Environmental Advisor

Job description

Your Impact:

At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs' greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you'd expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We're happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the Opportunity

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authorities (NDA) Programme and Project Partners (PPP) contract model, allows the skills and expertise of both Sellafield Ltd and their Lot Partners to be combined to deliver a step change in major project delivery

The Special Nuclear Materials (SNM) Future State Programme is one of the most complex challenges facing the NDA in dealing with the UK's nuclear legacy is managing the stockpile of separated civil plutonium.

The SNM Future State Programme will deliver capabilities to ensure the right material, is in the right package, in the right store to maintain the safe and secure storage of plutonium. To deliver the programme mission there are several tranches that must be delivered. The SNM Future Storage tranche will focus on providing additional modern standard, resilient storage capacity to store 100 Year Packages until the final disposition solution is implemented.

Role Responsibilities

• Provision of environmental management guidance and support, working collaboratively with the project team to produce environmental deliverables.
• Provide technical advice to the project team on regulatory compliance, sustainability and other environmental subjects.
• Support the Environmental Manager and Sustainability Lead in the identification and development of sustainability opportunities, to develop the project's contribution to Carbon Net Zero and to meet permitting requirements in delivering the project using Best Available Techniques.
• Provide environmental assurance within the project, including contribution to assurance reviews and delivery of Environmental Audits
• Assist with the development and delivery of land quality assessments, to support the Town and Country Planning Application process and Sellafield Ltd requirements.
• Draw on, and share, relevant Learning From Experience (LFE).
• Support the Environmental Manager in developing and delivering a programme to enhance the environmental culture and the environmental awareness within the project/ study.

Here's What You'll Need:

• Broad knowledge of environmental management, including the areas of land quality assessment, sustainability and environmental permitting, with specialist knowledge in at least one of these.
• Proven ability of working collaboratively within a project team.
• Highly preferable to have familiarity with the Sellafield site, especially experience of high-hazard related projects and plants.
• Highly preferable to have familiarity with the Environmental Permitting Regulations, including Sellafield's EPR permits.

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we're more connected, and if we are diverse, we're more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you're pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women's - find out more about our employee networks here.

Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role

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