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Are you an aspiring environmental professional with a passion for delivering impactful change?
Waterman Group is a multidisciplinary consultancy providing sustainable solutions to meet the planning, engineering design and project delivery needs of the property, infrastructure, environment, and energy markets. We support private and public clients on their journey to achieving Net Zero and help them plot a course to becoming climate resilient. Across a range of disciplines, our award-winning technical experts advise clients on significant priorities such as Air Quality, Ecology, Environmental Assessments, Transport and Waste and provide clients with multidisciplinary climate resilience support.
The role
We’d like you to join our growing Environmental Management, H&S, Climate Resilience, Due Diligence and Responsible Investment team in London or Sheffield.
By joining our dynamic team, you’ll help provide our growing range of clients with new tools, analysis, and strategic advice to enable them to identify, manage and act on the environmental risks relating to their business.
Play a frontline role in Environmental Management & Compliance on Waterman’s environmental management product - Greenspace. Help clients navigate Environmental legal obligations and targets and be part of our innovation to launch “ClimateSpace”. This will be our client's platform to assess and display their compliance against a growing number of climate and EHS rules and regulations.
You will also support Waterman’s award-winning and market leading Due Diligence and ESG responsible investment team working across a wide range of sectors, industries and client sizes helping private equity, banks, infrastructure funds, blue-chips, developers, and government agencies.
This exciting role offers great opportunity for growth for you and the wider team. Waterman has set out a strong ambition to be leaders in providing a comprehensive suite of products and services that promote the opportunities and navigate the complexities of EHS Management, Climate Change and Responsible Investment.
You will be a key player in the success of the business unit as well as being able to develop your own expertise further. The role is likely to be based in London, but Sheffield or Manchester will be considered. We offer flexible working arrangements.
Responsibilities
Day-to-day activities and your developing role in shaping our future. We will train you to:
- Research and summarise guidance documents on topics including Climate, ESG and Sustainability to expand the scope of the Greenspace platform.
- Support our clients ensure compliance with your developing knowledge of UK legalisation.
- Preparation of Environmental Management Documentation on our Greenspace platform: Legal Registers, Risk Registers, Compliance Audits and Improvement Plans.
- Prepare photo-illustrated reports, presentations or other outputs as needed for projects and business development.
- Work with the team to support Environmental Management Systems and Due Diligence projects when required.
- Support our ‘EnviroWizard’ Environmental Screening Service which identifies key investment risks relating to contaminated land liabilities, flood risk and mining subsidence.
About you
Although we’re happy to consider applicants with more or less experience, you’ll ideally have qualifications, experience or skills in the following areas:
- A University Degree in a relevant discipline – such as environmental science or engineering.
- Basic working knowledge of Environmental legislation, guidance and standards
- An interest in ESG, Climate Change and Resilience Planning.
- Ideally some experience, preferable in a consulting, industrial or commercial sector
Benefits
Joining our team will give you:
- Competitive salary and benefits package with annual salary reviews
- 26 days holiday per year, rising to 31 days with loyalty days, plus bank holidays
- Hybrid working arrangements
- Fantastic training and development culture
- Access to mentoring support from industry experts
- Opportunity to play a key role in exciting and varied projects
- Fast-tracked career progression for the right candidates
To apply, please send your CV and a covering letter explaining why you’d be a great fit for our team to careers@watermangroup.com, or complete and submit the form below. All applications will be treated in confidence. Waterman is an equal opportunities employer and values diversity.
