Environmental Advisor - Winchester, United Kingdom - Kier Group

Kier Group

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Winchester, United Kingdom

5 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We're looking for an Environmental Advisor to join our Highways team based in Winchester.

Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a fantastic matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more.

Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Nor can we Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Highways and make a difference.

Connecting roads, connecting people.

Location:
Winchester, remote/hybrid working available

Contract:
Permanent, Fulltime (part-time working available, just let us know)

Salary:
Up to £30k
+ 26 days of annual leave + Benefits

Responsibilities

As an Environmental Advisor, you'll be working with the Environmental Manager on all aspects on environmental management and sustainability across the South East region on its Maintenance & Response contracts.

You'll assist with ensuring colleagues are compliant with Kier processes and procedures, undertake environmental audits and deliver training when required.

Your day to day will include:

Assist with environmental assessment work, field surveys and mitigation design for legally protected sites, habitats or species
Assist with the collection of carbon data from subcontractors to form quarterly carbon report to the client
Liaison with all other teams to ensure environmental issues are taken into account during all aspects of work
Support and assist with meetings all Kier sustainability targets

Who are we looking for?
This role of Environmental Advisor is great for you if you have:

Relevant degree and related experience environmental management and ecology
Relevant experience in a Highways/Construction environment and a membership of IEMA or equivalent organisation
IT, numeracy and literacy skills and able to operate spreadsheet systems, input extract and present complex data to communicate with others

Benefits at Kier

We're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

Some of our favourites include:
- new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more

A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
Kier's Green Car Scheme

And so much more You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website:

Who is Kier?

We're made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK.

Take a look at our sustainability objectives:

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress.

We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more.

Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

You can see more about our D&I action plan here:

Closing date: 25 May 2023