Environment & Sustainability Advisors

Peterborough, England, United Kingdom

1/27/2025

About the @one Alliance

The Anglian Water @one Alliance is a totally collaborative organisation made up of nine partner companies (Anglian Water, SWECO, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, and Skanska) and an extended supply chain, delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.

We are gearing up for our most exciting and challenging Asset Management Period yet, known as AMP8, this will see us deliver a programme of work larger than we’ve ever delivered before. We’ll be embarking on a new kind of project delivery focusing on nature-based solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes.

We are driving change, empowering us to set global benchmarks and build a better environment, with the opportunity to offer enhanced growth and development to our workforce. We’re looking to build on our existing teams with an environment built for career progression.

With such an exciting portfolio of projects planned for AMP8 to keep the water flowing across the region, our ability to manage our work and outperform against our customer’s expectations will come under greater scrutiny.

We need aspiring driven talent to help us achieve our ambitious targets, are you ready to join us as we prepare to deliver the most creative and innovative AMP we have ever seen?

About Sweco

Transforming society together, we're planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future.

Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable.

We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.

To ensure we support our objectives of collaboration across the business whilst providing our workforce with the agility to achieve a healthy work/ life balance, we are asking our employees to have office or site presence on an average of three days a week.

Our exciting and diverse array of projects across our region keeps us on our toes and we are committed to providing the best water and water recycling services to our customers. However, we understand and appreciate our roles as environmental custodians, meaning we never compromise our duties to our natural surroundings during our construction work. To support our Environmental Managers in the delivery of strategic priorities, we are looking for an Environmental Advisor to join the Safety, Health, Environmental & Quality (SHEQ) team.

What will you be doing as our new Environmental Advisor?

As our new Environmental Advisor, you’ll provide support to project teams during pre-construction and on-site stages of multiple projects You’ll assist in the preparation and review of environmental paperwork required for construction ensuring we remain ethical and compliant whilst not impacting on pressing deadlines.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing support to construction projects on environmental and sustainability issues, including assisting with document production and review as necessary.
• Work collaboratively across the @one Alliance contract to ensure requirements of the Alliance Management System (AMS) are delivered at appropriate stages and environmental constraints are communicated.
• Consult with environmental regulators and key stakeholders where not undertaken in earlier project planning stages.
• Undertake regular inspections and audits on construction sites across the region to ensure compliance with current environmental legislation and internal requirements, and highlight and promote best practices.
• Support Partner Organisations in achieving their environmental goals and sustainability objectives.
• Form part of the CAT1 and CAT2 incident investigation team and assist with the reporting of CAT3 and CAT4 / Near miss reporting whilst updating the NCR log for environmental issues and close out.
• Develop and deliver training on environmental issues as required by the @one Alliance training plan.
• Provide accurate, timely and value-added performance reporting to contribute to business decision making.
  
  

A little bit about your skills, experience and behaviours….

To join the team in achieving environmental excellence, you’ll have experience in providing on site environmental support and have an interest in a host of environmental issues including soil testing, archaeology, ecology and contaminated land as well as knowledge of key environmental legislation. Your direct experience with environmental regulators alongside your data analysis and interpretation will allow you to make informed and trusted suggestions and decisions.

Educated to degree level in an environmental related discipline, with membership of a professional body, and possessing excellent communication and problem-solving skills, you’ll relish the opportunity to work across our alliance and enhance our environmental offerings to encourage safe, ethical and robust outperformance.

If you are an experienced, ambitious and driven Environmental professional looking for the next step in your career, please apply today!

@OneAlliance vision

A Collaborative Alliance, Driving Change. Empowering Us To Set Global Benchmarks And Building a Better Environment For Our Customers. We Strive To

Empower our people; Delight our Customers; Embrace digital transformation; Deliver brilliance.

@OneAlliance Values

To bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop we:

Build trust; Do the right thing; Are always exploring

The Anglian Water @one Alliance. Nine partners, endless opportunities.

Let’s transform society together at Sweco.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

It’s important to us that that all our colleagues thrive at work - we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects the contribution individuals can bring to Sweco. We aim to promote equality, inclusivity and diversity for everyone.

Here at Sweco we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity.

We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant to ensure those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly. To find out more The Armed Forces Covenant - Our Commitments | Sweco UK .

We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer, and will interview applicants covered by the Equality Act 2010 that opt into the guaranteed interview scheme on the application form and meet the minimum criteria for the role.

If I have a disability, can I get help (e.g. “reasonable adjustments”) with the application process?

If you’re an applicant with a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability or unable to use the online application system and need an alternative method for applying, please contact GB_Function-HR-Resourcing@sweco.co.uk for assistance.

In order to address your request the following information is needed:

• Name
• The best method for contacting you (Phone or email)
• The position title
• Requisition/vacancy number
  
  

Upon receipt of this information, we’ll respond to you promptly to obtain more information about your request.

Please note: we reserve the right to close vacancies before the advertised closing date.

Sweco UK&I have an internal resourcing team who are responsible for all recruiting activity. We have a Preferred Supplier List of trusted agencies who we work with on those “hard to fill” roles.

We have defined processes for recruitment applications and it is company policy not to accept speculative CVs. Any speculative CVs received into the business (whether to a manager or member of the resourcing team) will become the property of Sweco and the agency will not be eligible for an introductory fee.

Our Preferred Supplier List was reviewed in November 2024 and we are not looking to add any additional agencies. We’ll be reviewing the PSL again at the end of 2025 and non-compliance with the above statements could be detrimental to you having the opportunity to be included.

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