Job title: Environment Advisor

Our client are a global engineering, construction and project management company who deliver landmark projects that create long-term progress and economic growth are recruiting for an Environment Advisor to work on a long-term contract basis at their offices based in Birmingham. Their expertise includes Infrastructure, Mining & Metals, Nuclear, Security, Environmental, Oil, Gas & Chemicals in 160 countries on all seven continents. The company and culture are built on over a century of leadership and relentless adherence to values, the core of which are safety, quality, ethics and integrity.

JOB PURPOSE

Support the area environmental assessment work (including associated assessments) in accordance with organisational, sponsor and parliamentary requirements.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Support the Area Team's environmental assessment requirements and deliverables.

Provide advice to support the development of environmental design solutions and ensure that environmental sustainability issues.

Work collaboratively with other technical specialists including engineers, construction experts, architects, property advisors, environmental and sustainability specialists to achieve high quality integrated designs and develop appropriate and cost balanced mitigation strategies and solutions.

Work closely with the consultants appointed to undertake area environmental assessment (including transport and equalities impact assessment) and design in order to input on the environmental and sustainability aspects.

Support the review and appraisal of all area environmental deliverables produced by consultants to ensure compliance with the organisation's technical and sponsor requirements to enable them to be confidently defended before Select Committee.

Support area technical stakeholder engagement (working closely with the Central Environment Team and Stakeholder Team) via various different forums to obtain information to inform the development of the area (and, where necessary, route-wide) assessment and design and to ensure the stakeholder's environmental and sustainability requirements are understood and managed so as to minimise petition risk and to support the development of a world class railway.

Working closely with the Environment Manager, draft responses to general internal and external enquiries (including FOI, EIR and PQ requests) on area environmental (including EIA, TA and EqIA) matters to ensure timely, consistent, robust and assured responses.

Support the Area Senior Environment Manager and Environment Manager on internal and external reporting of environmental matters.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, EXPERIENCE

Bachelor degree (or equivalent) in a relevant environmental/ built environmental discipline.

Working towards membership of a relevant environmental/ built environmental organisation.

Experience of environmental assessment (EIA) on large scale projects.

Knowledge of environmental legislation and current best practice guidance.

Proven ability to work across multidisciplinary teams.

Strong numeracy, written and verbal communication skills and the aptitude to engage with a range of

stakeholders on sensitive environmental issues.

Strong IT skills and proven working ability to use Office based software, including Word, Excel, Power

Point, Outlook, coupled with an aptitude towards learning and utilising new software in the office

environment (training is provided in the use of the internal document management systems). A good

understanding of GIS, SharePoint and eB is also desirable.

Experience of preparing/ reviewing material for and attending public consultations.

Experience of working under tight deadlines.