Senior Environmental Sustainability Manager - Regional Lead Scotland

Location

Scotland | United Kingdom

Job description

About the role

Balfour Beatty Power Transmission and Distribution (BBPTD) has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Environmental Sustainability Manager to join our Power Transmission and Distribution team across the whole of Scotland. Responsible for managing a team of Environmental Managers to support the delivery of a number of high profile energy projects. We offer the opportunity for a mix of working from the office or at home. Our Environmental Sustainability Team has a wide background of team players, who support each other and their projects on environment and sustainability matters to protect the environment and aid project delivery.

What you'll be doing

This role will see you leading the Environmental Sustainability Function for our Power Transmission and Distribution Business in Scotland. You will report into the Head of Sustainability and have a dotted line into the Operations Director for Scotland. You and your team will support operational teams, project engineers and managers on aspects of sustainability and environmental management and best-practice, developing environmental documentation, meeting legal and company standards. You will be a key client interface building relationships and developing strategy.

The lookahead for projects in Scotland is very strong with modernisation, refurbishment and newbuild projects planned over the coming decades as part of the wider UK programme to bring more and reinforce capability in supporting renewable generation, transmission and distribution. This project will play a huge part in realising our clients vision and contribute significantly to the UKs net zero aspirations.

Here at Balfour Beatty we are working hard to support the government's ambitions to deliver low-carbon energy across the UK and beyond. We are on our way to leading every market we are in and we have the strategy and momentum to get there. If you are looking for a career in Power, working within BBPTD on our projects will give you experience and exciting challenges that no other industry can offer. Your main responsibilities include;

• Provide advice, support and direction to the leadership team in Scotland.
• Manage a team of ES Managers, Advisors, Ecologists and Archaeologists
• Report on good practices and investigate and report on environmental incidents to the project teams and the client with the support of your colleagues
• Lead and manage high level incident investigations
• Take part in lessons learnt exercises and consider areas for improvements
• Work with the Head of Sustainability to promote Zero Harm objectives and Building New Futures strategies to drive continuous improvement of environmental compliance.
• Develop professional relationships with customers and specifically their Sustainability professionals
• Represent Balfour Beatty at internal and external meetings and conferences if required

Who we're looking for

The following qualities/experience are essential:

• A relevant degree or equivalent in an environmental discipline
• Thorough working knowledge of current environmental legislation
• Strong working knowledge of the construction sector, preferably Utilities
• Experience in deciphering technical documents and translating into operational terms
• Strong background in assessing environmental hazards and understanding of the mechanisms of how to mitigate
• Knowledge of Biodiversity Net Gain
• Previous experience of dealing with regulators
• Ability to build relationships across all levels of the organisation and competent in producing reports
• Professional and pragmatic team player who can build and sustain effective working relationships
• Strong business awareness, employee focus and attention to detail
• Programme management experience with a structured approach to organising and documenting progress
• Commercial awareness of contracting
• Valid Driving Licence
• Interest in the utilities/construction/engineering operating environment.
• Confident using MS Office Word, Excel, Outlook

The following qualities/experience are desirable:

• IEMA Practitioner or above
• Working knowledge of E&S Management systems

Why work for us

Our people are our biggest asset, and we focus on recruiting, training and developing the people who can apply innovation to deliver the infrastructure of tomorrow. We support and nurture these talents, offer a great benefits package in addition to a competitive base salary and continually invest in developing the skills of our people at every level.

The Environmental Sustainability Team is one family and we work closely to support each other and our project teams to look after our environment and aid project delivery, including a positive working relationship with the wider BBPTD ES community across Scotland.

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.

With experience and expertise across the full spectrum of the electricity grid our teams have capability across overhead lines, cable tunnels, distribution networks and substations.

From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support clients in the development of some of the worlds most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects both historically and as we move forward in the 21 st Century.

We value diversity and celebrate individual differences, believing that our inclusive culture helps the business continue to grow as a strong, dynamic and innovative organisation.

Balfour Beatty is a corporate signatory to WISE (Women in Science & Engineering). Our aim is to attract more people from diverse backgrounds to help us build on our inclusive culture. We are a member of the workingmums.co.uk Top Employers' Charter through which we demonstrate our commitment to enabling parents to progress and enhance their careers whilst managing the challenges of family life.

Balfour Beatty is also Gold Award holders in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications

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