What are the responsibilities and job description for the Environment Advisor (5687) position at Laing O'Rourke?
Are you passionate about environmental sustainability in delivering projects and making a significant impact in a forward thinking innovative company?
Laing O'Rourke are currently recruiting for an Environment Advisor to work on our Monklands Hospital Replacement Project in Airdrie (Scotland).
Do you have previous experience in supporting projects to deliver stringent environmental requirements? Do you have experience delivering in different sectors and achieving BREEAM? Last but not least you want to be involved in delivering exciting projects? Then don't miss this opportunity to join this prestigious team.
What will the role look like?
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com
About Us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com
Laing O'Rourke are currently recruiting for an Environment Advisor to work on our Monklands Hospital Replacement Project in Airdrie (Scotland).
Do you have previous experience in supporting projects to deliver stringent environmental requirements? Do you have experience delivering in different sectors and achieving BREEAM? Last but not least you want to be involved in delivering exciting projects? Then don't miss this opportunity to join this prestigious team.
What will the role look like?
- Support the business in driving our ambitions to push the boundaries of sustainability, helping us to achieve our ambition to be a net zero company delivering nature positive solutions with teams that represent our diverse society.
- Assure compliance with the LOR Energy and Environmental Management System
- Support our project teams to embed our clients and our own sustainability requirements within the project
- Identify environmental risks and opportunities and engage with the project team to ensure these are appropriately managed
- Identify relevant consents required to deliver the scheme, engage with the relevant consent granting body and achieve consent granted in line with the project programme
- Engage with specialist environmental contractors to manage relevant environmental risks
- Review, advise and deliver environmental training required for project staff and operatives
- Engage with the workforce around environmental issues
- Develop the Construction Environmental Management Plan identifying relevant risks and opportunities and ensuring it is updated and maintained to identify the specific environmental risks and associated mitigation measures.
- Ensuring that a Resource Management Plan is developed and maintained to manage waste and includes appropriate responsibilities, waste targets and legal compliance information.
- Collating and reporting on environmental performance
- Monitor the performance of the projects through routine environmental inspections and checking monitoring arrangements are in place to meet the environmental requirements
- Promote the environmental initiatives aligned with our sustainability strategy such as carbon reduction, waste minimisation and the protection of nature
- Ensuring that appropriate environmental emergency arrangements are, implemented and tested as appropriate.
- Participating in management reviews and audits of the status, adequacy and effectiveness of the project or establishment Environmental Management Plan.
- Report and investigate environmental incidents and non-conformances and subsequent corrective actions.
- High level of personal drive and commitment, with effective goal setting ability
- Be capable of meeting deadlines and prioritising activities
- Able to take strategic views of the environmental requirements and agree and implement resultant plans.
- Experience in delivering BREEAM
- Positive approach to the challenges of change, help others to become receptive and responsive to change
- Be technically familiar with an extensive range of environmental processes and procedures
- Logical and well organised with the ability to prioritise
- Ability to communicate effectively at all management levels and to build and maintain good working relationships
- Understanding of the requirements of ISO14001 and ISO50001 and management of compliance with Management Systems
- Relevant undergraduate degree in Environmental management, sustainability, environmental sciences or similar
- BREEAM AP
- Membership of IEMA, IES or IEEM (minimum of practitioner or equivalent desired)
- Lead Environmental Auditor Role
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com
About Us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com
