About the role
Senior Environment & Sustainability Advisor – Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)
Location: Peterborough (Hybrid working available)
Balfour Beatty play a key role as part of the {(6) Anglian Water's @one Alliance: Overview | LinkedIn} @Anglian Water’s one Alliance. The Alliance is a ground-breaking collaboration between Anglian Water and eight industry-leading partners: Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. And together, we deliver around 40% of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.
As we progress through AMP8 – our most ambitious asset management period to date – we’re delivering nature-based and sustainable infrastructure, from wetlands to urban drainage schemes, setting new benchmarks for environmental performance.
What you'll be doing
As a Senior Environment & Sustainability Advisor, you will be at the forefront of ensuring our projects not only meet environmental legislation but exceed best practice.
Working closely with delivery teams, you’ll provide expert guidance, support on-site, and play a key role in mentoring and developing Environment & Sustainability Advisors across the Alliance.
This is an opportunity to drive environmental performance, champion innovation, and influence how sustainability is embedded across major infrastructure projects.
- Lead and support construction projects on environmental and sustainability matters, producing site-specific documentation and guidance
- Ensure compliance with environmental legislation and promote best practice across the @one Alliance
- Undertake site environmental audits and support continuous improvement
- Carry out environmental inspections (CEIRs) based on project risk profiles
- Lead reporting of CAT2 and CAT3 incidents, support near-miss reporting and assist with CAT1 investigations
- Review environmental documentation (e.g. PEMPs) produced by Advisors
- Support the introduction of innovative and sustainable practices across the Alliance
Who we're looking for
- Degree in an environmental or related discipline
- Strong technical knowledge across areas such as contaminated land, waste management, ecology, soil testing and environmental incident investigation
- Membership (Practitioner or Full) of a relevant professional body
- Experience in audit, reporting and performance tracking
- Strong skills in data and document production (Excel, Word, GIS, PowerPoint)
- Ability to work collaboratively with site teams and influence environmental best practice
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 Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.
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: BBUK19791
