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To provide environmental and sustainability leadership, promote best practice and ensure the Sizewell C site and associated developments maintain on site compliance with environmental permits and licences.
Sizewell C Ltd is constructing a nuclear power station at Sizewell C (SZC) in Suffolk, to provide low carbon electricity for over 7 million homes. As the SZC project moves through construction into installation and commissioning phases and ultimately to operation, Sizewell C is seeking an experienced environmental professional to lead a site-based team that ensures environmental compliance and drives environmental performance improvements on this exciting, nationally significant infrastructure project.
The site environment and sustainability team, led by the Environment and Sustainability (E&S) Manager delivers regulatory compliance on site and maintains oversight of contractors’ performance and engagement with construction and delivery teams.
The E&S Manager’s position is a senior role at SZC and reports to the SZC Head of Site Compliance within the site construction delivery team.
Operating environment:
Working within the constraints of the development consent order and the various environmental frameworks, permits and consents, the post holder will build effective relationships with SZC Client Team representatives and service providers to ensure environmental and sustainability responsibilities and obligations are achieved.
Framework and boundaries:
The SZC project’s environmental performance and sustainability achievements are paramount to realising Sizewell C’s goal of zero harm. the performance of the Project will be under intense scrutiny from both internal and external stakeholders.
The E&S Manager will be responsible for ensuring construction environmental compliance, the implementation of the project's integrated management system reflecting SZC’s ISO14001 requirements, as well as ensuring high standards of contractor environmental performance. The E&S Manager will lead a team of specialists covering a broad range of environmental disciplines including air quality, noise, and ecology through to contaminated land, waste management and sustainability.
The post holder will be the primary day to day interface with the local environmental regulators for the SZC Site and local stakeholders.
The role will also build and drive the company’s One team approach with our tier one contractors and work in an integrated way with the client environment team and safety and assurance colleagues to drive environmental protection, compliance and performance on site. As such, the post holder will need to be equally comfortable on the construction site talking to workers and supervisors as in the boardroom with senior managers.
You’ll be responsible for:
1. Providing clear and concise leadership at all times to direct reports and Tier 1 suppliers.
2. Ensuring compliance arrangements are established and maintained to deliver compliance with environmental commitments and conditions with numerous site environmental permits, consents and licences.
3. Managing, co-ordinate and monitor environmental and sustainability activities on site to ensure full compliance with agreed environmental standards and expectations.
4. Ensuring world-class environmental behaviour and culture with the teams on site and supply chain including provision of strategic environmental leadership for the SZC site.
5. Ensure that significant environmental aspects identified for the project are managed and mitigated appropriately.
6. Driving environmental and sustainability performance with the SZC project and operations teams as well Tier One contractors to deliver best practice.
7. Working with the client team on engagement with the local environmental regulators, particularly the environment agency.
8. Providing a highly professional customer/client-based service in all aspects of environmental and regulatory interfaces.
9. Maintaining compliance with ISO 14001:2015 environmental management system standard, ensuring that, through its implementation, the effects of the construction site’s activities conform to its environmental policy and associated objectives and targets.
10. Maintaining oversight and responsibility for the programme of site environmental inspections and surveillance activities.
11. Developing and implement Site environmental performance measurements (KPI’s), review and reporting requirements to drive continuous environmental improvement.
12. Event management: Undertake environmental investigations to establish performance improvements and learning.
13. Ensuring that department resources, processes and activities are reviewed and optimised to achieve SZC project objectives. Ensure that all section staff are assessed, appraised, trained and developed in line with project needs.
14. Managing the department’s activities to meet agreed quality standards, ensuring compliance with the SZC project quality manual and quality improvement programme and meet prescribed service levels, standards and targets by ensuring procedural adherence of the team and contractors.
15. Developing professional working relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders including the Client Environment Team, Internal regulator, Site operations team, Tier 1 contractors and regulators.
16. Ensuring that construction experience feedback is promoted and used to enable continuous improvement in environmental and sustainability performance.
17. 4 Direct reports (team of 10) with responsibility for the team’s performance.
18. Required to influence the performance of environment professionals within the project supply chain.
19. Implementation of role accountabilities through pre-construction, construction delivery and commissioning.
20. Supporting numerous multi-disciplinary construction and commissioning delivery teams, driving performance across several Tier 1 contract teams with a workforce of circa 8000 at peak.
