They are looking for a proactive and highly skilled Environmental Manager to join the STEP fusion programme, responsible for embedding Design for Environment (DfE) and environmental excellence into the development of a first of a kind fusion power plant. Reporting to the Head of Engineering Assurance, the role ensures environmental considerations are proactively integrated into engineering, design, programme governance, and delivery decision making. The postholder will provide authoritative environmental leadership shaping solutions that minimise environmental impact across the full lifecycle, from concept design through to decommissioning.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and continual refinement of the STEP Environmental Case, ensuring alignment with design maturity and regulatory expectations.
- Embed DfE principles into engineering workflows, design reviews, requirements management, and system level decision making.
- Lead environmental hazard identification (ENVIDs), influence mitigation strategies, and champion opportunities for environmental enhancement.
- Direct environmental modelling, lifecycle impact assessments, and Best Available Techniques (BAT) evaluations for key systems.
- Ensure compliance with UKAEA environmental governance, environmental legislation, and emerging fusion specific regulatory frameworks.
- Act as the primary environmental interface with engineering teams, programme leadership, regulators, and external stakeholders.
- Develop, track, and report environmental KPIs, ensuring environmental performance informs programme level decisions.
- Lead the preparation of EIA scoping inputs, ensuring timely, technically robust contributions to the planning and consenting process.
Qualifications
- Demonstrable experience in Lifecycle Assessment (LCA), carbon modelling, materials impact analysis, and end of life planning.
- Strong working knowledge of BAT principles, justification processes, and application in regulated or novel technology environments.
- Skilled in ENVID facilitation, environmental risk assessment, and integration of findings into engineering assurance.
- Deep understanding of UK environmental law, EIA Regulations, environmental permitting, and compliance frameworks.
- Ability to interpret, challenge, and apply environmental modelling outputs (emissions, waste, water, ecology).
- Competence in circular economy principles, resource efficiency, waste minimisation, and sustainable materials selection.
- Experience working within structured environmental governance environments, ideally in nuclear, energy, defence, or other highly regulated sectors.
Benefits
- Car Allowance
- On-site parking
- Company events
- Company pension
- Private medical insurance
- Staff Wellbeing Day each year
- Additional days leave for your birthday
- Sick Pay (after qualifying period)
