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Morson Talent

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Job Description:

To provide environmental and sustainability leadership, ensuring that the project’s construction site and associated developments maintain full compliance with all Environmental Permits, Licences, and relevant regulatory commitments. The postholder will drive best practice, support a strong environmental culture, and ensure consistent and effective environmental management across a large, complex infrastructure programme.

Job Responsibility:

Provide environmental and sustainability leadership, ensuring the project’s construction site maintains full compliance with all Environmental Permits, Licences, and regulatory commitments
Drive best practice and support a strong environmental culture
Provide clear, consistent leadership to direct reports and Tier 1 suppliers
Establish, maintain, and oversee compliance arrangements aligned with all environmental commitments
Manage, coordinate, and monitor environmental and sustainability activities across site operations
Champion world-class environmental behaviours across site teams and the wider supply chain
Ensure significant environmental aspects are identified, controlled, and effectively mitigated
Drive environmental and sustainability performance across the project
Work with the client team to support engagement with environmental regulators
Provide a highly professional, client-focused service across all environmental and regulatory interfaces
Maintain compliance with ISO 14001:2015
Maintain oversight of the programme of environmental inspections, surveillance, and performance monitoring
Develop, implement, and report on environmental performance indicators (KPIs)
Lead or support event and incident investigations
Review and optimise environmental department resources, processes, and activities
Ensure team members are assessed, appraised, trained, and developed
Manage environmental functions to agreed quality standards
Build strong working relationships with internal teams, contractors, the internal regulator, and external regulatory bodies
Promote construction experience feedback and embed learning

Requirements:

Degree-level qualification in an environmental or related discipline
Extensive experience leading Environmental & Sustainability teams on large, complex, and highly regulated construction projects
Broad construction field knowledge, ideally covering the full lifecycle-from civils through mechanical, electrical, installation, and commissioning
Detailed understanding of compliance requirements related to environmental permits, licences, and consents
Strong understanding of sustainability expectations, opportunities, and constraints on major infrastructure projects
Demonstrable leadership experience is essential
Extensive experience managing environmental issues on major infrastructure or engineering projects, working both from a client and principal contractor perspective
Proven stakeholder management, including building strong relationships with regulators and other public bodies

Nice to have:

Background in a technical or engineering discipline is advantageous
Experience driving sustainability initiatives within a large project environment
Experience within a highly regulated industry is desirable

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Job Posted:
December 10, 2025

Work Type:

On-site work

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