Environmental Sustainability Advisor- Carbon

Balfour Beatty is seeking an Environmental Sustainability Advisor- Carbon for their Power T&D team in Glasgow. The role involves carbon baselining, forecasting, analysis, and ensuring compliance with PAS 2080. Key responsibilities include supporting carbon data collection, benchmarking, and training development. Candidates should have industry experience in civil engineering projects, strong interpersonal and analytical skills, and a commitment to improving carbon management processes.
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What you'll be doing

Core activities:
• Undertake carbon baselining and forecasting process on live projects to ensure carbon estimates are complete, use tailored carbon factors where available, and are auditable for PAS 2080 compliance
• Provide carbon analysis from Candy or support others to do so, to provide preconstruction and delivery teams with understanding of hotspots and focus for carbon reductions
• Support the development of processes as necessary, to collate actual carbon data from in-flight projects
• Ensure carbon benchmarking data is periodically fed back into benchmarking during preconstruction and delivery stages of the project lifecycle; with checks to ensure consistency and accuracy of data
• Utilise OneClick for carbon reporting to the client

Supporting activities:
• Promote the use of common coding and standardised templates and processes to facilitate data collection for benchmarking
• Support as necessary the periodic reporting of carbon benchmarking data during preconstruction and delivery stages of the project lifecycle; with checks to ensure consistency and accuracy of data
• Support the development of training and guidance documents to ensure consistency of carbon estimating and maintain required standard
• Support preconstruction and project teams to produce options assessments (currently cost and carbon, but also in future, time) and to upskill the business in this capability

Deliverables & Controls:
• Carbon Management is a key business capability, which will have commercial and work winning implications – support preconstruction and project delivery teams to achieve this
• Timely, accurate and useful input to carbon estimating and optioneering support
• Consistency and compliance is achieved across all bids and projects
• Continual improvement of carbon processes and systems through learning and experience; providing recommendations for improvements

The following qualities and experience are essential:
• Demonstrable industry experience in a technical role (engineering / commercial) on a range of major infrastructure / civil engineering projects with a good understanding of construction methods, processes and temporary works
• Experience of bid, preconstruction or construction delivery phases of projects incorporating major,complex civil engineering
• The desire and interest to develop carbon estimating skills and expertise using Candy, and the commitment to help drive change and carbon management capability across the business
• Good interpersonal skills that enable working relationships to be developed at all levels in the business
• Good planning, management and organisation skills
• Demonstrable verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrable analytical and problem solving skills
• Team player who is highly committed to achieving results in a collaborative way with others
• Some experience of engineering or commercial processes, supporting multi-level projects and programmes
• Strong desire to upskill others to ensure lasting and positive shift in business approach

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://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

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: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com