Senior Environment Advisor (5244)

Laing O'Rourke seeks a Senior Environment Advisor to enhance sustainability in construction across projects in Cambridge and Stansted. The role involves driving sustainability initiatives, ensuring compliance with environmental standards, and managing risks. Candidates should have a degree in Environmental Management or related fields, with strong knowledge of environmental processes. The position requires travel to project sites and is based in the St Neots office, making it not a remote job.
Are you passionate about driving environmental sustainability in the construction industry? Do you want to be part of a forward-thinking team within a leading contractor, where you'll have the opportunity to make a real impact? If so, we want to hear from you!

Location: St Neots (Office) + Cambridge & Stansted (Project Sites)

Laing O'Rourke is looking for a Senior Environment Advisor to support two exciting new projects in Cambridge and Stansted. This is a dynamic, roving role, working across our St Neots office and project sites to provide expert environmental guidance and support to our delivery teams.

Your initial projects: You'll join at a pivotal stage, with both projects in their pre-construction phase, giving you the opportunity to influence and contribute to their sustainability strategies from the outset. In Cambridge, you will be helping deliver the new Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital – a cutting-edge facility designed to achieve a BREEAM Excellent rating, and in Stansted you will be contributing to a major development project of one of the UK's busiest airports.

As a Senior Environment Advisor, You Will

✔ Drive sustainability initiatives to support our journey towards becoming a net zero company.

✔ Ensure compliance with contractual, client, and ISO14001 environmental management system (EMS) requirements.

✔ Identify and manage environmental risks and opportunities at both pre-construction and delivery stages.

✔ Engage with statutory bodies to obtain necessary environmental consents.

✔ Provide training and guidance on environmental best practices.

✔ Develop and maintain Construction Environmental Management Plans, identifying relevant risks and opportunities and associated mitigation measures.

✔ Monitor, report, and improve environmental performance through inspections and audits.

✔ Lead environmental incident investigations and drive corrective actions.

✔ Promote initiatives focused on carbon reduction, waste minimisation, and biodiversity protection.

About You

🔹 A passionate advocate for sustainability in the construction industry.

🔹 Strong technical knowledge of environmental processes and assessments (e.g., BREEAM).

🔹 Degree qualified in Environmental Management, Science, or Sustainability (professional membership with IEMA, IES, or CIEEM preferred).

🔹 Familiarity with ISO14001 & ISO50001 compliance; Lead Environmental Auditor qualification is a plus.

🔹 A strategic thinker, driven by innovation and change.

🔹 A collaborative and influential team player, comfortable working across multiple projects and teams.

🔹 Willingness to travel nationally when required

Enhance your career by joining our multi-disciplinary business, supporting some of the biggest projects in the UK. You'll join a brilliant Sustainability team who are lots of fun, have a wealth of knowledge to learn from and will always keep you challenged!

CVs only tell us so much and so do job adverts. We'd welcome an informal chat via Emma Woodall (Senior Resourcing Advisor) to discuss further – ewoodall@laingorourke.com / 07350368883.

About Us:

Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia. Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want, and we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork.

We offer a competitive remuneration package (base salary + car/travel allowance) with access to PMI; enhanced pension and parental leave schemes; Life/Dental/Critical illness insurance and income protection; 33 days holiday inc. bank holidays; professional development opportunities and more!

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com