About the role
To lead the implementation of the Building New Futures strategy across a portfolio of projects or a major programme, ensuring compliance, performance, and innovation. This role provides strategic guidance, manages teams, and embeds sustainability into operational delivery and decision-making.
What you'll be doing
- Promote a positive environmental culture through proactive engagement and communications with project teams, supply chain, client and statutory bodies.
- Act as a point of contact between the delivery team, client, regulatory authorities and other third party consultees on-site based issues.
- Investigate environmental incidents and near miss events in accordance with Balfour Beatty standards to identify and share lessons learned.
- Manage complex environmental risks and opportunities, supporting project teams in developing and maintaining robust environmental and sustainability plans.
- Direct and support the preparation of consents, licences, and permits, ensuring legal and contractual compliance.
- Oversee and provide expert advice on project level environmental compliance.
- Deliver monthly environmental performance and compliance reporting to internal and client stakeholders, ensuring data integrity in the Sustainability Portal.
- Develop and deliver targeted training and education plans for project teams and supply chain.
Who we're looking for
- Environmental Degree or related discipline (preferred) or NEBOSH Environmental Diploma or IEMA Certificate.
- Chartered Environmentalist (preferred)
- Relevant CSCS Card
- Full clean UK driving licence
- Practical application of managing environmental risk and opportunity.
- Advanced understanding of environmental legislation and management systems.
- Understanding of environmental impacts of construction and infrastructure activities.
- Detailed knowledge of sustainability KPIs and performance metrics.
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: BBUK18363
