About the Role
The Environmental Manager position in Poplar involves overseeing environmental compliance for a major infrastructure project, with responsibilities spanning design, construction, and programme integration. This full-time, site-based role offers a salary between £60,000 and £65,000 per annum. The post holder will deliver technical guidance to construction and design teams, challenge existing practices, and assure adherence to environmental requirements across two sites. Candidates should possess substantial experience in construction environmental management, with strong knowledge of compliance frameworks and the ability to influence project delivery. The role requires a proactive approach to integrating environmental considerations into all operational phases, ensuring standards are consistently met throughout the project lifecycle.
Environmental Manager | Major Infrastructure Project
Location: Central Birmingham (Covering 2 sites)
Salary: Up to £60,000 + electric company car, bonus, pension and private healthcare
Working pattern: Full-time, site-based
An established joint venture delivering a major infrastructure project in Birmingham is looking to appoint an experienced Environmental Manager to support its construction operations.
This is a key site-based position responsible for managing environmental compliance, providing technical guidance and ensuring environmental requirements are fully integrated across design, construction activities and the wider project programme.
Key responsibilities:
- Provide environmental advice and support to construction, design and delivery teams.
- Manage, challenge and assure compliance with environmental commitments, legal requirements, consents and project controls.
- Ensure environmental requirements and mitigation measures are embedded within construction methodologies, designs and programmes.
- Coordinate environmental activity across areas including ecology, landscape, heritage, water, flood risk, waste, carbon, contaminated land, noise and vibration, air quality and soils.
- Engage with subcontractors and their environmental representatives to ensure requirements are understood and effectively implemented.
- Lead the preparation and review of site environmental plans, assessments and supporting documentation.
- Monitor environmental performance, identify compliance risks and drive corrective actions.
- Investigate environmental incidents and non-conformances, ensuring lessons learned are shared across the project.
- Work closely with consents, assurance, sustainability, design, commercial and health and safety teams.
- Identify environmental training requirements and support the delivery of site-based awareness and training.
- Lead and support members of the environmental team.
- Identify and deliver opportunities for environmental and sustainability improvements throughout construction.
- Exenstive environmental experience, ideally gained within construction, civil engineering or major infrastructure.
- Experience working on large-scale infrastructure projects, such as rail, highways or other complex linear developments.
- A background with a main contractor, civil engineering consultancy or specialist environmental contractor.
- Strong knowledge of construction environmental management, compliance and assurance.
- Experience managing environmental design, mitigation measures, consents and site controls.
- The confidence to challenge construction methodologies and designs where environmental requirements have not been sufficiently addressed.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with site teams, technical specialists, subcontractors and senior stakeholders.
- A full UK driving licence and willingness to drive project vehicles between sites.
If you are interested in hearing more, please click apply.
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