Job Description
Environmental Advisor - Environment
Warrington
What you will be doing:
An opportunity has arisen for an Environmental Advisor to join the team at Galliford Try.
As Environmental Advisor, you will support the Framework Head of HS&E on all environmental aspects. You will support and implement the HS&E strategy and systems to ensure that the delivery of our operations meets exemplary environmental standards. This role supports improvement and consistency in performance, ensuring compliance with management systems, and implementing continual improvement initiatives.
1. Foster and support an inclusive, open, transparent, and collaborative environment that supports our HS&E culture, maturity, and behaviours to deliver HS&E excellence.
2. Support the implementation of our HS&E strategy to drive continual improvement through the business addressing short-, medium-, and long-term growth and learning.
3. Promote a positive HS&S culture which is consistent with Galliford Try's Challenging Beliefs and Affecting Behaviours programme and business leadership ambitions.
4. Represent and promote the HS&E function in internal and external meetings, workshops, management reviews and forums - communicating best practice standards and initiatives.
5. Implement our environmental management system, taking account of client requirements, to align with our overall strategy and driving performance through our processes and standards.
6. Engage with internal and external key stakeholders, including client, supply chain partners, regulatory authorities, industry bodies, and colleagues, through the project lifecycle.
7. Provide environmental input to operational teams from the planning stage through to completion, through technical and specialist guidance and advice to support proactive planning and implementation of our standards.
8. Utilise environmental performance KPIs to review performance and drive continual improvement.
9. Contribute to continual improvement to unlock gains in environmental performance and mitigate risk to GT that could occur through environmental related issues.
10. Proactively collaborate with our teams on all HS&E matters which may affect our projects. Attend meetings as required.
11. Escalate and report any environmental concerns to the Framework HS&E Manager and to the Operations Team.
About You:
1. Aware of individual environmental responsibilities and adheres to company environmental policy and procedures.
2. Able to demonstrate alignment and work in line with the Galliford Try values - Excellence, Passion, Integrity and Collaboration.
3. A responsible team member with an open, strategic, and analytic mind, who is committed to productivity, compliance, and continual improvement.
4. Good communicator, written and verbal; ability to engage effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
5. Highly collaborative and outstanding relationship building capacity, with strong communication, negotiating, engaging, and influencing skills - fostering a one-team approach across a complex organisation.
6. Thrives in complex, dynamic, working environments and relationships.
7. Track record in applying restless curiosity to create positive outcomes in similar environments.
8. Able to evidence a well-structured, systematic approach to identify and analyse problems, understand risks, and implement appropriate solutions.
9. Ideally experienced in either infrastructure, water, or similar regulated markets.
10. Proven in environmental management, systems, risks, and legal frameworks.
11. Experienced in delivering environmental role in a project lifecycle environment (prepare, design and construction).
12. Knowledge of data analytics and reporting systems.
13. Fully conversant with the Microsoft suite of packages.
14. Relevant HS&E experience in a similar industry.
15. Holds a NEBOSH Construction or General Certificate or is working towards one.
16. Full driving licence and willingness to travel across projects / contracts in region.
What We Can Offer in Return:
With an impressive order book of over £3.2 billion we are one of the industry's leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment.
We are committed to maintaining the physical and mental wellbeing of all our people, through our 'Be Well' programme which offers discounts on certain products, advice and support for a range of issues.
We invest in high-quality training for employees of all levels, from our leadership development framework to our apprenticeship programmes. Through our Career Paths initiative, individuals receive tailored training and support to fulfil their potential.
Our industry is all about creating talented teams that excel in their areas of expertise. As an employer, we know you are most motivated to give your best when you feel valued and engaged.
Our benefits:
1. Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays.
2. A wide range of corporate discounts.
3. Cycle to Work schemes.
4. Comprehensive pension plan.
5. Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme.
6. Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees and our employee assistance programme also provides free 24/7 support to those who need it.
7. Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role.
About us:
Named Contractor of the Year by the Water Industry Awards, Galliford Try is one of the UK's leading construction businesses with a vision to continuously be a people-orientated, progressive business, driven by our values to deliver lasting change for our stakeholders and the communities we work in.
Our purpose is to improve people's lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for our people to learn, grow and progress, working with our supply chain to promote the very best working practice and caring for the environment in which we work.
For more information on this role or to enquire about other positions available within our Environment business please contact James Heathcote on james.heathcote@gallifordtry.co.uk.
Additional Information:
Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work flexibly and this will be discussed in more detail as part of the recruitment process.
We encourage you and would be grateful if you could confirm any requirements we can reasonably fulfil to make this application a positive experience for you.
Don't meet every requirement of the role? At Galliford Try, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement of the role, we encourage you to apply anyway.
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