M Group Energy
Senior Environmental Advisor
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Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine.
Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
At M Group Energy, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.
We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.
This role will be within our Transmission & Renewables team. We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity.
What will you be doing:
We’re recruiting for a Senior Environmental Advisor to join our SHEQ team in and around Aberdeen.
We are a leading partner in the largest programme of energy infrastructure upgrade works in the UK since the construction of the National Grid. This role is vital to help us deliver our projects and will be working within our overhead line and substation businesses.
You’ll be responsible for day-to-day environmental management of high-profile projects, working directly with site teams and customer representatives.
This role is site based as you will be supporting our Scottish clients, although there may be some rare requirements to travel to England and Wales. As this role is site based, we do require you to have a driving licence.
- Provide specialist support on ecological, environmental and sustainability matters across the business.
- Identify and address wider environmental risks, offering advice, training, controls and mitigation for site‑based projects.
- Review technical information and extract key elements to brief and guide site teams.
- Carry out environmental and ecological surveys during construction and reinstatement phases.
- Prepare written responses for tender submissions, including risks, opportunities and innovations.
- Work with specialist partners and internal teams to develop costs, programmes and workable methodologies.
- Contribute to the development, maintenance and implementation of environmental management procedures and processes.
- Ensure the business remains legally compliant and drives continual improvement and best practice.
- Support delivery of sustainability targets and commitments under the company’s Sustainability Strategy.
- Implement meaningful changes relating to carbon reduction, waste management, workforce upskilling and community benefits.
- Select and manage third‑party contractors delivering ecological and environmental works.
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What You’ll Bring
- Minimum five years’ experience working in an environmental role within a construction environment.
- Degree (or equivalent qualification/experience) in Ecology, Environmental Science, Environmental Management or a related subject.
- Full UK driving licence.
- Good understanding of ISO 14001, ISO 9001 and ISO 45001.
- Good working knowledge of UK environmental legislation, standards and guidelines.
- Experience implementing environmental and sustainability initiatives, improvements and mitigation.
- Detailed understanding of environmental survey methods, assessment techniques, mitigation and control measures.
- Experience in subcontractor appointment and management.
- Experience delivering works under planning permission or Development Consent Orders / Section 37.
- Previous experience reviewing near‑miss and incident reports and conducting environmental investigations.
What’s in it for you?
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private health care and health care cash plan
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
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About Us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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