Sustainability Advisor

M Group Services Limited; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure services company is seeking a Sustainability Advisor in Aberdeen. This role involves driving the Sustainability Strategy by delivering training, analyzing data, and ensuring project compliance with sustainability commitments. Ideal candidates will have a relevant degree, detailed knowledge of environmental issues, and a full UK driving license. The position offers a supportive and collaborative environment and includes 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Discretionary daily out allowance

Salary sacrifice EV/Hybrid car scheme

Car Allowance

Private health care

Qualifications

• Experience in driving sustainability initiatives.
• Ability to produce technical sustainability documents.
• Full UK Driving licence and willingness to travel.

Responsibilities

• Drive the business's Sustainability Strategy.
• Deliver training and analyze data for reporting.
• Ensure compliance with sustainability commitments.

Skills

Detailed knowledge of environmental sustainability issues

Good knowledge of PAS 2080 Carbon Management

Understanding of ISO 14001, ISO 9001

Education

Recognised Degree in Sustainability or related field

Job description

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

At M Group Energy, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.

This role is in our Transmission and Renewables division.

We provide an end‑to‑end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.

What will you be doing:

We're looking for a Sustainability Advisor to join our team in Aberdeen, this is a central role in driving the business’s Sustainability Strategy by delivering training, analysing data, and producing reports, while ensuring that project design and construction meet both MGroup Energy and SSEN client sustainability commitments. This role will require some travel so a Full UK driving licence is required.

You'll provide guidance on environmental issues such as carbon reduction and social value, collaborate with clients and contractors to embed best practices, and oversee sustainability management across all project stages. Beyond project delivery, you'll support internal teams—such as Bids, Design, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Training—by enhancing procedures, embedding sustainable approaches, and facilitating tailored training. Acting as a mentor and advisor, you'll help project teams and partners understand sustainability risks and responsibilities, while also introducing innovative techniques to improve environmental performance. As part of the wider SHEQ team, you'll ensure compliance with legislation, maintain management processes, and regularly liaise with stakeholders to anticipate risks and implement timely changes that safeguard business continuity.

• Ensure any works completed on site meet the clients required specification / MGroup Energy standards of work.
• Work with the Environment and Sustainability Manager, within the wider business unit, sector and group to identify, develop, quantify and deliver innovative and sustainable products and services following sustainability targets and commitments including proposing and delivering, if possible, sustainability initiatives for projects including production of business case, where appropriate. Lead a process of change and transformation. Implement cost saving initiatives on site and roll out successful ones across business.
• Provide support to projects to ensure understanding, competence, compliance and continuous improvement. Includes carrying out routine site visits, surveys, inspections and internal audits and providing constructive advice and compensatory actions.
• Provide all project, and client, team(s) with professional environmental sustainability direction and considered, pragmatic specialist advice, guidance and support in sustainability topics and risks. Provide advice, training, standard controls and mitigation through project tendering, Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) and construction stages of a project in order to ensure that environmental sustainability is managed proactively, pragmatically and appropriately whilst remaining within regulatory and other compliance framework(s).
• Research, review and gather required information in order to produce mandatory and required project sustainability documentation without oversight including, but not limited to Environmental Management Plans, Carbon Management Plans, Sustainability Action Plans, Toolbox Talks and occasional site walkover surveys.
• Review of specialist documentation such as specialist method statements, tender information etc. to provide detailed technical sustainability support to project and bids / ECI team(s) for risk identification, management and mitigation.
• Assist Estimator with project management (time) allocation and ensure costs, projected time and programmes are included in the work package.

What you'll bring:

• Detailed knowledge of environmental sustainability issues and how they relate / impact on business operations.
• Good knowledge and understanding of PAS 2080 Carbon Management in Infrastructure and Built Environment or equivalent.
• Knowledge and understanding of ISO 14001, ISO 9001 and / or ISO45001.
• A recognised Degree (or equivalent transferable qualification e.g. NEBOSH Environmental or equivalent) in Sustainability, Environmental Science or Management of a relevant subject.
• Full UK Driving licence -Willingness to travel to various locations across the UK with regular overnight stays.

What’s in it for you?

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Discretionary daily “out allowance” of up to £90/day for site based staff
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• Car Allowance
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.