Environment and Sustainability Manager; Sizewell C

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Lead a high‑performance environmental and sustainability program at Sizewell C, driving compliance, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement across pre‑construction, construction delivery, and commissioning stages.

• Provide clear, consistent leadership to direct reports and Tier 1 suppliers, promoting a high‑performance environmental and sustainability culture.
• Establish, maintain, and oversee compliance arrangements aligned with all environmental commitments, permits, consents, and licences.
• Manage, coordinate, and monitor environmental and sustainability activities across site operations to maintain compliance with agreed standards and expectations.
• Champion world‑class environmental behaviours across site teams and the wider supply chain, including the provision of strategic environmental leadership.
• Ensure that significant environmental aspects associated with the project are identified, controlled, and effectively mitigated.
• Drive environmental and sustainability performance across the project and work collaboratively with Tier 1 contractors to embed best practice.
• Work with the client team to support engagement with environmental regulators, including the Environment Agency.
• Provide a highly professional, client‑focused service across all environmental and regulatory interfaces.
• Maintain compliance with ISO 14001:2015, ensuring environmental management systems support policy commitments, objectives, and continuous improvement.
• Maintain oversight of the programme of environmental inspections, surveillance, and performance monitoring.
• Develop, implement, and report on environmental performance indicators (KPIs) to support continuous improvement.
• Lead or support event and incident investigations, identifying learning and recommending actions to enhance performance.
• Review and optimise environmental department resources, processes, and activities to support project objectives.
• Ensure team members are assessed, appraised, trained, and developed in line with project requirements.
• Manage environmental functions to agreed quality standards, ensuring alignment with the project's Quality Manual and wider quality improvement initiatives.
• Build strong working relationships with internal teams, contractors, the internal regulator, and external regulatory bodies.
• Promote construction experience feedback and embed learning to enhance environmental and sustainability performance.
• Line management responsibility for 4 direct reports (total team of approximately 10).
• Required to influence environmental performance across the wider project supply chain.
• Responsibilities span pre‑construction, construction delivery, and commissioning.
• Supporting numerous multidisciplinary delivery teams and several Tier 1 contractors, with a combined workforce peak of approximately 8,000 personnel.
• Management of the environmental monitoring budget.
• Accountable to the Head of Site Compliance.