Environmental Discipline Lead

• Lead the environmental technical team across the programme
• Ensure that designs and technical deliverables are provided on time and in collaboration with the wider team, including engineering disciplines
• Be responsible for the programme’s EMR compliance and variation of environmental consents associated with the permanent design and management of environmental impacts of design changes as the project matures
• Ensure the environmental elements of the contractual requirements for handover have required information in place, ensuring the evidence is acceptable
• Work with planners and the engineering teams to ensure that environmental deliverable timescales are built into the delivery and handover schedules and risk is understood
• Lead team in effectively managing relevant commercial and contractual communications (TQs, EWs, EIs, CEs etc.) associated with area of responsibility with suppliers and client
• Ensure that the schedule for reporting is adhered to whilst ensuring environmental deliverables demonstrate compliance with applicable legislation, industry best practice and HS2 technical requirements
• Assist with the implementation of BS EN ISO14001 certification and audit against the standard and internal procedures
• Work in collaboration with the wider environmental delivery team, client, designers, community, stakeholder and public relations managers to ensure the programme is achieved
• Lead by example and promote good practice relating to environmental management & sustainability, sharing best practice and learning

• Degree-level qualification in engineering/environment or other relevant field with extensive experience in a technical/design environmental field
• Extensive knowledge across a broad range of environmental areas including ecology, landscaping, hydrogeology, EMR compliance and consenting with statutory bodies
• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience of influencing and negotiating with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders and the ability to extract key points and communicate this to others
• Ability to lead and manage a team with competing priorities with a focus on what is ‘best for project’
• Management of commercial/contractual aspects of projects with suppliers and client

Chartered (e.g. CEnv MCIEEM) professional qualification

Competitive salary & benefits