Job Description

Environmental and Sustainability Advisor in Norfolk.
We're looking for an Environmental and Sustainability Advisor to join our Transportation team based in Norfolk. In this role, you'll work primarily on our Norfolk Highways contract, supporting the delivery of environmental compliance and driving our sustainability commitments.
Can you imagine a world without transportation links via land, sea or air? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey-come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a real difference, helping to keep people, goods, and equipment moving.
Location: Norfolk - travel to site required, with some remote working available
Hours: Permanent, Full-time 37.5 hours per week - flexibility available, just let us know when we speak
Salary: 30,000 - 35,000 per year + 5k annual car allowance + benefits
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
What will you be responsible for?
As an Environmental and Sustainability Advisor, you'll provide expert guidance to ensure legal, client, and company requirements are met, achieving all environmental compliance obligations, objectives, and targets.
Your day to day will include:

• Supporting the rollout and implementation of our One Planet Approach sustainability action plan

• Ensuring project compliance with the Kier Group Integrated Management System and ISO 14001:2015

• Carrying out environmental assessments of Kier designed schemes to identify compliance requirements, and drive improvements, and then carry out site inspections and audits to ensure recommendations have been implemented on site.

• Collaborating with operational and commercial teams to collect and report environmental data (e.g., carbon, waste, materials, water) for client and internal reporting

• Raising awareness of key environmental issues, identifying training needs, and delivering environmental training

What are we looking for?
This role of Environmental and Sustainability Advisor is great if you have:

• A degree in a relevant subject (or equivalent) and professional membership of ISEP or similar

• Experience in environmental management, ideally within a construction environment with proven ability to assess environmental impacts, identify risks, and advise on mitigation measures

• Strong knowledge and practical experience of maintaining, implementing, and improving EMSs certified to BS EN ISO 14001

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
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 initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.
As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier
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