At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide environmental advice and assurance on exciting projects while ensuring compliance.
- Company: Join a leading firm focused on sustainability and environmental impact.
- Benefits: Competitive hourly rate, hybrid work model, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic role with hands-on responsibilities and strong site presence.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in environmental management and compliance across diverse projects.
- Qualifications: Degree in environmental discipline and experience in waste management or similar fields.
The predicted salary is between 55 - 55 £ per hour.
Our client is seeking an Environmental Advisor to join their Projects team on an 18-month contract. The role supports a portfolio of waste management, decommissioning, remediation, demolition and infrastructure projects, ensuring environmental compliance while providing practical support to operational teams on site. This is a hands-on role requiring someone who is equally comfortable carrying out field-based environmental assurance activities as they are completing office-based documentation and project support.
The Role
- Provide environmental advice and assurance across live projects, working closely with operational teams to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, permit conditions and company management systems.
- Act as the environmental subject matter expert, supporting project delivery through audits, inspections, risk assessments and stakeholder engagement while promoting continual environmental improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Environmental Compliance
- Provide competent environmental advice to project and operational teams.
- Ensure compliance with environmental legislation, permits and company management systems.
- Support compliance with regulatory requirements and client standards.
- Environmental Assurance
- Conduct environmental inspections, audits and compliance assessments.
- Review environmental risk assessments and method statements.
- Investigate environmental incidents, near misses and non-conformances.
- Maintain a strong site presence, positively challenging behaviours where required.
- Project Support
- Participate in project planning and design reviews.
- Support environmental assessments and permit applications.
- Provide environmental input into contractor selection, management and performance.
- Attend project meetings and environmental forums.
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Liaise with regulators, contractors and internal stakeholders.
- Support regulatory inspections and environmental audits.
- Deliver environmental coaching, awareness and communication across project teams.
Candidate Requirements
- Essential
- Environmental qualification (degree or equivalent environmental discipline).
- Experience working within waste management, remediation, infrastructure, demolition or similar industrial projects.
- Strong knowledge of UK environmental legislation and compliance.
- Confident carrying out environmental audits and site inspections.
- Comfortable working in a highly visible, site-based role with operational teams.
- Strong communication skills with the confidence to challenge where necessary.
- Desirable
- Chartered Environmental professional, or actively working towards Chartership.
- NEBOSH Health.
Environmental Advisor in Wrexham employer: Morson Edge
Join a forward-thinking engineering firm in Manchester, where as a Senior Electrical Designer, you will thrive in a collaborative and innovative work culture. With a strong focus on employee growth, you will have the opportunity to mentor junior designers while working on significant projects across Water and Nuclear sectors, all within a hybrid working model that promotes work-life balance. Enjoy competitive salary packages and the chance to contribute to impactful engineering solutions in a supportive environment.
