Senior Environmental Advisor

Group SHE Department: The Group Safety, Health, and Environmental (SHE) Department is responsible for ensuring that Costain operates in a safe, healthy, and environmentally responsible manner through the implementation of the Group SHE Management System and Group SHE Plan. The Group SHE Management System provides a framework and standards for managing safety, health and environmental risks and opportunities and aims to prevent injury, ill health and provide a safe working environment and protect and enhance the natural environment in balance with socio-economic requirements throughout all our activities and operations. The department’s purpose is to protect employees, the community, and the environment while ensuring that Costain operates sustainably and complies with relevant legislation and regulations.

Project: To be defined by Hiring Manager. To support the Contract Environmental functions, provide, and support Environmental solutions and enable the Contract / Operational Teams to implement the Group SHE Management System. To build and maintain relationships with all stakeholders, whilst providing an independent and objective view of SHE Performance on the Contract.

Responsibilities

• Support and influence Contract Leadership Team, Clients, and other stakeholders in compliance with the Group SHE Management System and Contract Environmental Performance.
• Support and where required deliver training, to allow the contract team to successfully implement the Group SHE Management System.
• Coach and support the Contract Operational and Supply Chain Contractors in the delivery of the Contract Environmental requirements.
• Where required be actively involved in the ongoing assessment of the Contracts Supply Chain Contractors.
• Actively support the delivery of the annual Contract and Group SHE Objectives.
• Actively engage with the Contract Environmental Assurance programme to ensure compliance with company and statutory requirements.
• Actively support the investigation of all unplanned events and close out of assurance findings, ensuring lessons are shared in accordance with the SHE Management System.
• Support the timely reporting, analysis, and use of Environmental data to support and influence the Contract Leadership Team and, where required, support the development and implementation of data-based improvement plans.

Essential Experience

• Environmental related experience.

Desirable Experience

• Significant relevant Environmental experience in the relevant industry.

Qualifications

Essential

• Environmental Degree or equivalent PIEMA or equivalent (working towards MIEMA/ CEnv).

Desirable

• Over 5 years relevant Environmental experience in relevant industry MIEMA CEnv or equivalent.

About Costain

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future‑shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery.

Our culture and values underpin everything we do. Costain appreciates the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at the application phase. We do share individual feedback following an interview. A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that discloses they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high‑volume, seasonal and high‑peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non‑disabled people.