Environment & Sustainability Manager

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The Role Right across infrastructure, theres a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage youre at in your career, with us youll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in afriendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working? At M Group Energy, were enabling the energy essential to support our lives. Our business delivers end-to-end energy infrastructure across Transmission, Distribution, EV and Home Decarbonisation. From building substations up to 400kV and maintaining networks, to enabling EV charging and supporting Net Zero, we play a key role in powering sustainable communities. Join us and be part of delivering essential infrastructure services for life.

This role will be a Environment & Sustainability Manager as part of our SHEQ team. Want to come and be a part of it? What will you be doing? As the Environment & Sustainability Manager, you're role will be based in Scotland. You'll lead environment and sustainability across the region, driving measurable improvements and embedding environmental excellence in operations. Ensuring compliance with legislation and the Environmental Management System, and you will lead assurance activities including audits, incident investigations and corrective actions.

You'll lead, develop and resource-plan a team of Environmental Advisers and Sustainability Advisers, building capability, training and best practice. Working closely with senior leaders, operational teams, clients and regulators, we'll ask you to communicate performance, risks and opportunities and drive cross-contract collaboration. In this role you will identify and champion innovations and digital solutions, developing business cases that deliver long-term value.

You will also support work winning, business development and contract mobilisation by providing critical environmental inputs.
* Please note this is only a job advert, not all key responsibilities our outlined. A full job specification can be provided. What youll bring Degree (or equivalent) in Environmental Management, Environmental Science, Sustainability or a related discipline, plus Chartered membership of ISEP (or equivalent), e.g., CEnv / CISEP (or working towards).

Experience of delivering works granted by planning permission or Section 37 agreement. ISO 14001 Internal Auditor qualification (or equivalent environmental management system/auditing experience). At least 5 years proven environmental leadership/management experience within large-scale construction, infrastructure, highways or utilities, including leading multi-disciplinary teams across multiple projects or contracts. Strategic, analytical and commercially aware, able to use data and risk analysis to make evidence-based decisions and translate strategy into practical delivery.

Values-led people leader with experience developing teams, holding others to account and driving continual improvement. Clear, credible communicator able to influence senior leaders, clients, regulators and operational teams, building trusted relationships and improving environmental performance and culture. Experience supporting work winning and mobilisation activities, including tender responses, presentations and bid inputs. Strong organisational, planning and project management skills, able to manage competing priorities and deliver to deadlines.

Approachable coaching style, able to respond to technical queries from operational teams. Full UK driving licence. Willingness to travel to various locations with regular overnight stays.

Whats in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
Matched or contributory pension scheme Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year Employee assistance programme My Rewards portal, access to 1000s of retail discounts Life assurance Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave Reward and recognition scheme In…