Environment Manager

• Lead the implementation, maintenance, and continual improvement of the Environmental Management System (EMS), ensuring alignment with BS EN ISO 14001:2015 requirements
• Develop, review, and update environmental procedures, management plans, standards, and guidance documents to ensure compliance with legal, client, and organisational requirements
• Establish robust environmental governance processes, monitoring compliance and driving continual improvement across all project activities
• Lead environmental audits, inspections, and compliance assessments, ensuring findings are effectively managed through corrective and preventive actions
• Provide expert advice and guidance on environmental legislation, regulatory obligations, permits, licences, and emerging environmental requirements
• Monitor environmental performance, analyse trends and key performance indicators, and prepare reports for senior management and client stakeholders
• Lead environmental incident investigations, root cause analysis, and lessons learned processes to prevent recurrence and improve performance
• Manage regulatory engagement and support interactions with environmental authorities, clients, and other external stakeholders
• Oversee the implementation of environmental risk assessments and ensure environmental risks and opportunities are effectively identified and managed
• Provide leadership, coaching, and technical support to environmental teams, promoting consistency and best practice across projects
• Drive environmental awareness, competence, and culture through the development and delivery of training programmes and engagement initiatives
• Coordinate specialist environmental disciplines including ecology, waste, water, air quality, noise and vibration, and contaminated land, ensuring effective integration into project delivery
• Support business assurance activities, including management reviews, external audits, certification audits, and compliance reporting

• Extensive experience managing Environmental Management Systems within construction, infrastructure, engineering, industrial, or regulated environments
• Strong knowledge of UK environmental legislation, permitting regimes, and environmental compliance requirements
• Demonstrable experience maintaining and improving ISO 14001-certified management systems
• Experience planning and leading environmental audits, inspections, and assurance programmes
• Strong understanding of environmental risk management, compliance frameworks, and performance reporting
• Proven ability to develop environmental procedures, standards, and governance processes that drive operational excellence
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with experience working across multidisciplinary teams and senior leadership groups
• Strong analytical, organisational, and problem-solving abilities with a continuous improvement mindset
• Degree qualified (or equivalent) in Environmental Management, Environmental Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
• Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) and/or membership of a relevant professional body such as IEMA, CIWEM, CIEEM, ISEP, or ICE

Lead Auditor qualification (ISO 14001)