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About the Role
Ferrovial Construction is seeking an experienced Environment & Sustainability Manager to provide environmental, carbon, and sustainability leadership for major infrastructure and asset renewal works at Heathrow Airport. The role involves implementing environmental management systems, sustainability requirements, and carbon reduction processes, collaborating with various stakeholders to embed these principles from design through to handover.
Responsibilities
- Lead environmental and sustainability management across Heathrow projects, ensuring compliance with contract requirements, Ferrovial Construction procedures, Heathrow Employer’s Requirements and applicable UK legislation.
- Develop, maintain and implement Environmental Management Plans, Site Waste Management Plans, Carbon Management requirements, Energy Management arrangements, Biodiversity Management Plans and associated project documentation.
- Support the delivery of Heathrow’s Connecting People and Planet strategy by embedding carbon reduction, resource efficiency, responsible procurement, biodiversity enhancement and environmental protection into design and construction activities.
- Provide leadership, advice and technical support to project managers, construction teams, designers, engineers, procurement teams and subcontractors on environmental, carbon and sustainability matters.
- Ensure environmental controls are incorporated into work planning, method statements, risk assessments, permits and site briefings before works commence.
- Manage environmental permits, licences, consents and approvals, coordinating with Heathrow, regulators, statutory bodies and specialist consultants where required.
- Lead and support environmental inspections, audits, assurance visits and compliance reviews, ensuring findings are communicated, actions are closed and lessons learned are embedded.
- Monitor project performance against environmental and sustainability KPIs, including waste diversion, carbon emissions, material use, energy consumption, fuel use, water management, biodiversity and supply chain performance.
- Lead reporting to Heathrow and internal senior management, ensuring accurate and timely submission of environmental, carbon and sustainability data through relevant systems and trackers.
- Identify and implement carbon reduction opportunities in line with PAS 2080, including the application of the carbon reduction hierarchy and collaboration with designers and supply chain partners.
- Promote the use of low-carbon materials, circular economy principles, waste prevention, reuse and recycling across the project lifecycle.
- Support sustainable procurement by ensuring subcontractors understand and comply with environmental, carbon, energy and sustainability obligations.
- Investigate environmental incidents, near misses and non-conformances, ensuring evidence is gathered, root causes are identified and corrective actions are completed.
- Promote a positive environmental culture across site teams through briefings, toolbox talks, awareness campaigns, training and visible leadership.
- Act as a mentor and technical lead for the Environment & Sustainability Team.
- Drive innovation, best practice and continuous improvement across Heathrow projects, capturing achievements, lessons learned and case studies where appropriate.
Requirements
- Proven experience in an environmental and sustainability management role within construction, infrastructure or major project delivery.
- Strong working knowledge of UK environmental legislation, environmental management systems and construction environmental controls.
- Experience implementing ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 requirements within a project or operational environment.
- Knowledge of PAS 2080, carbon management, carbon reporting and low-carbon design and construction principles.
- Experience preparing and reviewing environmental and sustainability documentation, including EMPs, SWMPs, carbon reports, sustainability briefs, risk registers and environmental procedures.
- Strong understanding of waste management, resource efficiency, circular economy, pollution prevention, water management, energy management, biodiversity and environmental permitting.
- Confident communicator with the ability to influence site teams, senior managers, designers, clients, regulators and supply chain partners.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to manage competing priorities, meet deadlines and drive performance across multiple work packages.
- Commercial awareness and an understanding of how environmental and sustainability performance supports safe, efficient and responsible project delivery.
- Competent in Microsoft Office applications and environmental reporting systems such as SmartWaste, Once Click LCA, inspection trackers or similar digital platforms.
Skills
- Environmental Management Systems
- Sustainability
- Carbon Management
- ISO 14001
- ISO 50001
- PAS 2080
- Waste Management
- Resource Efficiency
- Circular Economy
- Pollution Prevention
- Water Management
- Energy Management
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Permitting
- Microsoft Office
- Environmental Reporting Systems
Location
- Heathrow Airport
Work Type
- Site based
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced
Education Level
- Degree or equivalent qualification in environmental management, sustainability, engineering, construction, planning, ecology or a related discipline.
- Membership of CIWEM, CIWM, CIEEM, ISEP or another relevant professional body is desirable.
- CSCS card
Benefits
- Global presence, local impact
- Collaborative excellence
- Inclusive Culture
- Career growth
- Compelling benefits and employee wellbeing
- Productivity tools
About the Company
- Ferrovial is a global leader in infrastructure, solving complex problems and generating positive outcomes.
- Listed on Nasdaq - 100 Index (US) and IBEX 35 (Spain).
- Member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and FTSE4Good.
- Operates in over 15 countries with a workforce of over 22,000 professionals.
- Business units include Highways, Airports, Construction, and Energy.
- Ferrovial Construction is internationally recognized for its capacity to design and build civil engineering and construction projects, mainly in large transportation infrastructure.
Equal Opportunity
- Ferrovial is an equal opportunity employer. We treat all jobs applications equally, regardless of gender, color, race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, covered veteran status or protected genetic information (each, a “Protected Class”), or any other protected class in accordance with applicable laws.