Environmental Sustainability Manager

Location: Lewes

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About the role

Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our

About the role

Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our Enabling Functions team as a Environmental Sustainability Manager on the Living Places team, you’ll work with true experts who’ll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.

What you'll be doing

• Support contracts with their sustainability management plans inclusive of the Balfour Beatty group strategy, customer standards and other contract requirements.
• Manage associated data capture and reporting including the internal sustainability portal and external platforms where required
• Support the contract teams to ensure they are compliant with the BMS requirements
• Develop the contract team’s knowledge and skills to understand the sustainability related contract requirements including understanding how their roles impact the overall ambitions
• Provide on-going expertise, support and coaching to the contract team and supply chain, to enable them to recognise risks and opportunities, to deliver, and where possible exceed targets
• Identify suitable awards and opportunities to promote contract activities, including the production of case studies and relevant communications
• Carry out site inspections and audits of highways depots and on projects across the Southampton Highways network
• Development and line management of Environmental Sustainability Graduate

Who we're looking for



The following qualities/experience are essential:

• Ability to influence and promote a positive culture
• Understanding of UK policy, regulatory frameworks
• Ability to undertake contract planning, contract management and work to budgets
• Understanding and practical experience of contract Sustainability risks and opportunities and how they practically impact on the ‘built environment’
• Programme management experience with a structured approach to organising and documenting progress through KPI monitoring and performance reporting
• Practical experience of Sustainability in a construction environment with a particular emphasis on environmental compliance.
• Experience in identifying innovation and developing case studies to promote contract successes
• Ability to articulate to and influence key stakeholders on how sustainability practically impacts on clients, suppliers, communities and stakeholders
• Communication and relationship management skills are required
• Experience in construction environment
• Demonstrates commitment to continual learning to refine, further develop and apply expertise to add distinctive value to customers and Balfour Beatty
• Experience of managing and analysing sustainability data
• Full driving licence and a willingness to regularly travel across East Sussex.

The following qualities/experience are desirable:

• Additional relevant skills and qualifications in a technical area such as sustainability, engineering or construction.
• Stakeholder management experience
• Line management experience
• Carbon and waste management knowledge/ expertise.

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…