Senior Environmental Sustainability Manager

Senior Environmental Sustainability Manager

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To provide strategic and operational leadership across multiple projects or regions, driving the delivery of the Building New Futures strategy. This role leads teams, manages senior stakeholder relationships, and ensures sustainability is embedded into business planning and performance.

• Sustainability leadership
• Team support, management and development
• Proactive client engagement to build relationships and inform strategic direction
• Strategy implementation across BU and all Projects
• Providing strategic sustainability expertise across project lifecycle
• Proactive supply chain engagements to drive innovation
• Oversee environmental compliance & governance
• Translate sustainability data into strategic operational improvements
• Drive continuous improvement
• Lead / direct incident investigations
• Lead internal assurance
• Liaising with regulators, external stakeholders
• Reporting against environmental KPIs
• Evidence‑based strategic planning / governance
• Collaborating with wider teams.

• Full UK Driving License
• DBS / BPSS Security Cleared
• Degree educated in an Environmental or Sustainability background
• Prior experience of working in Secure Environments e.g. Defence, Nuclear. Environmental or Sustainability Masters.
• Understand global mega-trends and how they drive the need to transform the world to sustainability.
• Understand how environmental limits and the equalities agenda support economic growth and sustainable capital.
• Prior Carbon Management Experience
• Registered Environmental Practitioner (REnvP) preferred, may be working towards Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv).

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…

Operating across England and Wales, our buildings teams create places where people live, are cared for, work, learn, meet and have fun, with a focus on the aviation, health, defence, education and development sectors.

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 and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit https://disabil

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidate recruit

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