Overview
Overall Target of the Position
- Lead and manage in the most efficient manner the implementation of Skye Project Environmental & Sustainability.
- Implement and maintain Environmental & Sustainability Plans, ensuring compliance with all relevant statutory, regulatory, contractual and the company requirements.
- Liaison with Client, Statutory Bodies and Contractors.
- Define and monitor actions to improve Environmental & Sustainability Performance in Construction & Commissioning and to reduce likelihood and severity of Environmental events and Skye Project ESG breaches.
Tasks & Responsibilities
- Management and implementation of environmental project requirements.
- Provision of required environmental plans.
- Lead and develop environmental strategy for compliance approach with Skye Project.
- Delivery of program of environmental works, inclusive of, but not limited to, surveys, pre-construction mitigation, monitoring of mitigation, watching briefs, and exclusion periods.
- Provision and delivery of environmental communication and training plan.
- Environmental monitoring and auditing.
- Assist in recruiting of specialized personnel e.g. ecologist, hydrologist, archaeologist, ornithologist, noise specialist.
- Manage all ongoing programs and action plans implemented for the protection of the environment, including permits for air emissions, hazardous waste management, and wastewater management.
- Ensure full implementation of GE standards and procedures at site (EHS Directives, Work Instructions and Guidelines, EHS Roadmap standard, etc.).
- Monitor fulfilment of Environmental contractual requirements established with the Subcontractors.
- Ensure that all site Environmental events (pollution incidents, near-misses, spills, etc.) are recorded, reported, investigated and analyzed in due time to prevent recurrence.
- Monitor quantity and quality of the site Environmental inspections carried out by the site personnel.
- Define and implement an Environmental Subcontractor audit program to monitor compliance with all relevant statutory, regulatory, contractual and the company requirements.
- Monitor fulfilment of EHS contractual requirements established with the Subcontractors.
- Support and drive to establish sustainability management plans for Skye Project with the sustainability guidelines, processes & frameworks.
- Lead data collection, internal verification, coordination
- Lead/coordinate/support decarbonization and Sustainability efforts in GSI operations and value chain.
- Secure internal Skye project stakeholder engagement / alignment / buy into Sustainability initiatives.
- Coordinate deployment of Skye project specific Sustainability strategy, track and report progress to key stakeholders.
- Collation of Sustainability data.
- Recording of Social Value initiatives.
Profile
- At least 8 years of experience.
- IEMA ( Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment) Full membership of IEMA + Chartered environmentalist.
- Membership of a recognized professional body e.g IEMA, CIEEM, CIWEM, SocEnv.
- Experience with and knowledge of independent standards organizations and certification programs such as ISO 14001, ISO 45001, etc.
- A degree in business management, Sustainability, environmental engineering or other academic field from an accredited college or university discipline.
- Experience in GRID industry or in power generation industry.
- Be fully conversant in Scottish and UK consenting and environmental legislation.
- Good computer skill using MS office (word, excel, power point).
- International EHS regulatory knowledge /qualification as required.
- Excellent interpersonal and oral and written communication skills; integrative team working style, able to work into a multi-cultural environment.
- Problem solving and root cause identification skills.
- Ability to work with cross-functional and cross-business teams.
- High proficiency in English (oral & written).
- Ability to make decisions with limited or conflicting data and manage multiple transactions and priorities simultaneously.
