Environmental Advisor

On-site in London·Added 3 days ago (last checked 16 Oct)

WSP UK

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The role

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Role Purpose

The Environmental Advisor supports the roll-out and consistent application of environmental management practices across the business. The role helps teams understand environmental requirements, raises awareness and provides practical guidance to support compliance and continual improvement.

The role supports the maintenance of Environmental Management System (EMS) documentation, environmental performance reporting, assists with audits and inspections, and helps manage environmental incidents, engagement activities and improvement programmes.

Working as part of the wider UK&I HSEQ team, the role also provides routine health and safety administration, data and coordination support. This includes maintaining records and trackers, supporting performance reporting, coordinating actions and helping with the administration of incidents, inspections, audits, training and HSEQ communications.

Key Accountabilities

Leadership and Business Partnership

Engage with internal teams, project staff, contractors and suppliers by providing tools, templates, guidance and practical support to embed environmental best practice into activities.

Raise the profile of HSEQ across the business through effective communication, engagement, initiatives and training.

Provide flexible support to the wider HSEQ team by contributing to cross-team initiatives, staff engagement activities, campaigns and administrative or coordination tasks as required.

Provide routine health and safety administrative support, including maintaining records, updating trackers and coordinating information and actions.

Environmental Management

Support the maintenance and updating EMS documents, registers, procedures and templates; support implementation activities; and help teams implement legal, regulatory and WSP Global HSEQ requirements.

Carry out routine environmental checks, inspections and observations across offices and project teams to identify risks and improvement opportunities, escalating issues where required.

Support site visits to assess the effectiveness of environmental management across the business.

Assurance, Incidents & Performance

Support the collection, validation and organisation of environmental performance data, including waste, water, energy, emissions, training and incidents, to enable consistent business-wide reporting

Support the Corporate Environmental Manager with managing, investigating and reporting environmental incidents and sharing lessons learnt.

Assist with internal environmental audits of offices, projects, suppliers and contractors by preparing documentation, participating as an audit team member for routine reviews and tracking the close-out of findings.

Assist with the preparation of HSEQ reports, data summaries and supporting information for management meetings and internal reporting.

Culture, Communication & Team Contribution

Lead and support the Office Environmental Champions and engagement with other employee-led groups focused on improving environmental issues at WSP.

Provide practical environmental information and support to teams through communications, engagement initiatives and training.

Support the wider HSEQ team with health and safety communications, campaigns, safety moments, briefings and awareness materials.

Assist with the administration of health, safety and environmental training records and related compliance information.

Key Relationships

Internal: Corporate Environmental Manager, wider HSEQ team, office and project teams and Environmental Champions.

External: Contractors and suppliers.

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Practical understanding of environmental management requirements and the operation of an Environmental Management System.

Practical awareness of general workplace and project health and safety requirements, to provide routine support and escalate technical or higher-risk matters.

Ability to maintain accurate documents, registers, procedures, templates and trackers.

Ability to collect, validate and organise environmental performance data accurately.

Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to provide practical guidance and raise awareness.

Ability to work collaboratively with a range of internal teams, project staff, contractors and suppliers.

Good organisation skills and the ability to manage routine activities, identify gaps and escalate issues appropriately.

Willingness to support office and project inspections, audits, incident investigations, engagement initiatives and wider HSEQ activities.

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