Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor

What you'll be doing
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.
Who we're looking for
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 licencing 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.
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.

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…

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

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…