Environmental & Sustainability Manager (Sizewell C)

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 20 April 2026
LOCATION
Sizewell C
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Construction
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SKILLS

Environmental Management Sustainability Strategy Stakeholder Management Risk Mitigation ISO14001 Team Leadership Auditing Communication Skills

FULL DESCRIPTION

Environmental & Sustainability Manager (Sizewell C)
Civil Works Alliance (CWA)
Sizewell C

Job Responsibilities

· Involvement in the implementation of the Environmental and Sustainability strategy for the project.

· Provide professional Environmental and Sustainability leadership and services.

· Advise and guide all levels within project team including the Delivery Leadership Team, Project Managers, Project Engineers, peers, operatives, office staff and subcontractors.

· Responsible for the management of sustainability and environmental risks and mitigation, consultation with clients, stakeholders and regulators (as required).

· Ensure that the Project teams are supported to meet their Environmental & Sustainability contractual, compliance and business requirements.

· Manage, support, develop and coach Environmental and Sustainability advisors.

· Responsible for local Environmental and Sustainability audit programme and ensuring continuous improvement.

· Conduct Environmental and Sustainability inspections, visits and joint tours.

· Utilise the findings from Environmental and Sustainability reporting data, assessments, external and internal audits to drive sustainability action plans and inform key business decisions.

· Ensure lessons learned are effectively communicated and implemented from incidents and audits.

· Champion a culture of continual improvement through Environmental and Sustainability Objectives and Targets and through appropriate metrics and KPIs

· Build and develop relationships with all relevant internal and external stakeholders (as required).

· Implementing and developing best practice standards across the project.

· Manage the Environmental and Sustainability resources to meet the requirements of the project.

· Promote Environmental and Sustainability initiatives and innovations.

· Share learnings and contribute to the continuous improvement via communities of practice.

· Provide regular updates to the Delivery Leadership Team against the project's environmental and sustainability deliverables.

Qualifications

· Degree in relevant field.

· Chartered ISEP environmental professional or working towards this qualification.

· Internal environmental auditor qualification.

· Competent ecological surveyor for one protected species.

Experience

· Proven experience in the infrastructure industry in an environmental and/or sustainability role.

· Proven experience of leading a team.

· Cost estimation and commercial awareness.

· MS Office - Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point to a high standard.

· Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with ability to operate in a range of environments.

· Able to demonstrate the ability to positively influence environment and sustainability within projects.

· Excellent organisational skills.

· Experience in implementing ISO14001.

· Knowledge or experience of DCOs and NSIPs.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

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Environmental & Sustainability Manager (Sizewell C)
Civil Works Alliance (CWA)
Sizewell C

Job Responsibilities

· Involvement in the implementation of the Environmental and Sustainability strategy for the project.

· Provide professional Environmental and Sustainability leadership and services.

· Advise and guide all levels within project team including the Delivery Leadership Team, Project Managers, Project Engineers, peers, operatives, office staff and subcontractors.

· Responsible for the management of sustainability and environmental risks and mitigation, consultation with clients, stakeholders and regulators (as required).

· Ensure that the Project teams are supported to meet their Environmental & Sustainability contractual, compliance and business requirements.

· Manage, support, develop and coach Environmental and Sustainability advisors.

· Responsible for local Environmental and Sustainability audit programme and ensuring continuous improvement.

· Conduct Environmental and Sustainability inspections, visits and joint tours.

· Utilise the findings from Environmental and Sustainability reporting data, assessments, external and internal audits to drive sustainability action plans and inform key business decisions.

· Ensure lessons learned are effectively communicated and implemented from incidents and audits.

· Champion a culture of continual improvement through Environmental and Sustainability Objectives and Targets and through appropriate metrics and KPIs

· Build and develop relationships with all relevant internal and external stakeholders (as required).

· Implementing and developing best practice standards across the project.

· Manage the Environmental and Sustainability resources to meet the requirements of the project.

· Promote Environmental and Sustainability initiatives and innovations.

· Share learnings and contribute to the continuous improvement via communities of practice.

· Provide regular updates to the Delivery Leadership Team against the project's environmental and sustainability deliverables.

Qualifications

· Degree in relevant field.

· Chartered ISEP environmental professional or working towards this qualification.

· Internal environmental auditor qualification.

· Competent ecological surveyor for one protected species.

Experience

· Proven experience in the infrastructure industry in an environmental and/or sustainability role.

· Proven experience of leading a team.

· Cost estimation and commercial awareness.

· MS Office - Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point to a high standard.

· Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with ability to operate in a range of environments.

· Able to demonstrate the ability to positively influence environment and sustainability within projects.

· Excellent organisational skills.

· Experience in implementing ISO14001.

· Knowledge or experience of DCOs and NSIPs.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

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