Environment Technician at Mota-Engil

Mission

• To ensure the implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the Project's Environmental Management System, ensuring compliance with applicable environmental legislation, customer requirements, financing entities, and MEECA's internal policies, promoting the prevention of environmental impacts, process efficiency, and the achievement of the KAMA Project's environmental objectives and goals.

Responsibilities

• Implement MEECA's environmental policies and the environmental requirements applicable to the Project, supporting the Region/Market's financing and environmental certification processes;
• Identify, together with the Project team, the environmental aspects and impacts associated with the Project's activities, promoting their assessment, control, and monitoring;
• Adjust, implement, and maintain the Project's Environmental Plan based on MEECA's internal procedures and applicable legal and contractual requirements;
• Support the Legal department in identifying all environmental legislation applicable to the Project and ensure that procedures, plans, and operational practices are legally compliant, promoting environmental awareness and training among employees;
• Identify, monitor, and address environmental findings (non-compliance, opportunities for improvement, and best practices), promoting and conducting internal environmental audits of the Project, subcontractors, and suppliers;
• Define and implement continuous improvement actions with a view to reducing environmental impacts, increasing the environmental efficiency of the Project, and meeting the defined objectives and targets;
• Collect, analyze, and report on the Project's environmental performance indicators, preparing internal and external reports;
• Centralize, update, and ensure the correct management of environmental information on MEECA's digital platforms, ensuring the implementation of the Project's document control and correspondence procedure;
• Analyze environmental data and statistics for the Project, promoting corrective and preventive actions whenever deviations are identified, as well as the continuous dissemination of good environmental practices;
• Identify environmental training needs, defining, planning, implementing, and evaluating training actions for employees and subcontractors, ensuring the continuous improvement of environmental skills;
• Promote internal meetings to monitor the implementation of the Project's Environmental Plan and represent the company before the Client and external entities on environmental matters, ensuring that the meetings are recorded;
• Plan and ensure the performance of internal project audits, inspections, and monitoring of preventive/protective measures related to the environment and, whenever necessary, provide a stopping point in the operation to ensure that corrective actions take place;
• Ensure the integration and environmental reception of new employees and subcontractors, preferably in coordination with the Quality and Human Resources departments;
• Ensure the definition, implementation, and monitoring of environmental operating procedures applicable to Project activities, promoting the respective training by activity;
• Structure and ensure the compilation of the environmental documentation necessary for the technical compilation of the Project and delivery to the Client;
• Manage and coordinate the Environmental technicians assigned to the Project;
• Perform other activities inherent to the function related to the Project's Environmental Management System.

Academic Background

• Higher education in Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, Environmental Management, Biology, or equivalent field;
• Training in Internal Auditing;
• Proficiency in MS Office tools;
• Fluency in Portuguese and English (spoken and written).

Professional Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in construction/building in the SHEQ area;
• Proven experience in team management.

Skills:

• Results-oriented;
• Respect for Group Values;
• Innovation and Change;
• Availability for Mobility;
• Knowledge of environmental legislation applicable to construction projects;
• Proficiency in ISO 14001;
• Experience in environmental impact assessment, waste management, effluent control, and environmental monitoring;
• Knowledge of internal and external environmental audits;
• Knowledge of ISO 26000, geoprocessing tools, and sustainability reporting is a plus.