Senior Sustainability & Assurance Advisor (South)

Sector: Rail / Civil Engineering

Location: Pontyclun (South Wales) or Swanley (Kent)

Region: South Region

Join a Business Where Sustainability Matters

Are you an experienced sustainability professional looking to make a meaningful impact across major rail and civil engineering infrastructure projects?

We're seeking a Senior Sustainability & Assurance Advisor to join our established SHEQ team, supporting projects and frameworks throughout the South Region. This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in embedding sustainability, environmental best practice, climate resilience and assurance activities across a diverse portfolio of rail and civil engineering projects. This advert has been developed in line with the existing Sustainability & Assurance recruitment approach and role expectations.

About Us

We are a leading engineering and infrastructure organisation delivering complex maintenance, renewal and enhancement projects across the UK's transport and infrastructure sectors.

Our work includes:

• Rail infrastructure and station improvements
• Bridges, footbridges and structural renewals
• Earthworks and geotechnical projects
• Drainage and flood resilience schemes
• Lineside civil engineering works
• Trackside infrastructure and asset maintenance projects

Working closely with clients including Network Rail and other major infrastructure stakeholders, we are committed to delivering projects safely, responsibly and sustainably whilst creating long-term value for the communities and environments in which we operate.

The Opportunity

As Senior Sustainability & Assurance Advisor, you will provide specialist sustainability and assurance support to operational teams across the South Region, helping ensure projects are delivered in accordance with environmental legislation, client requirements and company standards.

Working closely with project teams, designers, clients and supply chain partners, you will help drive improvements in environmental performance, support carbon reduction and social value initiatives, and ensure sustainability considerations are embedded throughout the project lifecycle.

You will form part of a wider team of sustainability and assurance professionals and work closely with the Head of Sustainability to support the continued development of sustainability best practice across the business.

Key Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing expert environmental, sustainability and assurance advice to operational and project teams.
• Supporting the delivery of sustainability strategies, objectives and improvement plans across the South Region.
• Ensuring compliance with relevant environmental legislation, client requirements and company procedures.
• Developing, implementing and monitoring Project Sustainability Plans and Sustainability Registers.
• Supporting delivery of sustainability, climate resilience and carbon reduction initiatives.
• Identifying opportunities to improve environmental performance and resource efficiency across projects.
• Monitoring and reporting sustainability KPIs and project performance metrics.
• Supporting waste, energy, carbon and environmental data collection and reporting activities.
• Undertaking sustainability assurance activities, audits and site inspections.
• Supporting environmental permit applications and regulatory approvals where required.
• Assisting with environmental incident investigations and the implementation of corrective actions.
• Providing sustainability training, guidance and awareness to operational teams.
• Supporting project teams with sustainability requirements during design, planning and delivery phases.
• Working collaboratively with clients, regulators, stakeholders and supply chain partners to achieve positive sustainability outcomes.

About You

We're looking for a proactive and passionate sustainability professional who can confidently engage with operational teams and influence positive environmental outcomes.

You will be:

• An effective communicator with the ability to build strong relationships across all levels of the organisation.
• Passionate about sustainable development, environmental stewardship and continuous improvement.
• Comfortable working independently across multiple projects and locations.
• Organised and able to manage competing priorities within a fast-paced project environment.
• Detail-oriented with a strong commitment to compliance, assurance and best practice.
• A collaborative team player who can work effectively with operational, engineering and client-facing teams.
• Confident undertaking site visits and engaging directly with project delivery teams.

Essential

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience in a Sustainability, Environment or Assurance role within construction, civil engineering, infrastructure or rail.
• Relevant qualification such as Degree, Diploma, HNC or HND in an Environmental, Sustainability or related discipline.
• Experience working within a project delivery environment.
• Membership of IEMA or an equivalent professional body.
• Full UK Driving Licence.
• PTS certification or willingness to maintain rail competence requirements.

Desirable

• Experience within the rail sector.
• Knowledge of Network Rail sustainability and environmental requirements.
• Experience supporting carbon reduction, climate resilience, circular economy or broader ESG initiatives.
• Understanding of environmental permitting processes.
• Internal or external auditing experience.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary, dependent upon experience.
• Company car or car allowance.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with service.
• Up to 3 volunteer days per year.
• Company contributory pension scheme.
• Life assurance.
• Medicash Health Cash Plan and Rewards.
• Ongoing professional development and training opportunities.
• Structured career progression pathways.
• Employee forums and wellbeing initiatives.
• A safe, inclusive and supportive working environment.

The Company

Why AmcoGiffen?

You will be joining a reputable and firmly established, engineering contractor operating nationally in rail, civils and engineering markets. AmcoGiffen are renowned in the market as a specialist civil, building, mechanical and electrical renewals and maintenance business with ongoing and successful projects and frameworks across the country, you will become part of our expert outfit.

AmcoGiffen has a wealth of experience working on sensitive, live assets in highly regulated environments, we deliver exceptional peace of mind for our customers, creating and maintaining assets across a growing range of high-quality public and private sectors. These include rail, power generation, electricity distribution, flood defence, aviation, waterways and much more.

Diversity & Inclusion at AmcoGiffen

We value collective expertise, but also the spark that one person can bring. As one of us, you can be you, because your individuality is an asset to our business and the communities in which we work and represent.

We are working hard as part of the civil engineering and construction industry, to improve diversity & inclusion. Our Diversity and inclusion journey at AmcoGiffen, is constantly evolving and is designed to break down barriers and promote the principles of a diverse workforce through multiple channels. This includes delivering training, raising awareness, regular forums and sharing our engagement calendar of activities and events to encourage participation at all levels throughout our organisation.

Diversity & Inclusion is embodied throughout our SPIRIT core Business values and lies at the heart of our culture of Safety, Professionalism, Innovation, Respect, Integrity and Teamwork.

AmcoGiffen is an Equal Opportunities Employer, offering challenging, worthwhile careers to everyone and is pro-actively committed to improving our understanding year on year to foster a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees as well as for the customers and communities in which we serve and operate within. It doesn’t matter to us what your age, disability, employment status, gender, health, marital status, sexual preference, membership or non-membership of a trade union, nationality, race, religion or social class are, or indeed any other personal characteristics not directly related to the relevant job. Anyone who meets the requirements of the job is eligible for employment with AmcoGiffen.

Health & Wellbeing

Operating from a people first perspective we support safety and wellbeing in the workplace as a priority. We have large number of colleagues that are trained and qualified mental health first aiders to support and listen where appropriate. We enrol all of the AmcoGiffen family onto an employee assistance programme which provides 24 hour, 7 days a week counselling and advice services.

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