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About the Role

Help shape one of the UK's largest environmental infrastructure programmes. As Head of Environment, you'll play a central role in ensuring the programme is developed sustainably, environmentally responsibly and in accordance with complex regulatory requirements. This is an opportunity to influence environmental outcomes on a scale few roles can offer.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic environmental direction for the Reservoirs Programme, ensuring environmental outcomes are embedded throughout project development and into the operational phase.
• Oversee delivery of a substantial environmental work programme, ensuring scope, resources, quality, performance and budgets remain aligned to programme objectives.
• Build and maintain influential relationships with key stakeholders including the Environment Agency, Natural England and other statutory consultees, and to work towards resolution of critical strategic environmental issues for the projects.
• Lead assurance of Environmental Impact Assessments, Habitats Regulations Assessments, Water Framework Directive strategies and Biodiversity Net Gain approaches.
• Provide direction and challenge to ensure environmental assessments are robust, proportionate and support a successful DCO outcome.
• Integrate environmental considerations into programme-wide decision-making and influence technical, commercial and planning strategies.
• Lead a team of specialist environmental professionals and work alongside a broad network of advisors, partners and technical experts.

Requirements

• Extensive senior-level experience leading environmental aspects of major infrastructure or Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects.
• Significant experience overseeing Environmental Impact Assessments, permitting and planning approvals.
• Strong understanding of environmental regulation, consenting and stakeholder engagement.
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence regulators, delivery partners and senior stakeholders.
• Experience operating within complex regulated environments.

Location

• London
• Peterborough

Work Type

• Hybrid Working 2-3 days in office weekly
• Full-time
• part-time
• permanent

Experience Level

• Senior-level

Education Level

• Degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Planning, Civil Engineering or a related discipline.

Salary/Compensations

• Circa £115,000, depending on skills and experience

Benefits

• Private health care
• Double-matched pension
• Car allowance
• Life assurance at 8 times salary
• Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary)
• 30 days annual leave – rising with length of service and the ability to buy more
• Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paid paternity / partner leave.
• Opportunity for shared parental pay
• Bonus scheme - up to 25%
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

About the Company

• At Anglian Water, we're delivering the Fens Reservoir and Lincolnshire Reservoir schemes; two nationally significant infrastructure projects that will secure future water supplies, support sustainable growth and enhance environmental resilience across the East of England. Together, they form our multi-billion-pound Reservoirs Programme, the largest and most complex infrastructure development ever undertaken by Anglian Water.

Equal Opportunity

• We value the representation & diversity within our communities. Inclusion is for every one and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.