Environmental & Sustainability Manager

The Opportunity Environmental & Sustainability Manager, Bridgewater, Competitive Salary & Benefits EDF Energy has a new opportunity for an Environmental & Sustainability Manager role at our Hinkley Point C site, one of Europe's largest infrastructure projects. The Environmental and Sustainability Manager will be responsible for ensuring environmental compliance, the implementation of the integrated management system reflecting HPCs ISO14001 requirements as well as promoting high standards of contractor environmental performance. The role will lead a team of specialists covering a broad range of environmental disciplines from air quality and ecology through to contaminated land, waste management and radioactive substances and sustainability. The post holder will be the primary day to day interface with the local environmental regulators for the HPC site and local stakeholders including but not limited to; Somerset Wildlife Trust, Wetland Trust, Natural England, and Environmental Agency to ensure compliance and look at areas where we can work together to initiate joint projects that can benefit the environment. You will also build and drive the One Team approach with our tier one contractors and work in an integrated way with the DCC Environment team and Safety and Assurance colleagues to drive environmental protection, compliance and performance on site. As such, you will need to be equally comfortable on the construction site talking to workers and supervisors as in the boardroom with senior managers. The Person Our ideal candidate must possess a sense of integrity and an energetic passion for the environment. You will be able to build and maintain a strong and collaborative team of individuals working toward the same goalwitheffective communication skills and conflict resolution. Calmness and theabilityto identify step-by-step solutions are key as well asproblem-solving skills. Attitude plays a pivotal part of the role enabling quick decisions, resolving obstacles with theteam and external teams alike, ensuring projects are completed on time with E&S excellence in mind. You must be a dependable leader, elicitingtrust and reliance. A person that follows through on plans and keeps promises. The strong relationships built by the leader createa resilient team that is able to work through difficulties that may arise. A skill that will differentiate the right person from others is their competencies and ability to teach and mentor. Effectively teaching colleagues or direct reports to grow in their career. This attribute requires the E&S leaders to think less about themselves and more about how to make their team as a whole successful. The Skills Knowledge & Skills Must have extensive skills leading E&S teams working on large complex highly regulated construction projects Must have a broad range of construction field skills, preferably full life cycle from civils to mechanical HVAC electrical and completions Credible demonstrable leadership and influencing skills and experience A detailed understanding of the requirements and arrangements needed to deliver compliance with environmental permits, licences and consents A good understanding of the expectations, opportunities and limitations with regards to Sustainability on a large infrastructure project. Experience of driving the sustainability agenda in a previous project would be an advantage An understanding of the challenges faced through installation and commissioning of complex engineering project, ensuring manufactured as specified and built as designed 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 Strong assurance and challenge skills with excellent communication/interpersonal skills notably with various levels of the organisation and externally Discretion - Confidentiality when dealing with sensitive information Qualifications & Experience Qualified to degree level in a related discipline Experience in a technical or engineering discipline Demonstrated leadership experience is essential 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 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. Experience in working on a Nuclear Licensed Site and/or experience in working with the Office for Nuclear Regulation would be an advantage. Experience in managing the implementation of regulatory commitments, Experience of driving the implementation and embedding of management arrangements Competitive Salary & Benefits We offer a competitive salary and ben