About the role
Provide environmental and sustainability support across bid and pre-construction
activities, contributing to the development of high-quality tender submissions and early-
stage project planning. Support the identification of environmental risks, constraints, and opportunities, ensuring they are considered and integrated into project design,
programme, and delivery strategy from the outset.
What you'll be doing
- Deliver value adding environment projects and support ecological enhancements,
including net gains.
- Liaise with client, regulatory bodies and subcontractors on matters of
environmental management and sustainability.
- Produce and update environmental management plans and environmental risk
assessments.
- Produce sustainability and involved plans, per project and overarching the region.
- Report on environmental and sustainability performance to both the Client and
the Environmental Manager.
- Feed into the business stream’s communications plan with sustainability content
and use communications and improvements to engage staff on an on-going basis.
- Support Project Managers in managing subcontract and supply chain, ensuring
projects delivered as per contractual obligations and commercially viable.
- Provide guidance to senior leadership and management on strategic objectives.
Who we're looking for
Essential:
- Knowledge of environment management
- Educated to degree level in Environmental Science, Environmental Management.
- Experience of working within the environmental field in the construction industry.
- Experience managing people/teams.
- Practical experience and knowledge of environmental legislation, ecology
mitigation, environmental licences and consent applications and regulators.
- Understanding of ecological matters and environmental law · PIEEM, or IEMA
Membership.
- Full UK driver’s licence and flexibility to travel.
- Understanding of the utilities/construction/engineering operating environment ·
Desirable:
- Internal environmental auditor qualification.
- Competent ecological surveyor for one protected species.
- Master’s degree in relevant field.
- NEBOSH H&S Diploma or equivalent.
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: [email protected]
Job Reference: BBUK19858
