Senior Environmental Manager

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. It 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.

• Completion, reviewing, and updating of company environmental documentation, sustainability delivery and a variety of environmental risks and opportunities.
• Producing and maintaining permitting and licensing requirements for specific projects.
• Fully interpreting policy, regulation, and legislation across the portfolio.
• Providing visible ES support across the portfolio.
• Supporting one or more high‑level/value/complex projects through feasibility to post‑construction with the backing of your E&S Team colleagues.
• Supporting one or more standalone projects through feasibility to post‑construction.
• Ensuring and reporting on environmental compliance.
• Supporting work winning advising on ES issues such as planning, permitting, and licensing requirements.
• Managing EROA/IRIS.

• Full driving license and flexibility to travel.
• Professional membership level of a relevant professional body (IEMA/CIEEM/CIWEM) or the ability to demonstrate equivalent experience and competence.
• Good knowledge of environmental management with relevant experience.
• 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.
• Overseeing, developing and directing Graduate ES roles across your portfolio.
• Understanding the benefits of working collaboratively to obtain the best outcome.

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.

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life.

• 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 including 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave.
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.

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.

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit  We are committed to creating an inclusive culture and as a Disability Confident Employer, we aim to work with people who have disabilities and long‑term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment.