Senior Environmental Safety Consultant - Defence Consulting

RINA
Chippenham
9 months ago
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RINA is looking for an experienced Senior Environmental Engineer with between 3-10 years commercial experience to join a specialist and growing Safety Environmental team, delivering environmental projects for the Ministry of Defence across the Air, Land, Maritime and Cyber domains. This is an exciting opportunity, working with the military ensuring robust environmental cases are achieved in highly complex high hazard environments.

This role can be based out of our Chippenham, Leatherhead or Lincoln offices, though RINA is a smart/hybrid working organisation, so living within commuter distance of the office is not necessarily required.

The Environmental team are experiencing a real breadth of project work on some of the most technically advanced programmes in UK Defence, including naval destroyers, submarines, autonomous air systems, Apache, Chinnock, Typhoon, but to name a few.

Responsibilities:

You will manage a variety of Environmental and Sustainability programmes and ensure requirements are delivered on time, to budget, and to the required quality; Deliver Environmental Impact Assessment and Assurance projects as required by a project’s Statement of Requirement; Integrate Environmental activities with the Safety Engineering initiatives within joint Safety & Environmental projects; Support to bids, proposals, analysis and report writing; Provide reports on productivity and other performance indicators to the management team for project specific tasks; Augment the Environmental Safety team with developing new capability in order to meet new and emerging market demands.

Qualifications & experience:

Between 3-10 years’ experience in the assessment and management of Environmental Impact policies for UK MOD programmes and other government led initiatives; Preferably a degree in either Engineering, Science, Environmental Sciences or Sustainability; A working knowledge of Defence Standards (ideally Def Stan 00-056 and/or 00-051), but this is not a pre-requisite; A good working knowledge of ASEMS or POEMS processes; Ideally have an understanding of ISO14000 series (Environmental Management); Ideally some experience of MOD procurement processes; A good understanding of Environmental Legislation / Regulation; Preferably some knowledge of UK MOD platforms; either land, sea/maritime and/or air. You must be a British citizen, or have UK Security Clearance. You can either have worked for a Defence contractor, consultancy or come straight from the military.

About RINA Aerospace & Defence (ASD) UK:
RINA S&D UK has been awarded Gold status with the Armed Forces Covenant Employers Recognition Scheme and proudly supports those who serve.

RINA ASD UK is a Engineering Consultancy to the Defence sector, providing a portfolio of consultancy services, including Safety, ILS, Training, Cyber Assurance, Human Factors and Data Science & Analytics. It has a proven track record and excellent reputation in supporting and improving performance for some of the military’s most technically advanced programmes across air, land, and sea.

RINA Group

RINA is a 6,000 strong global engineering services firm, with a heritage in Classification and Certification. It provides innovative safety related services to Defence, energy, oil & gas, power, renewables and transport & infrastructure. Operating out of 70 countries, RINA offers significant depth of experience across engineering disciplines to support clients, ensuring the functional safety of products and platforms. RINA has a strong reputation providing services that are of the highest quality, creating significant value add.

Why RINA

We offer competitive salaries and pension contributions. You will enjoy a generous leave allowance, private medical care, life insurance and more. Our great financial benefits are only part of the attraction, you can expect quick integration and real opportunities for professional development (i.e. Chartership). As part of our growing global team you will work with world-class engineers. #LI-JB1

Benefits:

As part of our growing global team you’ll find yourself working with world-class professionals and clients in a variety of market sectors. As well as that you will be rewarded with: 25 days leave (plus bank holidays)  Option to buy more holiday  Smart Working policy  Professional development, support with qualifications (i.e Chartership)  Pay for professional membership  Matched 6% pension  Life Assurance  Healthcare cover (Family can be added at an additional cost)  Support of Military Reservists – 10 additional paid days  Cycle to work scheme  Employee perks – retail discounts  Recruitment referral bonus  4 half days paid leave for STEM Ambassadors  Season ticket loan 

At RINA, we endeavor to create a work environment where every single person is valued and encouraged to develop new ideas. We provide equal employment opportunities and are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels respected and safe from discrimination or harassment of any kind.

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