21. Managing a budget for environmental monitoring on the SZC.
22. Accountable to the head of site compliance.
You’ll need to have:
23. Must have extensive skills leading E&S teams working on large complex highly regulated construction projects.
24. Must have a broad range of construction field skills, preferably full life cycle from civils to mechanical electrical and completions.
25. Credible demonstrable leadership and influencing skills and experience.
26. A detailed understanding of the requirements and arrangements needed to deliver compliance with environmental permits, licences and consents.
27. A good understanding of the expectations, opportunities and limitations with regards to sustainability on a large infrastructure project.
28. Experience of driving the sustainability agenda in a previous project would be an advantage.
29. An understanding of the challenges faced through site preparation works, construction, installation and commissioning of complex engineering project, ensuring manufactured as specified and built as designed.
30. General professional qualities such as accuracy, attention to detail, tenacity, result-oriented, the ability to work well within a team. Good organisational skills and the ability to work independently and be pro-active.
31. Strong assurance and challenge skills with excellent communication/interpersonal skills notably with various levels of the organisation and externally.
32. Discretion - confidentiality when dealing with sensitive information.
33. Qualified to degree level in an Environmental related discipline.
34. Experience in a technical or engineering discipline.
35. Demonstrated leadership experience is essential.
36. Extensive experience both client and principal contractor managing environmental issues on a large infrastructure/engineering project (or similar) extensive on-site experience, knowledge of construction and commissioning activities, approaches, standards and expectations.
37. Experience of developing and leading strong relationships with the regulators and other public bodies, essential experience of delivery of regulatory commitments would be an advantage.
38. Experience in a highly regulated industry would be an advantage.
39. Experience in managing the implementation of regulatory commitments.
40. Experience of driving the implementation and embedding of management arrangements.
Key competencies:
Inspiration:
41. Translates departmental goals and plans into meaningful and achievable personal and team objectives.
42. Ensures that all activities are clearly linked to departmental plans and in line with SIZEWELL C’ Energy’s values, ambitions and vision.
43. Encourages a culture of continuous improvement and the safe expression of ideas and constructive challenge.
44. Structures communication in a clear, succinct and logical manner.
45. Simplifies complex and technical matters for others to understand.
Integrity:
46. Puts health and safety at the top of the agenda.
47. Operates in an ethical manner - acts with honesty and integrity.
48. Remains focussed under pressure, thinking clearly and objectively.
49. Has the courage to have difficult conversations.
50. Manages stress and responds constructively to the source of issues.
Inclusion:
51. Is transparent with people about performance, offering constructive feedback.
52. Addresses misunderstandings constructively and resolves any conflicts or disagreements as soon as possible (with self or within the team).
53. Encourages everyone to take a shared responsibility in team goals.
54. Values input from outside own team.
55. Consistently displays a confident and assertive presence to others.
56. Regularly holds one-to-one meetings with team members.
Impact:
57. Ensures a consistent high level of work output is produced.
58. Signals at the earliest opportunity if progress to deadlines is under threat.
59. Assesses issues in terms of long-term value as well as short-term measures.
60. Demonstrates and encourages awareness of our commercial performance.
61. Ensures all decisions meet with legal, regulatory and internal control.
Technical competencies:
62. Interprets and evaluates regulation to ensure that a proportionate risk-based solution is agreed and implemented.
63. Provides evidence of regulatory compliance through annual report submissions
64. Demonstrates ability to positively drive complex issues which potentially challenge or are significant contributors to security environment.
Sustainable business:
Employees are responsible for understanding and carrying out their job accountabilities in a manner which will enable SIZEWELL C’ Energy to be a sustainable business, financially, environmentally and socially.
Health and safety responsibilities:
Sizewell C’ Energy’s commitment to health, safety, wellbeing and environment is clearly stated in the company policy statements and Code of Conduct.
Managers carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of employees, additional staff under their control, and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations, and for minimising any harm to the environment.
Employees are responsible for ensuring they fully cooperate with all control measures that have been identified and for taking care of themselves, any other people who may be affected by their actions and the environment.
Our values
Safety first - Going home safe and well: We champion a safe, diverse and inclusive working environment, understanding the importance of wellbeing in every team.
Client focus - Deliver on our promise: We own the quality of deliverables, strategic outcomes and build long term relationships with our clients.
Integrity - Always do the right thing: We influence positive outcomes within our industry, while always aligning with our compliance obligations.
Create opportunity - For our people to excel: We champion a continuous improvement culture throughout all activities, inspiring our people and teams to develop.
Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.
We are also open to discussing part time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable with-in the role.
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