Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor

Balfour Beatty is seeking a Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor for their Power T&D team in Invergarry, UK. The role involves delivering environmental management and sustainability strategies, providing guidance to project teams, ensuring compliance with legal standards, and engaging with clients and stakeholders. Responsibilities include managing environmental risks, supporting project teams, and reporting on sustainability performance. The position requires proactive leadership in promoting sustainable practices within projects.
About the role

Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. They’re an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise. Join our Power T &D team as a Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor on the BB Power Scotland Project and you’ll deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you.

We are looking for a Senior Environment & Sustainability Advisor to deliver

environmental management requirements and actions and support our sustainability

strategy.

The role will provide strategic direction, support and guidance to our project teams

on all aspects of environmental management, meeting legal and company standards

and helping deliver a culture of continual improvement. It will support site-based

project design, construction controls and mitigations, sustainability opportunities and

deliver against client led contractual requirements. A key part of the role will be

engagement with clients, stakeholders, subcontractors, and environmental

authorities.

Specifically, the role holder will directly support the Environmental Manager to:
• Work closely with project teams to deliver environmental and sustainability

commitments, ensuring ongoing compliance with Balfour Beatty BMS and

customer requirements, working with clients such as SSEN and or SPEN.
• Oversee monthly performance reporting against client KPIs and internal

targets, seeking to make continuous improvements in process and quality of

data

What you'll be doing
• You will contribute to the strategic implementation of our sustainability plan,

driving actions, monitoring progress and reporting to senior Environmental

Sustainability Team.
• Manage project environmental risks and opportunities, supporting project

teams to develop and maintain local environmental and sustainability

management 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 Environmental Advisors/Consultants and liaise with other group

sustainability teams to deliver best sustainability outcomes.
• Direct and support teams' applications for consent, licences or permits as

required and ensure project/contract 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. Developing a plan for education and reporting

progress.
• Ensure upload of environmental data monthly to the sustainability portal,

working with project teams to develop the most effective process.
• Deliver monthly environmental sustainability performance reporting to the

client to meet project specific requirements.
• Be involved at the planning stage to support design teams to identify and

control risk and identify opportunities to reduce carbon, waste and biodiversity

net loss.
• Liaise with client, regulatory bodies and subcontractors on matters of

environmental management and sustainability

Who we're looking for

The following qualities/experience are essential:
• Strong knowledge of environment management with the relevant experience

working in a construction environment.
• Practical experience and sound knowledge of environmental statutory

requirements, including environmental legislation, ecology mitigation,

environmental licencing and consent applications and regulation.
• Understanding of the benefits of working collaboratively to obtain the best

outcome.
• Good interpersonal, communication and influencing skills.
• Determination to see tasks through to completion, with excellent planning and

organisation skills.
• Interpreting and managing data via databases, consistent record keeping and

writing detailed reports.
• Full UK driver's licence and flexibility to travel.
• Literate in MS Office - Word, Excel, Outlook.
• Professional Membership level of a relevant professional body

(IEMA/CIEEM/CIWEM).
• Experience of deputising for more senior role.

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.
• Knowledge of the Construction Industry - specifically understanding of the

power/construction/engineering operating environment.
• Experience of taking on new challenges in a systematic and enthusiastic

manner.
• Managing legislative issues for clients, including planning permissions and

consents.
• Good understanding of ecological constraints within a construction

environment including ecological calendar, licensing and mitigation

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 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 www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

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://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

Job Reference: BBUK09579