Environmental Advisor

Job description

Siemens Mobility inspires the world to move forward more intelligently and sustainably. We’re engineering AI driven, IoT empowered transportation, giving people more freedom and the planet a greener future. And, we’re inspiring the world of work to be more progressive – leading by example in how we support our colleagues in innovating, learning and living.

This role can be based anywhere in the UK with some need to travel to key locations.

We are searching for a forward-thinking Environmental Advisor  to lead our environmental governance, assurance and improvements across the whole Rail Infrastructure business. In this role you will support the delivery of environment and environmental sustainability requirements including the development and implementation of related corporate workstreams where necessary. Your role could see you getting involved in areas such as: ecology, contaminated land, waste, water, pollution prevention, and across key Sustainability focuses such as sustainable procurement, community engagement, diversity, and carbon.

This is your role, what part will you play?

·  Facilitate the development of project specific environment and environmental sustainability documentation in line with business needs, legislation, and specific client requirements. For example; Environment Management Plans (EMP/ESMPs), Environment and Social Risk Assessments (ESRAs) and Site Waste Management Plans (SWMPs).
·  Ensure project teams are aware of and have appropriately programmed for management of environment and social issues especially those related to permits, licences, and consents.
·  Identify and assist in the implementation of project-level environmental and environmental sustainability opportunities
·  Actively participate in relevant business/project meetings.
·  Manage and undertake environmental inspections and audits of projects, offices, sites and depots
·  Be the lead technical support for any environmental incident investigations
·  Develop and deliver (or directly assist in) environmental and relevant sustainability training to staff and contractors
·  Be aware of and communicate emerging environmental and relevant sustainability legislation and best practices, working in conjunction with regional/corporate/industry counterparts
·  Work in collaboration with all project relevant team members, client counterpart and other contractors

What qualifications and experience will you need?

·  Degree or diploma in environmental, social or sustainability field
·  Membership of a relevant professional organisation (eg: IEMA, CIWEM, IES, Social Value UK)
·  Proven experience in environment and/or social sustainability
·  Current (or clear timeline to achieving) Practitioner Membership of IEMA (or equivalent)
·  Detailed knowledge of one or more specific environment or social topics
·  Willingness to learn and apply knowledge on less familiar environment and social topics
·  Ability to prepare high quality written documentation
·  Ability to effectively engage with both office and site based personnel
·  Willingness to provide guidance and constructive feedback to colleagues on environmental and social management issues
·  Experience in the development and/or delivery of environment and social briefing materials
·  Experience within the construction and/or rail industry preferable but not essential
·  Actively engaged in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities
About us

We’re Siemens. A collection of over 377,000 great minds who are all making the future and you could be one of them! We have offices across the UK, full of talented individual’s helping us to challenge the today and work towards a brighter tomorrow.

Does creating the ways a new world moves sound like it requires your skills? How about ensuring we do it with net-zero emissions by 2050? Discover a engineering career combining innovation, sustainability and a rare opportunity to shape society at scale.

We are looking forward to receiving your online application. Please ensure you complete all areas of the application form to the best of your ability to help us review your suitability for the role. We will be in contact as soon as possible with an update on your application.

What else do you need to know?

Our compensation package includes a competitive salary, holiday allowance and pension. We celebrate the fact that our employees are individuals and have different wants and needs. With this in mind, we have a flexible benefits scheme where you can tailor your benefits package to suit you.

If we all thought the same, we would never think of anything new! That’s why we recruit great minds from all walks of life. We recognise that building a diverse workforce is essential to the success of our business, therefore we encourage applications from a diverse talent pool. We are proud to announce that we have partnered with  VERCIDA , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site where all our vacancies are in an accessible format. We welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements with our applicants to encourage agile working and innovation.

Organization: Siemens Mobility

Company: Siemens Mobility Limited

Experience Level: not defined

Full / Part time: Full-time