Description
OCU leads the way in end-to-end infrastructure engineering in the utilities, digital, and energy markets, specialising in safely and efficiently delivering complex client requirements. Our breadth of capabilities and depth of operational capacity, paired with our cutting‑edge technology, ensure that we are not just part of the market; we are leading it.
Department: SHEQ & Growth
Location: Stockport
Working directly with many of the country’s leading power, energy transition, water, telecoms and digital clients, we are looking for the very best talent to join our growing team. The Senior Sustainability & Environment Manager will lead the development and execution of the company’s UK sustainability action plan, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and standards and driving continual improvement. This role will drive UK initiatives to reduce environmental impact, enhance social responsibility, and achieve long‑term sustainability goals across all operations and projects in the UK.
Key Responsibilities
* Working with the Group Sustainability Director, lead the development and delivery of the UK sustainability action plan ensuring alignment with Group sustainability strategy and UK specific client and legal requirements.
* Manage the UK Sustainability Taskforce ensuring effective representation, accountability and outputs from all members in line with the Sustainability Action Plan.
* Ensure future UK legislation changes are identified, assessed, and communicated; collaborate with relevant stakeholders to put in place processes to ensure compliance.
* Maintain a UK environmental legal register, reviewed at least annually and compliance evaluated.
* Manage the UK ESG and Sustainability reporting requirements ensuring alignment with Group reporting and client and UK specific reporting.
* Implement digital systems to aid efficient and transparent reporting.
* Manage the UK decarbonisation plan in line with OCU’s Science‑Based Targets and Group decarbonisation strategy, ensuring buy‑in and accountability for action owners.
* Lead a team of environmental & sustainability professionals and work with Line Managers to ensure they have the appropriate competencies to support the business.
* Work with business leads to ensure current and future contracts have appropriate internal and external environmental and sustainability resources.
* Develop and maintain the UK environmental management system ensuring continual improvement and compliance with ISO14001 and Group sustainability standards.
* Maintain an environmental aspects & Impact register, communicating significant risks at a Group level via the Group Sustainability Director.
* Support work‑winning by ensuring standard responses are in place, provide relevant data, ensure bids are effectively resourced, and attend bid workshops and presentations.
* Work with the Group Sustainability Director to raise OCU Group’s profile as a leader in sustainability by ensuring attendance and speaking opportunities at industry and sustainability forums and working groups.
* Capture and communicate best practices in environmental and sustainability both in the UK region and across the Group.
* Develop and implement environmental and sustainability training and skills matrices ensuring all accountable persons have the right competencies.
* Ensure environmental incidents are effectively reported, investigated, and any required changes to processes are implemented and communicated across the business.
* Conduct regular environmental inspections and audits (and account for them in the annual assurance plan), identifying and communicating trends to business leads, and lead on developing initiatives to address any changes.
* Develop UK environmental and sustainability KPIs (leading and lagging), align them with any Group‑led targets, and track and monitor performance to support corrective action planning.
* Manage relationships with key stakeholders (including the EA, SEPA, DEFRA, etc.) and relevant NGOs in proactive interface and issue management.
* Align closely with the UK H&S Director, quality, and data reporting and governance teams to ensure a coordinated approach to SHESQ and to support the development of SHEQ Business Partners and front‑line SHEQ advisory capability in E&S.
* Ensure that the sustainability and environment team becomes a UK centre of excellence for related subject matter and acts in an advisory capacity to the business.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
* Practitioner (or higher) Member of the Institute of Sustainability & Environmental Professionals.
* Degree level qualification in a relevant subject (Environmental Science, Sustainability, etc.).
* Extensive previous experience in deploying Environmental Management Systems and auditing ISO14001.
* Excellent leadership skills, able to influence, motivate and direct both internally and externally.
* Ability to coach and mentor team members and others to achieve personal and team goals.
* Experience of leading and implementing sustainability strategies.
* Excellent report‑writing and presentation skills.
* Has a “can‑do” attitude, is methodical and can demonstrate results.
* Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
* Has a real passion to drive sustainability throughout the business.
EEO Statement
To ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to join our team, please inform us if you require any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment and interview process by emailing recruitment@ocugroup.com.
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