Environmental and Sustainability Advisor

Location

South East England | United Kingdom

Job description

About the role

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for an Environmental and Sustainability Advisor to join our Highways team to work on the M4 J8-12 delivering enhanced user safety facilities. This role will see you providing support and advice to 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 also work with Clients and Regulators to ensure their environmental requirements are complied with.

If you have or are looking for a career in Highways, working on and around the M25 and its connected motorways will give you an experience and challenge that no other highways project can offer.

What you'll be doing

As an Environmental Advisor you will:

• Provide on-site advice to operations and design teams on environmental management, compliance and project specific mitigation measures including pollution control and ecology protection.
• Maintain relationships with regulators, clients, subcontractors and local stakeholders.
• Ensure on site compliance with environmental legislation and coach teams in applying controls and mitigations.
• Liaise with client, regulatory bodies and subcontractors on matters of environmental management and sustainability.
• Produce and update environmental management plans and environmental risk assessments
• Investigate environmental incidents and support the business to implement controls to prevent repeat occurrence
• Ensure implementation of the project environmental management systems on project sites.
• Keep up to date with standards and legislative changes and where applicable recommend changes to systems and processes.
• Deliver environmental training, toolbox talks and undertake onsite coaching
• Produce internal and external reports as required, e.g. case studies, environmental performance.
• Support and conduct audit and assurance activities including facilitating external audits by clients and certification bodies

Who we're looking for

Essential:

• Educated to degree level in Environmental Science, Environmental Management
• Proven experience of environment management and sustainability.
• Practical experience and knowledge of environmental legislation, ecology mitigation, environmental licences and consent applications and regulators
• Full UK drivers licence and flexibility to travel
• Understanding of the Construction operating environment
• Literate in MS Office Word, Excel, Outlook
• Good interpersonal skills

Desirable:

• Internal environmental auditor qualification
• Masters degree in relevant field
• PIEMA or IEMA Membership

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UKs 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 wasnt rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package thats 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 Beattys 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

We are 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:

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]

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