Environmental Advisor

VolkerRail Ltd is one of the UK’s leading multidisciplinary railway infrastructure contractors, with a history in the construction market dating back to 1935. The company has extensive experience delivering heavy and light rail projects for public and private sector clients, from small contracts to major joint ventures and alliances exceeding £1bn. VolkerRail focuses on improving transport links across the UK, delivering safe, high-quality infrastructure that connects communities and leaves a positive local legacy. Its business is structured into Major Projects and Specialist Businesses, providing expertise in signalling, track construction and maintenance, electrification and power, piling, ground investigation, and track welding, supported by in-house design teams and a dedicated plant division. VolkerRail is known for strong performance and aims to exceed expectations in every project.

The Environmental Advisor is a full-time role based in Glasgow and involve frequent travel to project sites across Scotland. The role involves providing environmental guidance to project teams, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, standards, and company policies throughout the project lifecycle.

The Role's key duties include

• Providing support to the VRSB Environment Manager to further our corporate and framework environmental and social value objectives.
• Providing support and guidance to project and delivery teams with regards to environmental management, in particular waste, pollution control, noise & nuisance, ecology & biodiversity, carbon & energy.
• Producing project environmental management plans and documentation in both design and construction phases, ensuring their effective briefing and cascade of controls through site documentation, and assurance through HSQES Inspections and Audits.
• Facilitating ‘designing out’ workshops with project stakeholders, undertaking whole-life carbon assessments using the RSSB Carbon Management Tool, producing carbon delivery plans, and following up on carbon reduction actions in accordance with our internal systems aligned to PAS 2080.
• Attending internal and client facing project meetings to report on environmental performance, share & learn, and collaborate to exceed expectations in delivery.
• Responsible for ensuring that project and delivery teams comply with both VolkerRail’s internal management systems, legislation and client requirements, including the collection, analysis and reporting of data to measure performance against objectives and targets – driving the business to continuously improve.

About you

You will be self-motivated with a pro-active approach and have experience of working under pressure and meeting tight deadlines. Integrity, problem solving, communication and good interpersonal skills are a key requirement for this role. The candidate must have an environment or science-related degree or equivalent. They must either hold, or be working towards, practitioner level membership of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA). The candidate shall ideally have the following experience/skill set:

• 2-3 years previous experience in a similar role is a requirement, ideally within the rail or construction sector.
• Practical experience of effective implementation of ISO14001.
• Experience of liaising with regulatory authorities, the general public and the client is essential.
• Production of site-specific waste management plans and environmental management plans, including the identification of significant aspects and impacts and implementing Best Practicable Means.
• Ability to produce contract environmental performance data and undertake environmental inspections/audits to ensure, where necessary, corrective plans are successfully developed and implemented.
• Driven to find sustainable solutions and realise them through strong collaboration with a multidisciplinary team.
• Good communication and organisational skills.

If your past experience doesn’t match perfectly with every requirement of the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for us.