Environmental Sustainability Specialist - Warwick, United Kingdom - Pontoon

Pontoon

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Warwick, United Kingdom

5 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Environmental Sustainability Specialist

Warwick - Hybrid

£350PD Umbrella

6 Month Contract

Job Purpose:

To be a business lead who will drive, motivate, inspire and encourage managers and staff to deliver our RIIO targets relating to the natural environment.

This ranges from re writing and embedding policies, establishing external partnerships to meet internaltargets and supporting the business in a specialist role to carry out natural capital and bio diversity assessments.

The assessments will inform the mitigation plans to meet the regulatory requirements of net gain.

Key Accountability's:

Be a leader and trusted advocate for environmental sustainability across GT&M, providing expert environmental sustainability knowledge of the natural environment; its protection, mitigation plans and opportunities for enhancements.
Liaise with internal teams such as Construction and Land & Property to ensure that sustainability expertise is provided to contracts, the tendering process and internal natural environmental plans.
Update company. policies based on the natural environment and ensure they are embedded across the organisation.
Coach, motivate and inspire GT&M engineers to build confidence in their ability to challenge contractor operatives on their E&S performance.
Seek improvements to existing ways of working and develop solutions to deliver an increased environmental performance. Use outputs to inform and update company procedures.
Build skills, knowledge and capability across core business functions to deliver, in particular, but not exclusively, the natural environment element of the E&S strategy.
Operate within or supervise a virtual team to achieve business objectives, plans and targets to enhance performance, condition, records and compliance with statutory requirements.
Produce detailed reports, data and information to demonstrate high E&S performance and the value of the team to a range of audiences, both internal and external to the company.
Work collaboratively with external bodies and represent GT&M on working groups such as TNFD

Knowledge & Experience Required:

Demonstrate a drive to be part of a high performing team that builds an outstanding reputation for professionalism, objectivity, integrity and delivery of results.

Technical understanding of environmental legislation, GT&M Policy, procedure and best practice in relation to environmental sustainability and the GT&M businesses and organisation.

Demonstrate successful capability in:

Influencing and conflict management

Anticipates how people are likely to react and prepares appropriately
Persuasive without being aggressive; prepared to make tough decisions and see them through
Has appropriate skills to turn objectives into positive outcomes
Is strong at influencing senior people (both GT&M and with external organisations) and winning support for a case
Flexible, adaptable and proficient in managing conflicting priorities of self and others in a changing environment

Thinking, working style and output

Conveys complex information in plain language
Excellent report writing skills; ability to integrate information effectively, summarise with relevance and suitable impact
Has a manner, style and presence that makes a positive impression
Makes a business case not just presenting facts
Listens to and considers other views; states own views clearly and concisely; tackles disagreement constructively
Ability to encourage buy in and optimum performance through a proficient coaching style clear understanding when to use and when not to use

Passion, commitment and continuous improvement

Passion for embedding a E&S culture without compromising the company's ability to remain competitive
Motivates others through own example
Accepts responsibility for own work and decisions
Promotes the idea of continuous improvement
Personally committed to finding news of working in conjunction with others to achieve business goals
Positive energy and drive