Environmental Advisor

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career; with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive. Where will you be working? At M Group, we’re supporting the safe transportation and movement of people across the UK. We don’t just build roads and bridges – we’re building a better future, creating lasting social value that gives back to the communities in which we work. You’ll be joining our Highways Division – as the UK’s number one highway maintenance contractor, our teams use the latest innovations to create effective solutions. We offer a range of services including planned and reactive maintenance and highway improvement schemes. Want to come and be a part of it?

Stakeholder and client management – You build trusted relationships providing clear, practical environmental advice. You’ll:

• Provide clear environmental and sustainability guidance to project, design, bid, commercial and operational teams, helping them meet legislative, client and business requirements
• Work with clients, regulators, suppliers and specialist partners to coordinate environmental requirements and maintain effective working relationships
• Represent the business in meetings, audits and stakeholder engagements, acting with integrity, confidence and commercial awareness
• Deliver environmental awareness training, toolbox talks and communications

Governance and assurance – You help projects apply governance and improve assurance. You’ll:

• Manage the implementation and ongoing improvement of the Environmental Management System at project level, helping teams meet ISO 14001, PAS 2080 and other relevant requirements
• Plan and carry out environmental audits, inspections and compliance checks, tracking performance and help with corrective actions
• Make sure waste Duty of Care requirements are met, including documentation reviews, site inspections and performance monitoring
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• Specialist support – You provide specialist environmental input that supports compliant, well-planned delivery. You’ll:
• • Support pre‑construction activity where needed, including planning, EIA and DCO processes
  • Lead or coordinate environmental permits, consents and licences, making sure works meet regulatory and contractual requirements
  • Work with operational teams to coordinate environmental specialists on projects

  Delivery support, risk and commercial– You help projects manage environmental risk and deliver compliant work. You’ll:

  • Develop, review and maintain project environmental and sustainability documentation, management plans and actions
  • Identify, assess and manage environmental and sustainability risks and opportunities from tender through to construction stages
  • Support environmental incident investigations, root cause analysis, implement corrective and preventative actions
  • Support bid and tender activity where needed, contributing environmental inputs and considerations

  Performance, reporting and improvement – You use data and insight to support environmental performance and improvements. You’ll:

  • Capture, analyse and report environmental and sustainability performance data supporting divisional KPIs and timely internal and client reporting
  • Support delivery of environmental strategy targets and local plans by promoting resource efficiency, carbon reduction and project‑level innovation
  • Share lessons learned and support the development and use of best practice, improvement plans and digital tools
  • Support wider sustainability activities where needed to deliver shared outcomes