Job description
Key Responsibilities
- Adopt a proactive approach to improving performance and promoting sustainability to all staff
- Raise awareness of the Sustainability Strategy and Standards via both formal and informal training of staff
- Work with project teams throughout the whole development process (from land buying to design, product specification and construction, through to sales and customer service) to ensure Group sustainability standards and commitments are met
- Undertake frequent visits to construction sites to assess compliance with the in-house environmental management system and make recommendations for improvement
- Assist in the collation, analysis and reporting of data (such as waste volumes and utility and fuel use) to enable the assessment of performance against sustainability targets
- Keep up-to-date with the sustainability agenda, new legislation and best practice guidelines and understand how they may affect the company
- Prepare guidance to assist project teams in managing sustainability
- Attend meetings with senior management to discuss sustainability performance, including a quarterly governance meeting
- Set and communicate key tasks to those staff members undertaking graduate rotations within the department
- Work as part of the group-wide sustainability forums and working groups to share knowledge, drive good practice and implement the corporate Sustainability Strategy
- Compile written reports on sustainability performance
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- A degree in a relevant subject
- Have at least 2 years of experience in a relevant sustainability role, preferably within the built environment.
- Motivated and enthusiastic about promoting sustainability
- Be confident, articulate and resilient in your approach, with the ability to apply sustainability principles in a commercially focused manner.
Person Specification
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
- Confidence in working with people at all levels in an organisation
- The ability to motivate people to change their behaviour
- Experience of delivering training
- Good knowledge of sustainability issues within the construction/house building industry
- A broad view of sustainability, focusing not only on environmental issues, but also the relative importance of social and economic impacts of our activities
About Berkeley Group
We specialise in long-term brownfield regeneration, focusing on challenging and complex sites that are beyond the scope of conventional homebuilders. We are highly collaborative, working with councils and communities to create a shared vision and to unlock a mix of social, environmental, economic and commercial value that benefits all of our stakeholders.