Environmental Sustainability Advisor

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Environmental Sustainability Advisor – Sizewell C Rail Link

Sustainability

Sizewell & Leiston (Suffolk)

To provide support and guidance to our project team working on the rail links to the Sizewell C Nuclear Power Station development. This will be on all aspects of environmental management, meeting legal and company standards and helping deliver a culture of continual improvement. You will be supporting site-set up, construction controls and mitigations, sustainability opportunities and engagement throughout the construction.

Specifically, the role holder will:

• Work closely with project teams to deliver environmental and sustainability commitments, ensuring ongoing compliance with the company and customer requirements, working with clients such as Sizewell C and Network Rail.
• Demonstrate active leadership on site to proactively drive continual improvement to deliver positive outcomes, best practice and positive learning with the Project Team in line with the company Rail Sustainability Plan.
• Provide environmental support, guidance, and compliance monitoring to projects, ensuring development and maintenance of key environmental documentation and records. Ensuring controls and sustainable ways of working are communicated at site level.
• Lead planned environmental inspections and incident investigations as required. Document best practices and lessons learnt, actively sharing successes and learning.
• Proactively support the Project Team to engage local community groups, supply chain and stakeholders via social sustainability activities, ensuring positive contribution to the communities where we work.

Organisational:
Environmental Sustainability Team

Internal:
Environmental Sustainability Manager, Environmental Sustainability Advisors, HSE Manager, Operations Director, Project Director, Senior Project Manager and Project team, Site and contract operational teams, Head of Environmental Sustainability, HSE team, Subcontractors, Procurement & Supply Chain Management, and Winning Business Teams as required.

External:
Customer / Client Representatives, Environmental Bodies/Regulators, External Environment & Sustainability Forums, and Groups, Project Key Stakeholders.

The accountabilities and responsibilities of the role holder include to:

• Contribute to the implementation of our company sustainability plan driving actions, monitoring progress and reporting.
• Manage project environmental and social risks and opportunities, supporting project teams to develop and maintain local environmental management and sustainability plans and risk assessments.
• Actively lead environment and sustainability, engaging project teams to encourage and promote sustainable behaviours and innovations, deliver positive outcomes and maintain project documentation.
• Provide support and advice on environmental management, compliance and project specific mitigation measures including pollution control and ecology protection.
• Support applications for consent, licences or permits as required and ensure project environmental compliance responsibilities are maintained.
• Upskill the project team and contractors on environment and sustainability responsibilities and controls via work package plans, toolbox talks and on-site learning and development.
• Accurately record and report environment and sustainability data, best practices and lessons learnt.
• Ensure upload of data monthly to the sustainability portal.
• Support work winning activities as required.
• Monitor and investigate environmental incidents, complaints and close call reporting. Ensure corrective actions are taken forward and support the business to implement controls to prevent repeat occurrence.
• Undertake planned &…