Environmental Clerk of Works
PR/077838
Posted: 30/05/2025
- £30000 - £50000 per annum
- Scotland, Highland, Inverness
- Permanent
Are you passionate about protecting the natural environment?
Would you like your work to directly influence the sustainability of major UK infrastructure projects?
Our Client is a successfull Civil Engineering contractor with a long history of delivering complex projects including Marine, Renewables, Power & Transmission.
As the Environmental Clerk of Works, you’ll be the on-the-ground guardian of biodiversity, habitats, and compliance.
What You’ll Be Doing
This is a field-based role supporting a range of infrastructure and construction projects (Power & Transmission, Renewables, Cabling).
Your day-to-day work will include:
** Applicants must have the relevant right to work in the UK as visa sponsorship isnt provided.
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Would you like your work to directly influence the sustainability of major UK infrastructure projects?
Our Client is a successfull Civil Engineering contractor with a long history of delivering complex projects including Marine, Renewables, Power & Transmission.
As the Environmental Clerk of Works, you’ll be the on-the-ground guardian of biodiversity, habitats, and compliance.
What You’ll Be Doing
This is a field-based role supporting a range of infrastructure and construction projects (Power & Transmission, Renewables, Cabling).
Your day-to-day work will include:
- 🛠 Monitoring and ensuring compliance with environmental commitments and legal requirements on construction sites
- 📋 Advising site teams on best practices to protect habitats, species, and natural features
- 🦉 Undertaking ecological surveys (e.g. protected species, nesting birds) and reporting findings
- 🤝 Liaising with contractors, designers, and clients to deliver practical environmental solutions
- 📝 Producing site reports and communicating risks or incidents promptly
- 🔎 Identifying opportunities to enhance biodiversity through proactive site management
- Holds a degree (or equivalent experience) in Environmental Science, Ecology, or a related field
- Has at least 1 year of site-based experience (e.g. construction, ecology, consultancy, enforcement)
- Understands UK environmental legislation, especially in relation to planning and construction
- Is confident working independently and influencing site teams in a practical, supportive way
- Has a full UK driving licence and is happy to travel to rural sites
- CSCS card (preffered but not essential)
- Experience with protected species mitigation or ECoW roles
- Familiarity with CEMP/EMP implementation
** Applicants must have the relevant right to work in the UK as visa sponsorship isnt provided.
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
John MacRitchie
Senior Recruitment Consultant
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