Sustainability Manager
Sustainability Manager
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We have an exciting opportunity for an individual to join us and play a key role in driving Wates resource efficiency targets by engaging with individual business units bid design and project teams as well as procurement managers supply chain partners and the wider SHEQ and sustainability experience may be from any discipline that has worked within or across the value chain to tackle resource efficiency and waste challenges in the built environment. This role will allow you to excel in liberating your technical expertise to realise efficiencies and deliver opportunities that will eradicate waste from our projects whilst sustaining our compliance with UK legislation and standards.
Reporting to the Wates Property Services Head of SHEQ this role will support the implementation of our new Environmental Sustainability Plans resource efficiency theme ambitions by working with our project teams and procurement managers to drive resource hierarchy led outcomes across our business.
You will have ownership for business processes relating to resource efficiency and for supporting strategic tenders and bids in these disciplines. This will involve providing technical support as well as performance data analysis where required. The role will work closely with our IT and Data Analytics team to automate performance reporting on our progress.
The role will analyse evaluate identify and deliver key areas for improvement develop KPIs to track performance and drive material sustainable outcomes.
Key Accountabilities for the role include:
- Lead on the engagement with business units on resource efficiency related projects trials and programmes with a particular focus on materials reuse recycling recovery and avoidance of waste. Undertake site visits to provide advice and guidance to project teams.
- Drive the practical adoption of resource efficient solutions by working collaboratively with our design consultants and procurement teams as well as our supply chain partners across the value chain.
- Develop a resource efficiency strategy to deliver the hierarchy ambitions as well as sustain waste Duty of Care compliance working with our waste and logistics partners
- Develop performance metrics for managing progress against our resource efficiency targets and automate reporting across the hierarchy interfaces.
- Develop processes and systems for projects to drive resource efficient outcomes to optimise reuse and meet 2045 zero waste ambitions.
- Represent the business on key industry forums and other relevant external platforms ensuring Wates remains at the leading edge of resource efficiency and circular economy platform.
- Provide technical expertise on materials recovery resource efficiency approaches and waste legislation to inform current and future strategic direction.
- Develop collateral for large tenders on resource efficiency and waste performance related topics.
- Update the business on key legal and policy changes on circular economy resource efficiency and wasterelated topics.
- Be a flexible and multidisciplinary member of the Group Environment team assisting colleagues with work relating to other key issues such as carbon & energy waste & resource efficiency and water & nutrient neutrality as well as compliance to protect the built and natural environment.
We are looking foryou to have a good knowledge of sustainability impacts on and from the environment within the built environment construction and property services (incl retrofit and refurb) sectors and expert knowledge of waste legislation resource efficiency and modern methods of construction solutions. Good knowledge of international standards such as ISO 14001:2015 and ISO2400 and circular economy are desirable. Experience of procurement processes familiarity of the supplier market and what solutions can be readily deployed would be ideal. We would want you to understand UK policy environmental legislation regulatory frameworks technical standards and experience in briefing senior managers on changes in legislation or policy and how these might affect their areas of work.
To be successful in this roleyou will be postgraduate degree qualified in Environmental Science or Management (or equivalent) and a professional Member of a relevant Society for the Environment body (e.g. CIWM IEMA etc) with preference given to Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) candidates. You will also have excellent presentation facilitation and communication skills and the ability to produce communication materials and campaigns that will drive sustainable outcomes. You will have excellent influencing skills and be able to explain complex information to enable key stakeholders to act. Strong analytical skills with good attention to detail are essential.
Given the nature of this position you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicants criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally certain roles may be subject to additional preemployment checks.
To learn more about the checks included in this process please click on the following link: National Security Vetting
This role can be based out of one of our offices Nationwide.
Work for Wates
Wates is one of the UKs leading familyowned development building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago we have a proud legacy in the built environment.
We are driven by our purpose reimagining places for people to thrive and our three promises:
Thriving places working with customers partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable inclusive and full of opportunity.
Thriving planet protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
Thriving people creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included invested in and treated with care.
We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.
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