Head of Environment and Sustainability

Aureos is seeking a Head of Environment and Sustainability to lead the Environment and Sustainability teams across the business; ensuring competent resource, effective management systems, implementation of strategies and procedures, providing leadership to the senior management team.

• Ensure relevant strategies, procedures and improvement plans are embedded, implemented, monitored and remain relevant.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure sufficient resource as required and budgeted, in line with client requirements, internal professional competency frameworks, policy and strategies.
• Lead on environment and sustainability related compliance, assurance and opportunities for improvement including internal audits, managing investigations and monitoring trends in contributions and inspections.
• Leadership including challenge where required, promotion of behaviours, standards and methods of working, representing the company at external events.
• Support external audits e.g. ISO14001, PAS2080 and ensuring these accreditations are maintained.
• Ensure effective management systems, including the identification of opportunities for improvement, and accurate reporting enabling timely decision making.
• Leading by example in all areas of health, safety, sustainability and wellbeing.
• Lead on ESG reporting for the business; being accountable for carbon, environmental and social value data, plus facilitating input from other functions as required.
• Liaison with regulatory/enforcement bodies when required.

• Chartership or working towards in relevant professional body (e.g. ISEP).
• Driving Licence or other means of travel to remote sites across UK and Ireland.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills, able to build relationships based on trust, drive positive change and respond to challenge in an inclusive manner.
• On site presence, demonstrate working knowledge of the business activities and provision of support to promote a learning culture for environmental sustainability and social value.
• Passion for sustainability demonstrated through the ability to effectively communicate knowledge.
• Experience working at a senior management level in a relevant industry.
• Active attendance and participation in strategic level internal and external meetings / forums.
• Industrial knowledge across Infrastructure sectors (rail, energy, highways, nuclear, water etc).
• Working understanding of projects (ideally in a construction environment), management systems and relevant legislation.
• Understanding of circular economy principles and lifecycles, waste legislation, bio-diversity (including accounting tools), social value (including accounting) and consents.
• Experience in significant incident investigation.
• Understanding of sustainable procurement, design and engineering, utilities and EDI.
• Experience of carbon reporting across all scopes and the use of carbon tools.
• CSCS / EUSR / PTS
• Working knowledge of ISO50001, PAS2080 and ESOS.
• Knowledge of risk identification and management.
• Able to demonstrate strong safety leadership and people management skills.
• Ability to use IT systems including Microsoft 365, specific systems and tools (e.g. carbon accounting, social value reporting).
• Understanding of working methods, health, safety and environmental management systems and relevant ISO.
• Ability to drive continuous improvement, challenging the status quo for the benefit of the business, supporting learning and development.
• Understanding of wellbeing and a way of working that puts people at the heart of the strategy.
• Relevant site experience and ability to have quality safety tours/conversations.
• Excellent time management and relationship skills, comfortably working effectively within a broad range of working environments.
• Experience of implementing a strategy, communicating targets, assessing risk and opportunity, reporting and ongoing monitoring.
• Degree or equivalent in relevant Environmental Management or Sustainability subject.
• Positive attitude and ability to influence others.

• A dynamic and supportive team environment.
• Opportunities for career advancement and professional growth.
• Mental Health First Aider
• Competitive salary and benefits package.