Environment & Sustainability Manager in Suffolk

Venesky-Brown Recruitment are looking for an Environmental Sustainability Manager to join the team at Sizewell C. This contract role is site-based in Leiston, Suffolk with hybrid working (3-4 days/week on-site).

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.

Context: Sizewell C Ltd is constructing a nuclear power station at Sizewell C (SZC) in Suffolk, to provide low carbon electricity for over 7 million homes. As the SZC project moves through construction into installation and commissioning phases and ultimately to operation, Sizewell C is seeking an experienced environmental professional to lead a site-based team that ensures environmental compliance and drives environmental performance improvements on this exciting, nationally significant infrastructure project.

The Site Environment & Sustainability Team, led by the Environment & Sustainability (E&S) Manager delivers regulatory compliance on site and maintains oversight of contractors’ performance and engagement with construction and delivery teams. The E&S Manager’s position is a senior role at SZC and reports to the SZC Head of Site Compliance within the Site Construction Delivery Team.

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.
• Drive environmental and sustainability performance with the SZC project and operations teams as well Tier One contractors to deliver best practice.
• Maintain compliance with ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management System Standard.
• Develop and implement Site environmental performance measurements (KPI’s), review and reporting requirements to drive continuous environmental improvement.
• Undertake environmental investigations to establish performance improvements and learning.
• Manage the department’s activities to meet agreed quality standards, ensuring compliance with the SZC Project Quality Manual.
• Develop professional working relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders.

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.
• Managing a budget for environmental monitoring on the SZC.

Knowledge, Skills:

• Must have extensive skills leading E&S teams working on large complex highly regulated construction projects.
• 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.
• General professional qualities such as accuracy, attention to detail, tenacity, result-oriented, the ability to work well within a team.
• Strong assurance and challenge skills with excellent communication/interpersonal skills.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Qualified to degree level in an Environmental related discipline.
• Demonstrated leadership experience is essential.
• Extensive experience both client and principal contractor managing environmental issues on a large infrastructure/engineering project.
• Experience of developing and leading strong relationships with the regulators and other public bodies.

Operating Environment: Working within the constraints of the Development Consent Order and the various environmental frameworks, permits and consents, the post holder will build effective relationships with SZC Client Team representatives and service providers to ensure environmental and sustainability responsibilities and obligations are achieved.

Framework & Boundaries: The SZC project’s environmental performance and sustainability achievements are paramount to realising Sizewell C’s goal of zero harm. The E&S Manager will be responsible for ensuring construction environmental compliance, the implementation of the project's integrated management system reflecting SZC’s ISO14001 requirements.