Environmental & Sustainability Advisor

**About us**:
At National Grid, we light up the world by harnessing the unique strengths of our people. Join us as a **Environmental & Sustainability Advisor** to be part of a team that's driving forward the energy transition, creating a brighter, more sustainable future for all. Unleash your superpower and bring energy to life.

**National Grid is hiring an **Environmental & Sustainability Advisor** **for our Customer Connections department based in our North **(North Wales, North West, North East, South Yorkshire and Humber) Region.**

**About the role**:
As an Environmental & Sustainability Advisor you will be supporting the Regional Safety & Quality Manager in implementing group wide Environmental and Sustainability policies and strategies.

You will be the first point of contact and trusted advocate for environmental management across the Customer Connections team and help support behavioural change programmes to ensure we are demonstrating good SHE behaviours.

**What you'll do**:

- Provide a single point of contact for advice and expertise on E&S documentation & process.
- Conduct regular site visits & conduct Environmental walks, work with the site teams to identify & resolve issues.
- Working with National Grid Electricity (NGET) SHEC team to drive NG objectives and initiatives into Customer Connections projects.
- Develop appropriate communications to ensure the business is informed of changes to environmental legislation or procedures.
- Support the development of strategies that reduce our environmental impact.
- Promoting a positive safety culture through visible proactive, consistent and influential behaviours
- Co-operate with others to ensure a coordinated approach to promote a clear understanding of each party’s duties, roles and responsibilities for Safety and Wellbeing
- Report all incident, near misses, good catches. Advising on action as necessary to control hazard as appropriate.
- Prepare monthly performance reports on environmental & sustainability performance and supply management information as appropriate for presentation at management meetings
- Provide specific support to Customer Connections:

- Help managers within Customer Connections deliver the environmental plan and support the business to assume full responsibility for its delivery.
- Influence our contractors to comply, as a minimum, to our strategy, policy and procedures and encourage best environmental practice on all our project sites.
- Support environmental incident investigations to establish root causes, providing expert advice, support and guidance on legal framework and communicate learning points.

**What you'll need**:

- Good knowledge of environmental legislation, environmental management systems and best practice in relation to environment management
- Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the ability and confidence to communicate and build relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation
- Passion for environmental sustainability, with high levels of enthusiasm and drive to achieve results
- Experience of working with regulatory agencies and external stakeholders preferable
- Committed to stakeholder satisfaction and performance improvement
- Resilient, with the confidence and courage to challenge behaviours and issues
- Suitable technical/professional qualification such as Degree, ONC, Diploma or equivalent

**What you'll get**:

- Salary between £51,000 to £61,000 dependent on experience
- Company Vehicle + Paid Travel
- Excellent work/life balance and company culture
- 26 days annual leave plus 8 statutory days
- The option to buy additional or sell holiday
- Generous contributory pension scheme - we will double-match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. Overall 18%
- Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave - relevant to your role
- Access to flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few
- Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days)
- Access to apps which support health, fitness and wellbeing

**More information**:
**National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET)** is at the heart of energy in the UK. The electricity we provide gets the nation to work, powers schools and brings energy to life. Our energy network connects the nation, so it’s essential that it’s continually evolving, advancing and improving.

In NGET we are passionate about both operating our network safely and providing highly reliable quality of supply for our customers. At the heart of achieving these outcomes is the effective control and operation of our network.

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