Environmental Advisor
- Location: Cheshire, England
- Salary: £50k - 60k per year + benefits pacakge
- Category
- Sector: Building, Construction and Infrastructure
- Contract type Permanent
- Consultant: Chris Quinlan
Environmental Advisor - Warrington, Cheshire (hybrid/multi-site, covering projects across the Northern region) - £50k-£60k+benefits package - well-established tier one main contractor with an excellent reputation for quality.
Duties/responsibilities:-
Carrying out Environmental Inspections - ensuring that environmental issues and best practice are being complied with.
Accompany the site manager or supervisor and discuss with them any issues of concern.
Produce reports for site teams and senior management highlighting areas for action and positive elements of compliance.
Where necessary, stop works and escalate appropriate follow up action.
Monitor and ensure close out of actions raised.
Monitor systems of work and the procedures that the Company employs for the recording, monitoring, and assessing of Environmental and Sustainability Standards.
Discuss with site management forthcoming works and any environmental issues, method statements, risk assessments, procedures, etc involved.
Meet with supply chain partners to discuss environmental aspects of their works including RAMS reviews.
Incident Investigation
Investigate significant environmental incidents and near misses to understand root causes.
Produce investigation reports for significant incidents detailing circumstances, root causes and provide any recommendations that could prevent a re-occurrence.
Ensure relevant Environmental and Sustainability documentation is up to date including policies, aspects registers, notice boards, emergency arrangements and permits.
Review with project team Environmental Management Plan throughout the course of the project.
Ensure processes and procedures are in place to collate relevant environmental data for the site including use of resources and identify trends from inspection/audit reports.
Environmental and Sustainability Training
Identify environmental and sustainability training requirements for employees.
SHEQ Meetings
Attend relevant SHEQ Meetings with the Group Head of SHEQ, Construction Director, Contracts Managers and the SHEQ Department to discuss any areas for improvement
Qualifications/experience required:
HND/HNC/Degree level qualification
Construction experience
Member of IEMA
Background in compliance with ISO 14001 Management Systems