Environmental Advisor

We’re looking for anEnvironmental Advisor to join the Eastern England and Midlands region.

Location:Flexible within Eastern England and Midlands

Business area: Kier Construction,

Contract:Permanent, full-time

Responsibilities

You will be part of a network of environmental professionals providing specialist environmental and sustainability advice and support with a specific focus on a large scale and complex projects. We need your skills to enable the development process. We want to ensure that environmental risks are identified early, and solutions integrated seamlessly into the project design and its construction. We also want to ensure that our customers benefit fully by deploying long-term sustainable solutions, considering development lifecycle, occupancy and climate resilience within our award-winning projects.

Within the role, you will support East and Midlands BU in delivering Kier’s Sustainability Framework and maintaining environmental compliance. The Framework is divided into the following elements: pollution prevention, responsible sourcing, carbon impact, avoidable waste and protection of biodiversity, all of which have objectives and targets which require ongoing focus / monitoring to ensure each is satisfied or exceeded. Project information will feed into this process to provide robust verifiable evidence that Kier are on target to meet each target. This information will also be used to support our pre-construction team with bids and identify applied best practice.

Your day to day will include:

• Identifying environmental risks for the project design and construction
• Provide environmental & sustainability advice
• Liaise with clients, contractors and subcontractors to ensure long term sustainability solutions

Who are we looking for?

• Ideally you will have experience from a similar role within the construction industry
• Preferably a degree in an environmental or scientific discipline.
• Preferably be Graduate or Associate IEMA or hold an equivalent level of membership with a relevant professional body.
• Preferably knowledge of construction sustainability schemes such as BREEAM / CEEQUAL /LEED /WELL recommended
• Have experience setting, measuring, monitoring and communicating environmental KPIs.
• Have experience developing documents, procedures and forms that are consistent with the requirements of ISO 14001.
• Internal ISO 14001 auditor experience would be advantageous.

We’re all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don’t tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk to discuss and arrange these.

Benefits at Kier

We’re proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:

• New and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
• 26 Days annual leave
• Green car scheme
• Matched pension up to 7.5%

And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website: www.kier.co.uk/careers/rewards-benefits

Who is Kier?

We’re made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK. Take a look at our sustainability objectives: https://www.kier.co.uk/sustainability/

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We’re proud of the steps we’ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier’s diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

You can see more about our D&I action plan here: https://www.kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf