Senior Environmental Advisor

4 months ago


Motherwell, United Kingdom Burns & McDonnell Full time

**Description**

Chart your own course and change the world — with the support of people whose interests are aligned with yours. At Burns & McDonnell, opportunity is waiting. We’re looking for people with big ideas and an entrepreneurial mindset. It’s those kinds of people who’ve helped us grow from a small consulting business back in 1898 to a global leader in engineering, architecture and construction solutions. Today, we’re a thriving company with more than 10,000 professionals working in 55 offices worldwide and recognised as a Global Leader within our fields:

- Provide strategic, corporate, operational and project level advice and support to ensure compliance with environmental legislation and conformance to company environmental and sustainability policies, processes, standards and procedures.
- Leadership and management teams, project delivery teams, design and engineering teams, corporate team in the USA.
- Clients, contractors and supply chain, subconsultants, statutory bodies, professional bodies, other interested parties.
- Conduct business development activities to support the growth of Burns & McDonnel Environmental Services
- Develop relationships for a potential client base for Environmental Services.
- Ensure continued compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements, company standards and others as applicable.
- Provide a source of knowledge, advice and support to the business on all matters of environment and sustainability.
- Work with the Quality & Compliance Manager and SHES Manager to develop, review and ensure implementation of the Environmental Management System including ISO 14001 certification.
- Advise and support with obtaining environmental licences, permits and consents and monitor compliance on construction projects.
- Collaborate with our subcontractors and supply chain to deliver best value solutions whilst aligning with our corporate Environmental and Sustainability strategy, goals and objectives.
- Co-ordinate with the other environmental specialists, sub-contractors and sub-consultants, in fields of hazardous material management and remediation, ecology, archaeology, hydrology, environmental planning and consents, traffic, etc.
- Establish and maintain relationships with external stakeholders such as local authorities, EA, SEPA, Natural England, etc.
- Undertake environmental advisory visits and assurance activity.
- Provide guidance on environmental studies/assessments and Risk Assessments and Method Statements to mitigate risks and prevent harm to the environment.
- Performance reporting, monitoring, collation and analysis of data, providing recommendations for future actions and measures. Investigate Environmental incidents, near misses and other incidents.
- Prepare and deliver communications, including bulletins, alerts, toolbox talks, briefings and training.
- Promote good and best practices and techniques, innovations and lessons learnt across the business and more widely.
- Lead by example, influencing and inspiring our managers, teams, and supply chain to strive for excellence in environmental management and sustainability.
- Maintain personal development keeping up to date with knowledge and competency levels in relation to environmental management and sustainability.
- Coach and mentor others working at Burns and McDonnell on environmental management and sustainability.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Complies with all policies and standards.

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor Degree or equivalent in a related discipline of environmental engineering, geology, and natural sciences and 7 years in an environmental position in a high compliance construction industry, preferably with 2 years experience of an environmental position in a power T & D related industry. Required
- Project experience or working knowledge of the SuRe standard for sustainable and resilient infrastructure (from GIB: Global Infrastructure Basel), PEER (power system performance and electricity infrastructure), RELi (project resilience, including hazard mitigation and adaptation).
- Working knowledge of or familiarity with BREEAM, LEED, Green Globes.
- Required to be competent in understanding, assessing and advising on matters concerning noise and noise control in line with legislation and site-specific planning controls.
- Required to be competent in understanding, assessing and advising on matters concerning contaminated land, remediation and disposal in line with legislation and site-specific planning controls.
- Required to be competent in understanding, assessing and advising on matters concerning air quality in line with legislation and site-specific planning controls.
- Required to be competent in understanding, assessing and advising on matters concerning waste management in line with legislation and site-specific planning controls.
- Experience of preparing briefing materials and training.
- Experience of EMS and developing policies and procedures.
- Experience of



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