Senior Environmental Manager

Job description / Role

Reporting to the HSE Director, the Senior Environmental Manager is responsible for ensuring that Project construction activities are carried out in accordance with THE LINE Project requirements, Kingdom’s environmental legislation and best international industry practices.

The Senior Environmental Manager will carry out one or more of the following activities:
• Manage THE LINE environmental management program, compliance programs, including operational, environmental and sustainability management system requirements.
• Dealing with environmental management of the construction contracts in conjunction with the project director and development team lead.
• Developing and optimising environmental strategies for the program.
• Provides technical inputs on design vision, project positioning, scope requirements, and project schedules for initial planning.
• Monitoring and verifying the environmental performance of Project construction activities through various methods including field inspections and audits, review of Project documents, analysis of data and information related to environmental performance, coordination of progress meetings, assessment of environmental conditions and day-to-day coordination with other environmental professionals and Project teams.
• Monitoring the implementation of corrective actions.
• Leading/ coordinating environmental incident response and root cause investigations and overseeing implementation of controls to prevent recurrence.
• Preparing and/or coordinating the preparation of environmental performance summaries, reports, dashboards, inspection and monitoring forms or logs (stand-alone or for inclusion into other Project progress reports).
• Preparing, contributing to, or maintaining planning documents including environmental plans and procedures, risk registers, compliance obligation registers, objectives, targets, KPIs.
• Reviewing Project requirements, performing gap assessments, preparing registers / logs / summaries.
• Analyzing environmental data and information, documenting findings, preparing requests for information (RFIs) or other queries.
• Preparing environmental training and awareness materials and delivering training to a Project teams.
• Managing the performance of other environmental and sustainability professionals, consultants, and contractors as necessary.
• Preparing scopes of work and specifying requirements for inclusion into contracts, framework agreements and other contractual documentation.
• Preparing environmental training and awareness materials and delivering training to Project teams.
• Assisting with the achievement of sustainability objectives, targets and KPIs as necessary.
• Performing any other duties as might be necessary to achieve the Project’s environmental and sustainability requirements, objectives, and targets.
• Checking of the environmental aspects of design.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree science or engineering from a recognized university in a physical or natural resource related field including environmental science, environmental engineering, etc. Advanced degree preferred.
• ISO 14001 EMS auditor certification and Hazardous waste management training (e.g., 40-Hr. Hazwoper).
• Environmental certifications such as IEMA, CEnv., REP / REM, QAES, CPESC, etc. would be an asset.
• Management qualifications (PMP, MBA, other) would be an asset.
• At least 20 years of combined experience in civil infrastructure, a substantial amount of which constitutes working with PMC organizations to manage the environmental compliance of civil infrastructure development Projects or Programs. GCC experience preferred.
• Experienced in preparing and implementing Environmental Management Systems and associated plans and procedures.
• Excellent attention to detail- ensures that work products are thorough, accurate, precise, and free of errors.
• Excellent analytical, investigative, and problem-solving skills with the ability to evaluate complex problems.
• Ability to carefully follow written and/or verbal instructions or directions. Asks for clarification, if necessary.
• Requires minimal supervision in performance of tasks.
• Dependable- excellent planning and time management skills with ability to prioritize and complete multiple tasks within reasonable timeframes.
• Agile and adaptable- able to perform different tasks as might be needed to achieve short and long-term team objectives.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills in the English language.
• Ability to summarize complex or detailed information and to effectively communicate outcomes to potentially non-technical audiences in an organized manner through various means including reports, logs, trends, emails, presentations, etc.
• Works well in a team environment and respectfully and effectively collaborates with persons from diverse ethnic and socio-cultural backgrounds.
• Demonstrates integrity, fairness, and professionalism in all interactions.

About the Company

Parsons is a leader in many diverse markets such as infrastructure, transportation, water, telecommunications, aviation, commercial, environmental, planning, industrial manufacturing, education, healthcare, life sciences and homeland security.

Parsons provides technical and management solutions to federal, regional and local government agencies as well as private industries worldwide.