Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our Highways team as a Environmental Sustainability Advisor on the M3 Junction 9 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.
What you'll be doing
- Provide advice and support to operational teams on environmental matters
- Develop and maintain local environmental management and sustainability plans
- Linking numerous projects to ensure overarching environmental and sustainability initiatives implemented and long term opportunities recognised and achieved.
- Maintain relationships with regulators, clients and subcontractors
- Develop and maintain relationships with local stakeholders
- Investigate and report incidents to the Environmental Manager and / or E&S Business Partner
- Ensure the environmental management system is maintained in line with changing standards and legislation and Client requirements.
- Ensure Sustainability is embedded within the projects, aligning to the Balfour Beatty Blueprint
- Ensure on site compliance with environmental legislation and coach teams in applying controls and mitigations.
- Generate innovative approaches with both short and long term impact
- Liaise with client, regulatory bodies and subcontractors on matters of environmental sustainability.
- Produce and update environmental management plans and environmental risk assessments
- Report on environmental and sustainability performance to both the Client and the Environmental Manager
- Be representative and delegated authority of Environmental Manager where required; meetings, client forums etc.
- Provide on-site advice to operations and design teams on environmental management, compliance and project specific mitigation measures including pollution control and ecology protection
- Investigate environmental incidents and support the business to implement controls to prevent repeat occurrence
- Ensure lessons learned and recommendations are implemented from incidents & audits
- Deliver environmental training, toolbox talks and undertake onsite coaching, promoting development and appropriate training of staff
- Produce internal and external reports as required, e.g. case studies, environmental performance.
Who were looking for
Essential
- Strong 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
- Commercial awareness
- Full driver’s licence and flexibility to travel
- Understanding of the utilities/construction/engineering operating environment
- Literate in MS Office – Word, Excel, Outlook
- Good interpersonal skills
Desirable
- Internal environmental auditor qualification
- Competent ecological surveyor for one protected species
- Master’s degree in relevant field
- NEBOSH H&S Diploma or equivalent
- Knowledge of the Construction Industry
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.