support and drive performance.
- Trust and Empowerment – enjoy managing their responsibilities and time to ensure work is completed efficiently and professionally.
- Integrity and Responsibility – enjoy taking responsibility for their duties and managing these effectively to ensure efficient high quality results.
- Innovation & Entrepreneurship – continually strive to improve processes and introduce new initiatives to improve efficiency.
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