About Our Client
Our client is a Health and Safety Consultancy and have been working in the Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental industry for over 18 years covering many different sectors. They have a diverse range of clients, and pride themselves on providing a first-class service. They look after organisations and businesses of any shape and size, and offer practical and innovative solutions keeping them safe, compliant and profitable.
They are looking for a proactive and highly skilled Environmental Manager to join the STEP fusion programme, responsible for embedding Design for Environment (DfE) and environmental excellence into the development of a first of a kind fusion power plant.
Reporting to the Head of Engineering Assurance, the role ensures environmental considerations are proactively integrated into engineering, design, programme governance, and delivery decision making.
The postholder will provide authoritative environmental leadership shaping solutions that minimise environmental impact across the full lifecycle, from concept design through to decommissioning.
What Our Client Can Offer You:
Permanent
Full-Time
Location: Based at West Burton or Culham
Opportunity to play a key role in improving the safety of the UK rail network
Professional development pathways and support toward Chartership
Flexible working arrangements where applicable
A collaborative and safety first working culture
Pay: £80,000 to £90,000 per year
Schedule:
Monday to Friday with requirement to travel between sites
Benefits:
Car Allowance
On-site parking
Company events
Company pension
Private medical insurance
Staff Wellbeing Day each year
Additional days leave for your birthday
Sick Pay (after qualifying period)
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the development and continual refinement of the STEP Environmental Case, ensuring alignment with design maturity and regulatory expectations.
Embed DfE principles into engineering workflows, design reviews, requirements management, and system level decision making.
Lead environmental hazard identification (ENVIDs), influence mitigation strategies, and champion opportunities for environmental enhancement.
Direct environmental modelling, lifecycle impact assessments, and Best Available Techniques (BAT) evaluations for key systems.
Ensure compliance with UKAEA environmental governance, environmental legislation, and emerging fusion specific regulatory frameworks.
Act as the primary environmental interface with engineering teams, programme leadership, regulators, and external stakeholders.
Develop, track, and report environmental KPIs, ensuring environmental performance informs programme level decisions.
Lead the preparation of EIA scoping inputs, ensuring timely, technically robust contributions to the planning and consenting process.
Environmental Competence Requirements:
Demonstrable experience in Lifecycle Assessment (LCA), carbon modelling, materials impact analysis, and end of life planning.
Strong working knowledge of BAT principles, justification processes, and application in regulated or novel technology environments.
Skilled in ENVID facilitation, environmental risk assessment, and integration of findings into engineering assurance.
Deep understanding of UK environmental law, EIA Regulations, environmental permitting, and compliance frameworks.
Ability to interpret, challenge, and apply environmental modelling outputs (emissions, waste, water, ecology).
Competence in circular economy principles, resource efficiency, waste minimisation, and sustainable materials selection.
Experience working within structured environmental governance environments, ideally in nuclear, energy, defence, or other highly regulated sectors.
Our client offers more than just a role – they provide a supportive environment where expertise is respected, development is encouraged, and high performance is recognised. If you’re a proactive, confident Health and Safety professional looking to play a pivotal role in shaping safe, compliant, and high-performing project environments, they would love to hear from you.
Apply now!
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Salary description
£80000.00 - £90000.00 per year