Environment Advisor

Salary Birmingham: “Base salary: £32,050pa to c£37,700pa depending on skills and experience

In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top of base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As an Environment Advisor you’ll support the Head of Environment Route-wide in discharging their duties. The role specifically supports through managing special environmental projects, preparing management information, presentation material and undertaking secretariate duties at senior management/stakeholder meeting.

About the role:

- Secretariate duties to support the Head of Environment Route-wide at both senior internal and external meetings

- Manipulation and preparation of environment management information for use in correspondence and presentations

- Preparation of presentation material and environmental reporting dashboards required for business reporting and external meetings

- Lead on specific environmental projects as directed by the Head of Environment Route-wide to facilitate the support TSDD provides to Delivery Units

- Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work. Support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

About You:

Skills:

- Problem solving: ability to identify complex problems, review, analyse and interpret a wide range of information and evaluate options with support.

- Decision making: ability to gather and synthesise information and, with support, identify options and apply judgement based on logic and reason with a variety of analytical approaches to provide relevant information to support decision making.

- Technical capability: appreciation of the full range of environmental technical specialism’s deployed across project, and work with these to provide information that supports decision making.

- Communication skills: ability to communicate and convey discipline-specific technical ideas to colleagues

- Communication skills: confidence in speaking with senior managers or groups across HS2 to obtain information and/or convey issues or problems

- Communication skills: ability to collate and present complex technical data in clear and concise manner

- Organisation skills: excellent time management skills with the ability to manage multiple competing tasks to time and quality.

Knowledge:

- Awareness of the HS2 Project

- Awareness of HS2 Act and appreciation of wider environmental legislation relevant to the Project

- Membership of an appropriate professional institution or the equivalent experience

Experience:

- Experience of working within multi-disciplinary engineering and environmental teams on large complex major projects/ programmes within a complex infrastructure programme

- Experience of working within a fast paced environment where there are competing project, engineering and environmental demands that have cost and schedule implications.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX2btaDOBK8

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.