Environment & Sustainability Manager in Ipswich

Are you looking for a career which is rewarding, at the cutting edge of project development and where you can really make a difference? Come and join our expanding Sizewell C (SZC) team and work on one of the most exciting and largest megaprojects in the UK, whilst being at the forefront of the UK's climate change agenda and energy policy. Following on from the success of Hinkley Point C (HPC), the SZC Project is a nuclear new build project in Suffolk, which has obtained planning approval and Government financing support. The project has started construction and is now seeking private investment. When completed, it will provide dependable electricity to 6 million homes for 60 years, which along with renewables, will support Britain to achieve Net Zero by 2050.

Job Purpose / Overview

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.

Principal Accountabilities

• 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 Tier One contractors to deliver best practice.
• Work with the Client Team on engagement with the 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 (KPI's), 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 that 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.

Dimensions

• 4 Direct reports (team of 10) with responsibility for the team's performance.
• Required to influence the performance of environment professionals within the project supply chain.
• Implementation of role accountabilities through pre-construction, construction delivery and commissioning.
• Supporting numerous multi-disciplinary construction and commissioning delivery teams, driving performance across several Tier 1 contract teams with a workforce of circa 8000 at peak.
• Managing a budget for environmental monitoring on the SZC.
• Accountable to the Head of Site Compliance.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience

Knowledge & Skills

• 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 project, ensuring manufactured as specified and built as designed.
• General professional qualities such as accuracy, attention to detail, tenacity, 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 excellent communication/interpersonal skills notably with various levels of the organisation and externally.
• Discretion - Confidentiality when dealing with sensitive information.

Qualifications & Experience

• Qualified to degree level in an Environmental related discipline.
• Experience in a technical or engineering discipline.
• Demonstrated leadership experience is essential.
• Extensive experience both client and principal contractor managing environmental issues on a large infrastructure/engineering project (or similar) extensive on-site experience, knowledge of construction and commissioning activities, approaches, standards and expectations.
• Experience of developing and leading strong relationships with the regulators and other public bodies, essential experience of delivery of regulatory commitments would be an advantage.
• Experience in a highly regulated industry would be an advantage.
• Experience in managing the implementation of regulatory commitments.
• Experience of driving the implementation and embedding of management arrangements.