Senior Environmental Advisor

We are recruiting for a **Senior Environmental Advisor** to join our SHE teams working on our Severn Trent and Thames Water Frameworks.

**About the Role**
To support the Contract Environmental Solutions function and enable our operational teams to implement the SHE Management System

**Key Responsibilities**
Support and Influence the contract leadership team, clients, and other stakeholders in compliance with the SHE Management System and contract environmental performance
Support and where required deliver training, to allow the contract team to successfully implement the SHE Management System
Coach and support the contract operational teams and supply chain contractors in the delivery of the contract environmental requirements
Actively support the delivery of the annual contract and group SHE objectives
Actively engage with the contract environmental assurance programme to ensure compliance with company and statutory requirements
Actively support the investigation of all unplanned events and close out of assurance findings, ensuring lessons are shared in accordance with the SHE Management System
Support the timely reporting, analysis, and use of environmental data
Build and maintain relationships with all stakeholders, whilst providing an independent and objective view of SHE Performance on the contract

**About You**
Environmental degree or equivalent
Significant environmental experience in a relevant industry
PIEMA or equivalent (working towards MIEMA / CEnv)
Good influencer / able to challenge the status quo
Able to adapt communication style to suit audience
Uses different methodologies to analyse data
Able to plan and prioritise work

**About Costain**

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.

To find out more about our Inclusion strategy, please visit our ED&I page:
**Right to Work & Security Checks**

Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you. For all roles, we'll carry out a criminal record check and we’ll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.

For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance). To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.

**Closing date**

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
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