Location
Grays

Hours
Full Time (hours not specified)

Salary
Competitive salary (not specified)

About the Role
As an Environmental Sustainability Advisor, you will support the delivery of environmental sustainability on projects, ensuring compliance, stakeholder engagement, and performance reporting in line with the Building New Futures strategy. This role combines hands-on operational delivery with early-stage team guidance and influence. You will deliver value-adding environmental projects and support ecological enhancements, contribute to and maintain Involved Plans, and monitor compliance across projects. You will liaise with clients, regulatory bodies, and subcontractors on environmental management and sustainability matters. Your responsibilities include producing and updating environmental management plans, environmental risk assessments, and site information packs. You will provide on-site advice to operations and design teams on environmental management, compliance, and project-specific mitigation measures including pollution control and ecological and archaeological protection. Investigating environmental incidents and supporting the business to implement controls to prevent recurrence will also be part of your role. You will ensure the implementation of project environmental management systems on site and stay informed of changes to standards and legislation, recommending changes to systems and processes where applicable.

Why Work for Us
Our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting, and meaningful projects, developing, building, and maintaining vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities. We offer a full range of benefits, allowing you the freedom to shape a package that suits your life. Key benefits include smart working with flexible start and finish times and up to 40% remote working where roles allow, 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata), family-friendly policies including 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partner leave, pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes, and much more.

Experience
Knowledge of environmental management and sustainable development. Practical experience and knowledge of environmental legislation, ecology and archaeology mitigation, environmental licences, consent applications, and regulators. Understanding of ecological and archaeological matters and environmental law. Understanding of the construction/engineering operating environment. Knowledge or experience of Development Consent Orders (DCO) and Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs).

About You
Educated to degree level or able to demonstrate equivalent competence and experience in Environmental Science, Environmental Management, or other applicable disciplines. IEMA Membership is required. Full UK driver's licence and flexibility to travel.

Qualifications
Degree level education or equivalent competence in relevant environmental disciplines. IEMA Membership.