Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor

Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor

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About The Role

The role will provide direction, support and guidance to our project teams on all aspects of hands‑on environmental management, meeting legal and company standards and helping deliver a culture of continual improvement. The role will support site‑based project design construction controls and mitigations, sustainability opportunities and deliver against client‑led contractual requirements and BBPTD tactical aspects to achieve our strategic goals. A key part of the role will be engagement with clients, stakeholders, subcontractors, and environmental authorities.

What you'll be doing

• Work closely with project teams to deliver environmental and sustainability commitments, ensuring ongoing compliance with Balfour Beatty BMS and customer requirements, working with clients such as SSEN and/or SPEN.
• Have an expert level ecology bias and experience liaising with regulatory bodies, including but not limited to Nature Scot, SEPA, Marine Scotland and Local Planning Authorities.
• Oversee monthly performance reporting against client KPIs and internal targets, seeking to make continuous improvements in process and quality of data.
• Completion, reviewing, updating of company environmental documentation, sustainability delivery and various environmental risks and opportunities.
• Producing/maintaining permitting and licensing requirements for specific projects.
• Support with awards submission entries.
• Fully interpret policy, regulation, and legislation across the portfolio.
• Providing visible ES support across the portfolio.
• Supports one or more high‑level/value/complex projects through feasibility to post‑construction with the backing of your E & S Team colleagues.
• Ensure and report on environmental compliance.
• Regular site inspections, including those with client or regulatory representatives.

Who we're looking for

• Full driving licence and flexibility to travel.
• Professional membership level of a relevant professional body (IEMA/CIEEM/CIWEM) or ability to demonstrate equivalent experience and competence.
• Good knowledge of environment management with relevant experience working in a construction environment.
• Practical experience and sound knowledge of environmental statutory requirements, including environmental legislation, ecology mitigation, environmental licensing and consent applications and regulation.
• Oversee, develop and direct graduate ES roles across your portfolio.
• Be required to visit worksites and offices across Scotland and attend occasional ES meetings across the UK.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Benefits

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40 % remote working where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
• Family‑friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partner’s leave.
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.

About Us

Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.

From scoping and feasibility to design, construction and on‑going maintenance, our in‑house experts, flexible resources and industry‑leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK's most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

Diversity and inclusion

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