Costain Group PLC
About The Role
Working with our complex delivery projects to ensure they are set-up to quantify (baseline), monitor and reduce the carbon emissions in line with our Climate Change Action Plan. This is a unique position which will allow the position holder to have significant influence over the sustainability and carbon footprint of our solutions working across a range of teams, sectors and clients. This position is based remotely with nationwide travel required.
Key Responsibilities
Provide technical carbon support to operations and SHE staff to enable the production and implementation of carbon management plans, which will include accurate baselining, monitoring and reduction of strategies across scopes 1,2 and 3
Ensure projects are set-up to succeed regarding carbon management and reduction, and responsibilities are clear across disciplines and the supply chain in accordance with PAS2080
Assist in establishing Costain as a carbon leader in complex delivery and play a key role in helping to meet Costain’s Climate Change Action Plan targets
Understand and promote the Costain Climate Change Action Plan to ensure it is understood and assist in enabling its implementation across all disciplines and sectors
Work with supporting functions such as design, commercial, procurement, BIM and estimating to simplify carbon data management and reduction
Assist in the preparation and implementation of environmental/ carbon workshops and training courses and ensure that staff, clients, and suppliers (including designers) with specific responsibilities have received the appropriate training
Work with Costain’s advisory/ consultancy staff to ensure best practice and performance can be promoted to wider clients.
Assist in producing environmental and carbon performance data performance reports, to feed into SHE Dashboards
Work with the SHE WLT to support external environment accreditations (PAS2080, ISO14001:2015 etc)
About You
Strong influencing skills and ability to build relationships with senior internal staff, clients and the supply chain.
Professional, confident with strong project management capabilities.
Strong data, research and analytical skills using excel, Power BI, LCA software etc.
Knowledge of infrastructure clients carbon targets and tools, and how to exceed their expectations.
Experience of complex delivery projects and the relationships between client, designer and contractor.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and comfortable presenting at conferences and events.
The ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
A passion for the environment and sustainability.
Able to work remotely and travel including occasionally overnight stays, when required.
Full driving licence
Qualifications:
Degree in sustainability/ carbon/ climate change or built environment subject or similar
PIEMA or equivalent
Relevant industry experience, including management and leadership experience
About Costain
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.
Your application
Should you require any adjustments to support you in your application, please do not hesitate to contact us: [email protected]
We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.
We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.
To find out more about our Inclusion strategy, please visit our ED&I page:
https://www.costain.com/our-culture/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/
Right to Work & Security Checks
Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you. For all roles, we’ll carry out a criminal record check and we’ll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.
For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance). To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.
Closing date
Please note that Costain reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend at you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.
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