Due to the rapid and exciting growth of our internal environmental consultancy services, we are looking for a Senior Environmental Specialist to join our Environmental team. In this role, you will provide services on a range of exciting projects across the UK, spanning the road, rail, water, and property sectors.

Kier is committed to creating a workplace where everyone is empowered to achieve their career goals. Our people are at the heart of our business, using their skills and creativity to provide solutions and services to our clients and customers. We are only able to deliver our business goals because of the commitment and talent of our people working together to a common purpose. 

Location: Nationwide – travel to sites and offices required with remote working available

Contract: Permanent Fulltime with some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

Salary: £38,000 - £43,000 per year + £5.9k annual car allowance + private healthcare + benefits

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Environmental Specialist, you will act as a focal point for environmental advice and lead on environmental impact assessments, permit, licence and consent applications and overall project sustainability performance

Your day to day will include:

• Support the delivery of environmental consultancy services across a range of sectors including road, rail, water and property
• Lead on environmental impact assessments for projects, identifying key environmental risks, proposing mitigation strategies and developing management plans
• Ensure all relevant environmental permits, licences and consents are obtained in a timely manner
• Promote decarbonisation, climate resilience, nature-based solutions and innovation across the business
• Represent the team in client, stakeholder and technical meetings

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Environmental Specialist is great if you have:

• Environmental/sustainability degree or equivalent experience
• Practitioner member of IEMA (or equivalent) and working towards CEnv
• Robust understanding of UK environmental legislation and policy
• Demonstrable experience undertaking environmental assessment for infrastructure or building projects
• Good understanding of a breadth of environmental issues such as waste and materials management, water environment, air quality, noise, heritage, landscape and ecology, or a specialist in one of these topics 
• Full UK driving licence

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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