Senior Environmental Sustainability Manager (Sizewell C)

Job Category:  Other
Contract Partner Company:  Civil Works Alliance (CWA)
Employing Company:  CWA

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Senior Environmental Sustainability Manager (Sizewell C)
Civil Works Alliance
Sizewell C


We are looking for a Senior Environmental Sustainability Manager to join the Civil Works Alliance (CWA) for the delivery of Sizewell C-one of the UK's most significant energy infrastructure projects. As part of the CWA, you will lead on and assure environmental compliance and sustainability performance during the construction of a 3.2-gigawatt nuclear power station, providing low-carbon electricity for six million homes and shaping the energy landscape for the next 60 years.
 

This is an opportunity to be a key figure within a delivery organisation that brings together the knowledge and experience of Sizewell C, Balfour Beatty, Bouygues Travaux Publics and Laing O'Rourke. Your leadership will be instrumental in embedding best-practice sustainability, driving innovation, and ensuring we set new standards in environmental delivery.


In this role, you will:


•    Provide hands-on, visible leadership for environmental compliance across complex construction areas and work packages on site
•    Ensure all activities comply with environmental approvals, permits, and management plans, proactively identifying and mitigating risk
•    Oversee and continually improve CWA and supply chain environmental management plans and controls, ensuring they are practical, robust and truly integrated into how we work
•    Lead monitoring, inspections, audits and assurance activities, driving performance, influencing behaviours and ensuring any incidents are managed and lessons implemented
•    Act as the primary on-site point of contact for client environment, compliance and assurance representatives, building strong, collaborative relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
•    Champion and facilitate delivery of our sustainability targets around carbon, waste, water, materials and biodiversity-ensuring initiatives are practical, achievable and impactful at site level
•    Lead, mentor and develop the on-site Environmental & Sustainability Team, building environmental capability, accountability and a culture of excellence across all Alliance partners and supply chain
•    Set expectations and provide targeted training, toolbox talks and coaching to embed consistent compliance and best practice behaviours across the project


We are looking for someone who brings:


•    Proven experience within the Construction, Civils, Utilities or Energy sector in an environmental and/or sustainability role
•    Sound knowledge of construction environmental management systems and regulatory frameworks, with demonstrable experience leading environmental compliance on major projects
•    A strong track record of leading and developing high-performing teams
•    Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to influence at all levels
•    Relevant degree (e.g., Environmental Science, Sustainability Engineering or related discipline) and high proficiency with MS Office
•    Strong commercial awareness and the ability to drive results in complex, fast-paced environments
•    Professional accreditation and experience working within an alliance delivery model would be highly advantageous
 

This is a rare chance to join a collaborative, high-profile team on a project that will define the future of the UK's energy supply-while setting a new benchmark for environmental delivery and sustainability. If you want to make a visible difference on a "once in a generation" project, we invite you to click the following link to apply.

 

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

The SZC Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long-term careers across our Project. #SZCJobs

Senior Environmental Sustainability Manager (Sizewell C)
Civil Works Alliance
Sizewell C


We are looking for a Senior Environmental Sustainability Manager to join the Civil Works Alliance (CWA) for the delivery of Sizewell C-one of the UK's most significant energy infrastructure projects. As part of the CWA, you will lead on and assure environmental compliance and sustainability performance during the construction of a 3.2-gigawatt nuclear power station, providing low-carbon electricity for six million homes and shaping the energy landscape for the next 60 years.
 

This is an opportunity to be a key figure within a delivery organisation that brings together the knowledge and experience of Sizewell C, Balfour Beatty, Bouygues Travaux Publics and Laing O'Rourke. Your leadership will be instrumental in embedding best-practice sustainability, driving innovation, and ensuring we set new standards in environmental delivery.


In this role, you will:


•    Provide hands-on, visible leadership for environmental compliance across complex construction areas and work packages on site
•    Ensure all activities comply with environmental approvals, permits, and management plans, proactively identifying and mitigating risk
•    Oversee and continually improve CWA and supply chain environmental management plans and controls, ensuring they are practical, robust and truly integrated into how we work
•    Lead monitoring, inspections, audits and assurance activities, driving performance, influencing behaviours and ensuring any incidents are managed and lessons implemented
•    Act as the primary on-site point of contact for client environment, compliance and assurance representatives, building strong, collaborative relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
•    Champion and facilitate delivery of our sustainability targets around carbon, waste, water, materials and biodiversity-ensuring initiatives are practical, achievable and impactful at site level
•    Lead, mentor and develop the on-site Environmental & Sustainability Team, building environmental capability, accountability and a culture of excellence across all Alliance partners and supply chain
•    Set expectations and provide targeted training, toolbox talks and coaching to embed consistent compliance and best practice behaviours across the project


We are looking for someone who brings:


•    Proven experience within the Construction, Civils, Utilities or Energy sector in an environmental and/or sustainability role
•    Sound knowledge of construction environmental management systems and regulatory frameworks, with demonstrable experience leading environmental compliance on major projects
•    A strong track record of leading and developing high-performing teams
•    Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to influence at all levels
•    Relevant degree (e.g., Environmental Science, Sustainability Engineering or related discipline) and high proficiency with MS Office
•    Strong commercial awareness and the ability to drive results in complex, fast-paced environments
•    Professional accreditation and experience working within an alliance delivery model would be highly advantageous
 

This is a rare chance to join a collaborative, high-profile team on a project that will define the future of the UK's energy supply-while setting a new benchmark for environmental delivery and sustainability. If you want to make a visible difference on a "once in a generation" project, we invite you to click the following link to apply.

 

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home-grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they also have an eye on the future.

EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Nuclear power is the most reliable, low-carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low-carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education.

We’re not just building new nuclear power stations. We’re developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.

It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there’s always a need for more.

Our industry has a mind-boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry which is changing.

We’re a responsible business and proud to be Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.