Environmental Lead

Description

• Line Management of Teams
• Safety leadership in the discipline, ensuring monthly cascades are attended, championing close call reporting, demonstrating openness and commitment to improve safety
• Participate in industry events to engage with new Clients and Partners
• Management of the health, safety and wellbeing of staff in the team
• Responsible for the discipline strategy, recruitment, training and development of staff
• Identifying and growing a sustainable pipeline of opportunities in the discipline focusing on the Ireland market
• Maintain strong working relationships, communication, knowledge sharing, innovation sharing with other SYSTRA entities.
• Inspire technical excellence within the environmental team.
• Ensuring that, where necessary, staff are experienced and qualified to undertake the level of environmental input required on any individual project
• Undertaking and cascading objective setting and mid-year development reviews
• Ensuring that a blend of competent staff and independent contractors (ICs) are available for the successful delivery of single and multi-disciplinary projects.
• Leadership of technical safety within the function, including mastering of regulations such as CDM requirements, and industry best practice such as safe by design and health by design (prevention through engineering design).
• Cascading of business communications through the team
• Maintaining an up to date understanding of market drivers, developments in discipline and key innovations in discipline.
• Ensuring that technically sound solutions are produced, including all associated reporting and cost estimating, to programme and within budget
• Identifying multi-discipline opportunities to be followed in collaboration with other infrastructure/systems disciplines and in collaboration with the consultancy business
• Development and recruitment of skills in line with the growth needs and the future and immediate pipeline of opportunities.
• Working in collaboration with Market Directors and PMO teams to identify resources required to deliver bids and projectsDelivery of project work to agreed programme, budget and safety and quality specifications
• Maintaining a competence framework for the discipline as part of a wider SYSTRA Ltd competence matrix

Requirements

• Thorough knowledge of a diverse range of environmental issues
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Relevant post-graduate experience (ideally within a consultancy environment).
• Whilst this may be limited as the team in Ireland grows there will be a future requirement to act as environment lead, demonstrating visible leadership of staff and fulfil the following:
• Proven track record of developing and upskilling internal teams
• Demonstrable experience in EIA delivery
• Familiarity with other consenting processes
• Strong report writing, verbal and presentation skills and able to review the work of others to ensure quality.
• Relevant environmental / planning degree or equivalent experience, Chartered
• Experience of leadership within multidisciplinary teams.
• Evidence of successfully driving business growth
• Comprehensive knowledge of the EIA process and environmental technical expertise.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance