Senior Sustainability Advisor - Expanded

Senior Sustainability Advisor

📍 Location: Sizewell C, Suffolk
🏢 Employer: Expanded (part of Laing O'Rourke)
⏰ Contract: Full-time, On-site
🚗 Requirement: Driving licence essential (site location)
⚠️ Note: Sponsorship is not available for this role

About the Project

Join Expanded, part of Laing O'Rourke, on one of the UK's most high-profile infrastructure projects: Sizewell C, a new nuclear development on the Suffolk coast. The site sits within an area of outstanding natural beauty and ecological significance, including the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB, Sizewell Marshes SSSI, and the Minsmere to Walberswick Special Protection Area. Protecting the environment and delivering sustainability are at the heart of everything we do here.

The Role

As a Senior Sustainability Advisor, you'll be the environmental specialist on site, working closely with your manager but otherwise operating as the go-to advisor for all sustainability matters. While this is very much an autonomous role, you'll be surrounded by the wider project team, giving you plenty of scope to influence, engage and champion positive change across all areas of delivery.

You don't need prior social or carbon expertise, but a strong interest in both and the ability to drive ideas and influence stakeholders is key.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure all works are planned and delivered with the highest regard for environmental protection, ecology, and biodiversity
• Monitor and report on sustainability performance, including emissions, resource use, and waste reduction
• Identify opportunities to reduce energy use, carbon footprint, and environmental impact across the project
• Advise and support project teams on environmental risk management, ensuring mitigations are implemented effectively
• Engage and influence subcontractors, clients, and the wider workforce to champion sustainability best practice
• Promote innovation in sustainable construction methods, materials, and processes
• Lead or support investigations into environmental incidents and drive corrective action
• Provide sustainability training, briefings, and upskilling for project staff
• Assure compliance with the LOR Environmental and Carbon Management Systems
• Develop a social value approach for the packages and engage the delivery teams 

What We're Looking For

• Passion for sustainability and environmental best practice
• An engaging and confident communicator who can inspire teams, drive ideas forward, and influence stakeholders at every level
• Organised, proactive, and able to prioritise in a fast-paced project environment
• Experience working on infrastructure or high-risk environmental sites (preferred)
• Degree in Environmental Management, Sustainability, or related field (preferred)
• IEMA/IES/IEEM membership (practitioner level preferred)
• Be technically familiar with an extensive range of environmental processes and products, carbon data/ reporting and social value strategies (including, ISO14001, ISO50001 and PAS2080)

What's in it for you

• Competitive salary + car/travel allowance
• Private Medical Insurance
• Enhanced pension & parental leave
• Life, dental, and critical illness cover + income protection
• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Professional development opportunities

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

Apply now or contact Tom Lewandowski (Resourcing Advisor) at tlewandowski@laingorourke.com for an informal chat.
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

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