Environmental Manager

Overview:

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration – through conceptualization – to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 60 years we’ve led with vision, contributing to many of the world’s most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is recognized by ENR as one of the Top 225 International Design Firms and one of the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms. We are also ranked by World Architecture as the 51st largest global architecture firm and the #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2024 WA100 Survey.

We invite you to join us. Why?

When you join KEO, you’ll discover more than just a job – you’ll find a supportive environment that fosters your professional development through internal global mobility and career development and does so within a culture that supports company-wide health and well-being through on-demand counselling services and regular workplace clinics. You will be invited to celebrate community events such as sports days, fun-runs, in-house sports teams and beach clean ups. In addition to your competitive package and benefits you will have access to a suite of policies that include hybrid working arrangements, individual athletic sponsorship, study assistance sponsorship, employee referral rewards.

Responsibilities:

Our newest opportunity is for a talented Environmental Manager to join our award-winning team based in Riyadh, KSA.

We are seeking a dynamic individual to work within our vastly expanding and award-winning sustainability and environmental team to spearhead the growth of our business within the Middle East and Europe. Candidates must be self-motivated and bring energy, drive and passion to their work and be able to build on the success of the existing team. The ideal candidate will drive compliance with environmental regulations, oversee construction activities with an emphasis on sustainability, and ensure high standards are maintained in accordance with local and international guidelines.

We envisage success in this role to include:

1. Experience in Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) over a wide range of infrastructure, industrial projects, masterplans, etc.
2. Overseeing on-site environmental compliance of construction activities, ensuring adherence to approved Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) guidelines.
3. Developing and implementing construction management and environmental monitoring plans, including site assessments and compliance audits.
4. Understanding and experience of applying environmental and social safeguards of international finance institutions such as the World Bank Group is beneficial.
5. Delivering high quality environmental reports to governmental and private clients.
6. Planning or conducting field work involving environmental sampling and monitoring (air, noise, waste, ecology, etc.) is beneficial.
7. A specialization in a particular field (air, noise, marine science, ecology, etc.) is beneficial.
8. Working closely with engineering specialists and other experts.
9. Reviewing complex documents, summaries and present key issues in a clear and concise way.
10. Client facing experience in meetings and presentations.
11. Ability to travel.
12. Strong interpersonal, communication and writing skills.
13. Work alongside a multidisciplinary team and in a multicultural environment.

Qualifications:

To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envision that your career journey to date will include a minimum of 15 years’ experience partnered with a BEng/MSc in Environmental Engineering or Environmental Management with EIA development and delivery experience.

We are seeking relevant project management experience working for large scale infrastructure, industrial and masterplan projects. Experience in environmental management systems, Environmental Site Assessments (ESA), Environmental Compliance Studies and auditing is beneficial, such as the development and/or supervision of construction management and monitoring plans.

Knowledge of principles and practices of research and data collection, a successful track record of staying within budget and schedule on projects and experience of the delivery of technical reports, will be considered critical. In-depth knowledge of Saudi Arabian environmental regulations and ESIA standards and strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Saudi Nationals will be preferred favorably for this role.

KEO’s performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety and our people. We embrace diversity and recognise its contribution to client success wherever we work.

We are excited to hear how you can partner with our award-winning team and treat all expressions of interest confidentially.