Enviromental & Sustainability Manager; Sizewell C

Environment & Sustainability Manager

Location:

Based in our Suffolk office with hybrid working available

To provide environmental and sustainability leadership, promote best practice and ensure the Sizewell C site and associated developments maintain on site compliance with Environmental Permits and Licences.

• Provide clear and concise leadership at all times to direct reports and Tier 1 suppliers.
• Ensure compliance arrangements are established and maintained to deliver compliance with environmental commitments and conditions with numerous site environmental permits, consents and licences.
• Manage, co‑ordinate and monitor environmental and sustainability activities on site to ensure full compliance with agreed environmental standards and expectations.
• Ensure world‑class environmental behaviour and culture with the teams on site and supply chain including provision of strategic environmental leadership for the SZC site.
• Ensure that significant environmental aspects identified for the project are managed and mitigated appropriately.
• Drive environmental and sustainability performance with the SZC project and operations teams as well as Tier One contractors to deliver best practice.
• Work with the Client Team on engagement with local Environmental Regulators, in particular the Environment Agency.
• Provide a highly professional customer/client‑based service in all aspects of environmental and regulatory interfaces.
• Maintain compliance with ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management System Standard, ensuring that, through its implementation, the effects of the construction site's activities conform to its environmental policy and associated objectives and targets.
• Maintain oversight and responsibility for the programme of site environmental inspections and surveillance activities.
• Develop and implement site environmental performance measurements (KPIs), review and reporting requirements to drive continuous environmental improvement.
• Event management: undertake environmental investigations to establish performance improvements and learning.
• Ensure that department resources, processes and activities are reviewed and optimised to achieve SZC project objectives; ensure all section staff are assessed, appraised, trained and developed in line with project needs.
• Manage the department's activities to meet agreed quality standards, ensuring compliance with the SZC Project Quality Manual and quality improvement programme and meet prescribed service levels, standards and targets by ensuring procedural adherence of the team and contractors.
• Develop professional working relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders including the Client Environment Team, internal regulator, site operations team, Tier 1 contractors and regulators.
• Ensure that construction experience feedback is promoted and used to enable continuous improvement in environmental and sustainability performance.

• Must have extensive skills leading E&S teams working on large complex highly regulated construction projects.
• Must have a broad range of construction field skills, preferably full life cycle from civils to mechanical electrical and completions.
• Credible demonstrable leadership and influencing skills and experience.
• A detailed understanding of the requirements and arrangements needed to deliver compliance with environmental permits, licences and consents.
• A good understanding of the expectations, opportunities and limitations with regards to sustainability on a large infrastructure project.
• Experience of driving the sustainability agenda in a previous project would be an advantage.
• An understanding of the challenges faced through site preparation works, construction, installation and commissioning of complex engineering projects, ensuring manufactured as specified and built as designed.
• General professional qualities such as accuracy, attention to detail, tenacity and being result‑oriented; the ability to work well within a team, good organisational skills and the ability to work independently and be pro‑active.
• Strong assurance and challenge skills with…