Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor

About the role

Balfour Beatty are seeking a Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor to join the team on the Lower Thames Crossing project near Grays. You will lead environmental sustainability delivery while translating the Building New Futures strategy into practical actions. This role manages risk, influences stakeholders, and supports team development to drive measurable sustainability outcomes.

• Influence early‑stage design and planning to identify risks and opportunities that reduce carbon, waste, and biodiversity net loss, supporting Building New Futures commitments.
• Drive the implementation of project sustainability plans and Bridging the Gap actions, reporting progress to senior teams and contributing to strategic delivery.
• Manage complex environmental risks and opportunities, supporting project teams in developing and maintaining robust environmental and sustainability plans.
• Direct and support the preparation of consents, licences, and permits, ensuring legal and contractual compliance.
• Provide expert advice on environmental compliance, pollution control, waste, and ecology, ensuring alignment with ISO
  14001 and the Business Management System (BMS).
• Oversee project compliance performance, including inspections, audits, and reporting, and facilitate external audits by clients and certification bodies.
• Liaise with clients, regulators, and subcontractors to ensure effective delivery of environmental and sustainability outcomes.
• Lead investigations into environmental incidents, ensuring lessons are captured, shared, and embedded into continuous improvement.

• Practical application of ISO 14001 including environmental risk and opportunity assessment and environmental controls.
• Advanced understanding of environmental legislation and management systems.
• Understanding of environmental impacts of construction and infrastructure activities.
• Detailed knowledge of sustainability KPIs and performance metrics.
• Registered Environmental Practitioner (REnvP) preferred.
• Degree in environmental / sustainability‑related field preferred.

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. Here are some of our key 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/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

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, ENEI, Business Disability Forum…