Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor

About the role

To provide support and guidance to our project team on the 30km Bramford Twinstead Network Optimisation Project (BTNO) for National Grid, focusing on upgrade works at Bramford Substation.

This will be on all aspects of environmental management, meeting legal and company standards and helping deliver a culture of continual improvement within Balfour Beatty and on the project. You will be supporting site‑set up, construction controls and mitigations, sustainability opportunities and engagement throughout the construction. You will be part of a large Environment and Ecology team supporting the project.

• Contribute to the implementation of our sustainability plan driving actions, monitoring progress and reporting.
• Manage project environmental and social risks and opportunities, supporting project teams to develop and maintain local environmental management and sustainability plans and risk assessments.
• Actively lead environment and sustainability, engaging project teams to encourage and promote sustainable behaviours and innovations, deliver positive outcomes and maintain project documentation.
• Provide support and advice on environmental management, compliance and project specific mitigation measures including pollution control and ecology protection.
• Support applications for consent, licences or permits as required and ensure project environmental compliance responsibilities are maintained.
• Upskill the project team and contractors on environment and sustainability responsibilities and controls via work package plans, toolbox talks and on‑site learning and development.
• Accurately record and report environment and sustainability data, best practices and lessons learnt.
• Ensure upload of data monthly to the sustainability portal.
• Monitor and investigate environmental incidents, complaints and close call reporting.
• Ensure corrective actions are taken forward and support the business to implement controls to prevent repeat occurrence.

The following qualities/experience are essential:

• Strong knowledge of environment management
• Practical experience and sound knowledge of environmental statutory requirements, including environmental legislation, ecology mitigation, environmental licensing and consent applications and regulation.
• Knowledge of the Construction Industry – specifically understanding of the rail/construction/engineering operating environment.
• Full UK driver’s licence and flexibility to travel.
• Professional Membership level of a relevant professional body (IEMA/CIEEM/CIWEM)

The following qualities/experience are desirable:

• Good knowledge and practical experience of developing, implementing and improving EMS’s certified to ISO 14001 accreditation.
• Internal environmental auditor qualification.
• Understanding of the Section 61 application/consent process.
• Understanding of socio‑economics (social‑value / social‑performance).
• Managing legislative issues for clients, including planning permissions and consents.

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.

Why join us?

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.

We are a Disability Confident Employer committed to working with people who have disabilities or long-term health conditions to remove barriers to employment. We also encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.