Environmental Advisor

**About The Role**:
**Job Opportunity: Environmental Advisor - Building Division**
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**Company: Graham Construction**
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**Location: Hillsborough, Northern Ireland**

This is an exciting opportunity to join a multidisciplinary environmental team, focused on evolving and executing our environmental sustainability strategy.

Our guiding principle is “Delivering lasting impact” and that’s exactly what this role is all about. You’ll be given the scope and opportunity to guide projects toward best practice to achieve the objectives of the GRAHAM environmental sustainability strategy and goals.

Reporting to the Environmental Manager, this position will focus on working across the Building North division (in NI) to help build, collect and verify environmental data and to drive progress via internal and external communications.

**The Environmental Advisor shall**:

- Review project environmental risks and opportunities
- Prepare Construction Environmental Management Plans and other management plans as required.
- Advise management & staff on environmental matters.
- Undertake audit planning in line with agreed audit frequencies.
- Conduct site environmental compliance audits.
- Investigate environmental incidents.
- Review subcontract documentation as it relates to environmental controls.
- Summarise and communicate legislation updates.
- Collect environmental data for monitoring, analysis, and reporting.
- Assist in the evaluation of site and regional performance relating to carbon, energy, waste, water, biodiversity, and other parameters as required.
- Measure performance against targets and objectives and contribute toward strategies for ensuring that targets and objectives are met.
- Compile case studies for sharing of best practice environmental measures.
- Prepare and deliver Environmental training and briefings.
- Prepare information for regular communication in the form of advice notes, intranet articles and reports.
- Undertake benchmarking exercises and co-ordinate and assemble awards submissions.
- Prepare responses for PQQs / Bids / Tenders as required.
- Audit and advise on improvements to the EMS.
- Liaise with external auditors with regards to ongoing certification.
- This job description is intended to give the post holder an appreciation of the role envisaged for the Environmental Advisor and the range of duties to be undertaken. It does not attempt to detail every activity. Specific tasks and objectives will be agreed with the post holder at regular intervals._

**Person Specification**

**Technical Competencies**

**Essential**
- Degree qualified
- Minimum associate level professional membership with IEMA or equivalent body
- Excellent understanding of the environmental/ sustainability agenda
- Experience of Environmental data collection and managing KPIs
- Good working knowledge of relevant Environmental legislation
- Experience of Environmental Auditing
- Demonstrate strong communication skills
- Awareness of the relevant management standards
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft packages such as Outlook, Word and Excel.
- Full driving licence
- Experience in construction or a construction related discipline

**Desirable**
- Formal Internal Auditor course
- Formal Lead Auditor course
- Experience gained from working on or with site teams

**Behavioural Competencies**

**Essential**

Team Player: Always willing to be involved in other activities to achieve company objectives. Works collaboratively and can motivate others to gain resolution of issues. Demonstrates honestly, loyalty and commitment.

Effective Communication skills: Able to adapt communication to audience and create detailed written documents and reports. Able to maintain and manage communication links with a variety of Personalities. Presents a professional image.

Initiative: is able to work alone to get results in an effective way. Understands and seeks to minimise waste in resources and processes. Adopts and motivates others to adopt new ways of working.

Influencing: Identifies and builds relationships to help in achieving strategic business objectives.
- Our Commitment_
- We are proud to say that we are a committed Equal Opportunities Employer and we aim to be the first choice for people from all backgrounds. We seek to promote respect for the individual and equality of opportunities. We believe that everyone should be treated solely on the basis of personal merit and contribution throughout their GRAHAM career journey and not on the value of artificial barriers, prejudices, or preferences._
- A basic disclosure may be requested if security clearance is required by 3rd party clients and a criminal record will not necessarily be a bar to obtaining a position. Our Access NI/Vetting and Barring Scheme Policy and Policy on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders is available upon request._
- GRAHAM reserves the right to carry out checks to ensure the validity of an applicant’s experience and/or qualifications and we expect