Environmental Manager (A428)

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Skanska
Description and requirements

Skanska, a leading construction company and developer, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build for a better society. Known for major projects like the Gherkin and Crossrail, A14, Heron Tower, Barts and the Royal London Hospital, we are creating, upgrading and maintaining the country’s buildings and infrastructure. Drawing on our Scandinavian heritage, we are green, innovative and progressive. We bring together people and technology, helping to make our industry safer and more collaborative.

We are now looking to recruit an Environmental Manager for our A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet Improvement scheme. The purpose of the Scheme is to address the problems of congestion, poor journey time reliability and poor resilience against incidents between the Black Cat and Caxton Gibbet roundabouts. The Scheme seeks to address these problems through the construction of a new 10 mile dual 2-lane carriageway from west of the A421 / A1 Black Cat roundabout through to east of the A428/A1198 Caxton Gibbet roundabout.

PURPOSE: To provide construction support to the environmental lead during detailed design into construction on a major highways project (A428)

• Assist in the review of DCO (development consent order) documentation (review of environmental documentation e.g., environmental statement, flood modelling, noise modelling, ecology surveys etc.)
• Provide written environmental reports, management plans and strategies as needed.
• Provide advice, support and assistance to operational and project personnel to enable them to deliver and manage their environmental and sustainable responsibilities and objectives.
• Assist the A428 environmental lead and wider Infrastructure environmental team in any best practice initiatives and delivering ad-hoc improvement projects.
• Assist in the development and delivery of suitable environmental and sustainability training for all project staff.
• Represent and promote the Environment Enabling Function in internal and external meetings, workshops, management reviews and forums – communicating best practice standards and initiatives

We are looking for:

• Degree level in appropriate Environmental or relevant discipline
• Substantiated construction industry experience or relevant environmental experience in a similar sector
• Minimum Practitioner Membership with IEMA or similar professional membership
• Full driving licence and willingness to travel across projects/ contracts in region
• Competent IT skills

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska

Flexible working

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us:

Closing date

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.