Senior Advisor - Waste and Circular Economy

Senior Waste & Circular Economy Advisor
Location: Open - Birmingham, CEMC, Manchester or St Neots preferred

At Laing O'Rourke, sustainability is central to how we deliver projects, innovate and create long-term value. As part of our commitment to Science-Based Targets and wider sustainability goals, we are looking for a Senior Waste & Circular Economy Advisor to drive waste reduction, resource efficiency and circular economy initiatives across the business.

This is a hands on role working closely with project, manufacturing, logistics and digital teams to improve waste performance, embed best practice and support more circular approaches to materials and resources.

As Senior Waste & Circular Economy Advisor, you will play a key role in embedding sustainable and circular practices across a leading engineering and construction organisation. You will help shape and deliver initiatives that improve material efficiency, reduce waste and support innovation across our operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver waste improvement initiatives and support implementation across projects and facilities.
• Support delivery of the Materials Management Strategy and future circular economy initiatives.
• Analyse waste performance data, identify trends and support corrective actions.
• Work with operational teams to improve reuse, recycling and take back schemes.
• Develop case studies, share best practice and support working groups.
• Act as a technical advisor on waste and resource management.
• Collaborate with digital teams to improve waste monitoring, reporting and data insight.

About You Essential

• Experience managing and delivering improvement initiatives or programmes.
• Background in waste management, resource efficiency or materials optimisation within construction, manufacturing or logistics.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with experience using data to drive performance improvement.
• Good understanding of waste legislation, duty of care and waste hierarchy principles.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Desirable

• Experience with reuse, take back or circular economy initiatives.
• Familiarity with digital waste monitoring platforms.
• Experience supporting manufacturing or logistics operations.

What We're Looking For

• Pragmatic, delivery focused and solutions oriented.
• Comfortable challenging existing practices and influencing change.
• Detail oriented, commercially aware and committed to continuous improvement.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position.