Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Starting from £44,380 per year depending on skills and experience. In addition, a flexible benefits fund of 15% is paid on top of base salary and is fully pensionable, alongside a range of competitive benefits.

About the Role
As an Environment Manager SCS at HS2, you will provide professional and technical support to ensure compliance with environmental minimum requirements throughout design and construction phases. You will assure that all activities align with organisational and sponsor requirements, environmental commitments, and relevant laws and regulations. Your responsibilities include guiding environmental design solutions, ensuring environmental issues and constraints are key considerations in project design, and supporting technical assurance through production, checking, and submission of assurance evidence for technical stage gates.

You will support the Senior Environment Manager in coordinating the environment element of HS2's risk-based technical assurance, authorise mandatory approvals by assuring contractor designs and construction comply with Environmental Minimum Requirements (EMRs), and manage communication of HS2 Environment & Sustainability requirements to Integrated Project Teams’ contractors.

Additional duties include internal and external reporting of environmental matters, liaising with technical stakeholders and local communities on sensitive issues, and collaborating with other technical specialists to develop appropriate and cost-balanced mitigation strategies and solutions.

Actively promoting and embedding Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work is essential, alongside supporting and complying with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures related to EDI.

Experience
- Managing standards, engineering, and environmental activities on large, complex major projects or programmes
- Managing competing project, engineering, and environmental demands with cost and schedule implications

About You
- Complex problem solving: ability to identify complex problems, review and interpret a wide range of data, evaluate options, and implement solutions consistent with other work
- Decision making: ability to gather and synthesise information, identify options, apply judgement based on logic and reason, and provide relevant information to suppliers, stakeholders, and decision makers
- Technical leadership: specialist support and leadership on discipline-specific scientific, technical, and environmental principles, knowing when to seek further guidance
- Communication: ability to clearly communicate discipline-specific technical ideas to colleagues
- Data management: understanding of effective information management, modelling, data security, and data visualisation under supervision
- Commercial awareness: understanding of cost delivery, schedule targets, and the need to deliver integrated solutions meeting all functional requirements
- Knowledge of applicable UK environmental law, construction regulations including CDM, and the regulatory/legislative framework relevant to HS2
- Membership of an appropriate professional institution or equivalent experience

Qualifications
- Right to Work in the UK at the time of application (HS2 Ltd does not provide sponsorship)
- Commitment to HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity, and Respect
- Active promotion and embedding of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work, supporting organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI