Description
Our client is seeking a highly experienced and competent Senior Environmental Consultant to join their Advanced Engineering practice, for 6-12 months where you will complement their growing team of safety and asset management experts. The successful candidate will lead the environmental aspects of the projects that our client supports and be expected to act as a link to the environmental capability in other divisions, such as transportation and energy, to ensure our client makes the best use of the capability across the whole company.
The successful candidate will be required to assess the potential environmental impact of defence procurement projects and operations, develop environmental arguments for novel and complex systems and develop policy and environmental management systems. The role is both technically and commercially challenging and the successful candidate will be expected to be able to work independently, manage teams and interact with customers at a high level. Significant experience of the environmental legislation and standards applicable to the defence domain is essential.
Senior Environmental Consultant - Contract - Bristol or Hampshire - Great Rates!
Key Responsibilities:
- Developing and driving innovative solutions to customer problems, the successful candidate will draw on their extensive skills and best practice from a range of domains.
- From time to time the successful candidate will be expected to lead other engineers or environmentalists, maintaining the quality of their work.
- Preparing detailed technical reports and presenting the findings of environmental work to both internal and external customers.
- Actively leading in generating new business, hence developing technical and commercial proposals, giving presentations and managing issues and risks are all part of the role.
- Building sustainable relationships with customers, seeking out future business opportunities and managing these through to new work.
- Leading the development of the environmental capability within the practice and providing a link to the capability in the wider business.
- Undertaking internal project manager responsibilities for environmental projects - understanding customer requirements, developing technical approaches, planning and management of activities and assurance of the outputs.
Key Skills:
- BEng or BSc (Hons) in an environmental discipline or equivalent environmental engineering experience
- Chartered environmentalist status or working towards this.
- Significant experience of working within the defence sector with a platform/equipment focus.
- Knowledge and understanding of Defence Environmental Policy and Regulations, such as POEMS, JSP418 and other environmental standards applicable in the Defence industry.
- Knowledge of environmental legislation & standards and experience in their application.
- Experience of conducting environmental impact studies/risk assessments.
- Experience of creating and maintaining effective environmental management systems.
- An interest in developing new business.
- Strong team-working and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including giving presentations.
- A flexible and adaptable attitude to the role.
Desired Skills:
- Experience of leading environmental projects.
- MSc in an environmental related discipline.
- Experience of working in air or maritime would be a particular advantage.
- Experience in delivering safety management, human factors, training or another area of technical expertise in defence project environments.
- Experience of working across the full defence CADMID cycle.
- Demonstrable experience of managing environment programmes and implementing environmental management systems.
- Trained environmental auditor, with audit experience in a variety of audit types including compliance audits, management system audits, supply chain audits, & technical audits.
- Demonstrable project management skills.
- Business development experience.
- A track record of undertaking business development activities within an environmental consultancy.
- Awareness of sustainability approaches in the Defence industry and more widely.
You will be required to hold a minimum of SC security clearance. If you do not hold an active SC clearance please familiarise yourself with the vetting process before applying.
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Job Role: Senior Environmental Consultant
Location: Bristol or Hampshire
Type: Contract
Duration: 6 - 12 Months
Salary/Rate: Great Rates!
Start Date: ASAP
Clearance: SC Clearance