Overview
As a Sustainability and Senior Environment Advisor, you will support sustainability and environmental initiatives across the Sea Link Project and wider southern region. You will ensure compliance with relevant regulations, standards and company policies, while providing environmental and sustainability leadership to SHESQ teams and driving continual improvement.
Reporting to the EA2 Environment Manager, you will work closely with the southern E&S team and SHESQ Managers and Advisors, supporting a range of projects and frameworks across the region. The role will involve regular travel to Sea Link project sites across Kent and Suffolk.
What You’ll Do
- Lead regional sustainability and environmental performance by implementing and continually improving sustainability strategies, supporting regional goals and KPIs, and promoting a culture of continual improvement, accountability and best practice.
- Ensure environmental compliance and risk management by monitoring relevant legislation, regulations and standards, assessing their impact on operations, and implementing appropriate controls and mitigation measures to prevent pollution and minimise environmental risks.
- Drive environmental assurance and incident management through inspections and assessments, identifying impacts, vulnerabilities and opportunities for improvement, and overseeing the investigation of incidents and near misses, including root-cause analysis and corrective and preventive actions.
- Provide specialist advice, training and support to operational teams, ensuring contractual and legal requirements are met while delivering sustainability and environmental training and initiatives that build awareness, competence and engagement.
- Build strong stakeholder and customer relationships by working with project teams, Directors, SHESQ colleagues and regional customers to promote sustainability goals and best practice, ensure environmental and sustainability commitments are met, and accurately collate, analyse and report performance data in line with company, customer and regulatory requirements.
- Support the delivery and growth of the business by contributing to tender submissions and business development, working collaboratively across frameworks and projects to ensure development plans and performance are effectively managed, and working with Operations to identify and meet future resourcing needs.
What You’ll Bring
- Relevant experience: Proven experience in an environmental and sustainability advisory role, preferably within the construction, infrastructure, utilities or engineering sectors.
- Technical expertise: Strong knowledge and practical experience of environmental regulations, standards and best practice, including ISO 14001 and relevant environmental legislation. Experience in environmental audits, inspections and risk assessments, as well as incident investigation and root cause analysis methodologies.
- Qualifications: A relevant Bachelor’s degree or higher, such as Environmental Science or Sustainability Management, and/or IEMA Practitioner level or above.
- Strong professional skills: Excellent analytical, problem-solving and project management skills, with the ability to prioritise effectively, manage multiple projects and deliver results. Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Collaborative leadership: A proven ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams, including coaching and supporting junior team members to develop their careers. A commitment to continuous learning, professional development and staying up to date with evolving sustainability issues and solutions.
- Flexibility to travel: Willingness and ability to travel across project locations and throughout the region, with occasional travel outside the region as required. A valid driving licence is essential.
About OCU Group
At OCU Group, we don’t just deliver infrastructure – we help power modern life.
As one of the UK’s fastest-growing utility and infrastructure businesses, we deliver complex, nationally critical projects across power, energy transition, water, telecoms, and digital infrastructure. Over the last five years, OCU has grown five-fold to a £1.1bn organisation, expanding both organically and through strategic acquisitions across the UK, Australia, New Zealand and India.
Our growth is driven by ambitious people, operational excellence, and a commitment to doing things properly. We work on projects that genuinely matter by supporting the UK’s energy transition, strengthening essential infrastructure, and helping build more sustainable communities for the future.
Whether you’re an experienced professional looking to take ownership of major projects and influence delivery at scale, or someone starting your career through an apprenticeship, graduate programme, or placement route, OCU offers real opportunity to grow, develop, and make an impact.
We are building a business where high performance, collaboration, innovation, and accountability sit at the centre of our culture. Our people are trusted to lead, encouraged to challenge thinking, and supported to continuously develop their skills and careers.
At OCU, you won’t just join a growing business, you’ll help shape it.
Our Culture & Values
At OCU, our values are at the heart of everything we do. We care about safety, lead with integrity, strive to be better every day, make a positive impact, and deliver to grow, together, as One Company United.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
At OCU Group, we believe diversity, inclusion, and belonging are fundamental to building stronger teams, better ideas, and a more successful business. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels valued and supported.
As part of our commitment to fairness and equality, candidates may be asked to complete an equal opportunities monitoring form during the recruitment process. This information is used for monitoring purposes only and plays no part in hiring decisions.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and are committed to offering interviews to candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions who meet the essential criteria for the role.
To ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to join our team, please inform us if you require any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment and interview process is, by emailing recruitment@ocugroup.com.
