Environmental Sustainability Advisor - BBUK13694

About The Role

Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our Power T&D team as a Environmental Sustainability Advisor on the Eastern Green Link 2 project, you’ll work with true experts who’ll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for an Environment & Sustainability Advisor to join our Power T&D team based in North Yorkshire. As an Environment & Sustainability Advisor you will provide support and advice for operational teams on all aspects of environmental management, developing environmental documentation, meeting legal and company standards and helping deliver a culture of continual improvement. You will understand and work with Clients and Regulators to ensure their environmental requirements are complied with. Support on site mitigation, sustainability of works and engagement with local stakeholders and members of the

public. We're looking for someone who can provide support with tenders for work and so an understanding of environmental planning and permitting is required.

What you'll be doing

• Provide advice and support to operational teams on environmental matters.
• Develop and maintain local environmental management and sustainability plans.
• Maintain relationships with regulators, clients and subcontractors.
• Investigate and report incidents to the Environment & Sustainability Project Partner.
• Ensure the environmental management system is maintained in line with changing standards and legislation and Client requirements.
• Ensure on site compliance with environmental legislation and coach teams in applying controls and mitigations
  
  

Who we're looking for

• Understanding of environmental planning and permitting (essential)
• DCO/Planning experience
• Strong knowledge of environmental management and sustainable development.
• Educated to degree level in Environmental Science or Environmental Management.
• Practical experience and knowledge of environmental legislation, ecology and archaeology mitigation, environmental licences and consent applications and regulators.
• Understanding of ecological and archaeological matters and environmental law.
• Commercial awareness.
• Full drivers licence and flexibility to travel
• Understanding of the utilities/construction/engineering operating environment
• Literate in MS Office Word, Excel, Outlook
  
  

Desirable

• Internal environmental auditor qualification
• Knowledge of the Construction Industry
• IEMA Membership
  
  

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?

Benefits

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]