Environmental manager

Job Description Overview

The Environmental Manager will serve as the Contractor's full-time, dedicated authority for all environmental matters on the Project. The role ensures full compliance with the Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP-C), Employer's Requirements, and applicable environmental laws. The Environmental Manager will act as the Employer's primary point of accountability for environmental compliance, ensuring that all construction activities are performed in a responsible, sustainable, and legally compliant manner.

Your role

• Full implementation, maintenance, and monitoring of environmental compliance with the CEMP-C and all associated environmental procedures.
• Reporting directly to the Contractor's Project Manager and acting independently to ensure compliance with Employer's requirements.
• Authority to issue stop-work orders to Contractor and Subcontractor staff to prevent environmentally harmful or non-compliant activities.
• Maintaining full-time presence on Site and managing a team of environmental technicians, auditors, inspectors, or similar.
• Ensuring all Subcontractors appoint trained environmental staff responsible for implementing relevant CEMP-C elements.
• Establishing the environmental organizational structure, communication lines, and reporting mechanisms.
• Liaising closely with the Employer on all environmental matters, providing timely reports, and ensuring prevention and mitigation of environmental risks.

About you

• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience, including at least 5 years specifically as an Environmental Project/Program Manager on large, complex infrastructure projects.
• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering or closely related discipline.
• Strong command of the English language is mandatory.
• Proven experience in environmental auditing, monitoring, planning, and sustainable construction practices.
• Demonstrated experience in the Gulf Region and preferably additional international experience.
• Qualification as an Environmental Auditor is a significant advantage.
• Subcontractors' Environmental Managers must also be suitably qualified and experienced in environmental site management.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive - at every stage of your life and your career.

This includes:

• Tax free salary.
• Comprehensive life insurance coverage.
• Premium medical insurance for you and your dependents.
• Generous annual leave balance.
• Flexible and hybrid work solutions.
• Remote work opportunities outside of country.
• Company gratuity scheme.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Annual flight contribution.
• Relocation assistance.
• Transportation & housing allowances (available for remote work locations).
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.