Senior Environmental Advisor

Transport for London (TfL) are one of Britain’s key city Local Authorities. Responsible for the city’s infrastructure which includes Highways, Major Structures, Rail, River Transport and supporting technology.

Many of their assets are reaching their end-of-life status and require substantial remedials or full refurbishment, additionally TFL are keen to embrace modern technology to reduce carbon and energy requirements and deliver a sustainable, clean city.

Costain under a number of frameworks support TfL in their expansion and sustainability and are of their major providers. With exciting new projects for TFL Rail such as South Kensington Upgrade and Step Free Access.

To support the Contract Environmental functions, provide, and support Environmental solutions and enable the Contract / Operational Teams to implement the Group SHE Management System.

To build and maintain relationships with all stakeholders, whilst providing an independent and objective view of SHE Performance on the Contract.

The role centres around delivering E&S of the framework, but will work closely, collaboratively and provide support where necessary with the Health and Safety function, collectively known as the SHE Team.

Key tasks will involve:

• On site support
• Running sustainable workshops with all stakeholders for delivery of sustainable outcomes
• Liasing with client, supply chain, and contract teams to achieve E&S outcomes
• Implementation of the E&S management system across the framework

Support in pre-mobilisation ensuring necessary environment assessments and risk reduction have been undertaken

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

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