Environmental Advisor
About You
Join Us and Make a Real Impact in Environmental Protection and Enhancement!Do you dream of being the go-to expert for providing advice and support on environmental protection and enhancement?
Are you ready to collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to deliver transformative projects?
Can you create clear, effective scopes of work, plans and procedures for major pollution prevention and mine remediation initiatives?
If your answer is yes, keep reading!
We’re looking for passionate individuals to join our dynamic team, committed to tackling river pollution and delivering metal mine remediation projects in some of GB’s most stunning and protected landscapes.
What You’ll Need to Succeed:
- Expertise in Environmental Legislation: A deep understanding of environmental protection laws, sustainability goals, and nature recovery objectives across the three nations we serve.
- Proven Technical Experience: A strong track record of providing valuable technical support and advice to diverse project stakeholders.
Being a key player in environmental protection and sustainability by working with our team, and contribute to protecting and enhancing precious ecosystems and designated landscapes.
You will also;- Provide Expert Advice: Offer specialist environmental assessment and management guidance to project delivery teams, with a focus on the Water and Abandoned Metal Mines (WAMM) Programme in England.
- Lead Environmental Assessments: Oversee the collection and application of ecological and environmental data throughout all stages of project development and delivery.
- Support Project Managers: Act as the go-to expert for WAMM Project Managers, advising on ecological and environmental management, protection, and improvement. Guide the scoping and interpretation of external consultants’ surveys and reports.
- Implement Key Measures: Help integrate the Mining Remediation Authority Sustainability and Nature Recovery Plans into pollution prevention schemes, collaborating closely with sustainability and environmental management leaders.
This is your chance to combine technical expertise with a genuine passion for environmental protection. Be part of a role where your work truly matters and contributes to safeguarding the natural world for future generations.
If you’re ready to make a difference, we want to hear from you! Apply now and become a key player in driving positive environmental change.
About The Role
You will be providing specialist environmental assessment and environmental management related technical advice and support to project delivery teams, with particular focus on the Water and Abandoned Metal Mines (WAMM) Programme (across non-coal mining areas in England).
Leading on the environmental assessment of projects, ensuring appropriate ecological and other environmental data is collected and utilised during all stages of project development and delivery.Acting as a first point of contact for WAMM Project Managers on matters relating to ecological and other environmental management, protection and improvement. You would be advising on the scope and implications of external environmental consultants surveying and reporting.
Assisting with implementation of measures from the Mining Remediation Authority and Nature Recovery Plans into the operation and maintenance of pollution prevention schemes, working closely with the Sustainability, Nature Recovery and Environmental Management System managers.
To find out more about the role, take a look at the job description.
Role location: Hybrid working (on average 2 days working out of our Mansfield office)
Schedule:
- Application closing date: 2nd February 2025
- Sifting date: 3rd February 2025
- Interviews: w/c 10th February 2025
(If you are unavailable on these interview dates, please make us aware and we will look at alternative dates)
Security: Successful candidates must pass basic security checks and will be subject to UK Immigration requirements.
About Mining Remediation Authority
Our benefits:
- A cutting-edge pension scheme with an impressive employer contribution rate of approximately 28.97%.
- Experience our values-based recognition scheme that celebrates your contributions.
- Flexibility in working patterns, whether it's full-time, part-time, or compressed hours.
- Embrace flexible working arrangements tailored to your needs.
- Enjoy a generous holiday allowance of 27.5 days annually, plus the flexibility to add 6 extra days to that, alongside 8 public holidays.
- Benefit from a comprehensive parental leave policy with 26 weeks of full pay (subject to eligibility).
- Get support to further your professional qualifications and payment for one annual professional subscription.
- Access a free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme to support your well-being.
- Unlock exclusive employee discounts
- Ensure your well-being with an annual health check and receive £15 monthly towards well-being activities.
- Enjoy the convenience of on-site free parking, along with complimentary tea, coffee, and soft drinks at our Mansfield office.
We offer different ways to work flexibly, and the following types of flexibility are usually possible: job share, flexible hours, working from home for part of the week and compressed hours. Please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview.
With a genuine commitment to flexible working, we believe that work life balance is incredibly important.
Who we are:Here at the Mining Remediation Authority, we really are a great team to work with. We’re united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.
We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping everyone and everything safe from mine water pollution.
We are excited about what our future holds. Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK. By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net-zero emissions by 2050.
We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values. We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:As part of our commitment to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria who are disabled or from a minority ethnic community.
We want to recruit you based on your skills and experience, and not the colour of your skin, where you come from, or who you share your life with. What’s important is that you can carry out your role effectively. That’s why, when you submit your application to us, we remove all your personal data before the hiring manager reviews your details.
If you are successful and you join us, you can be confident that this is because we trust that you will be successful and can make a difference. By continuing to improve our diversity, we continue to improve our knowledge and innovation and live our values of being trusted, inclusive and progressive.
If you have the skills and experience that we are looking for, but you require an alternative application form or other reasonable adjustments to apply, let us know. You can get in touch by email at recruitment@coal.gov.uk or give us a call on 01623 637000