Environmental Sustainability Manager
Location
Scotland | United Kingdom
Job description
About the role
Environment and Sustainability Manager
Job description
Working on a wide variety of construction projects, primarily within the energy sector but also within the civils and building sectors, this role requires an experienced Environment and Sustainability professional good all-round environment and sustainability experience. This role is for someone with previous construction related experience who enjoys working in the ever-changing environment of construction. The role will require travel around various projects in Scotland and therefore the successful candidate must have a full clean driving licence and be happy to travel to a variety of locations with occasional stays away from home.
What you'll be doing
- Compiling requires environmental plans, method statements and risk assessments as part o f the pre construction project phase
- Providing advice to construction teams regarding pollution prevention and environmental best practice this may be in the form of developing management plans, delivering training, site inspections or chairing meetings
- Ensuing compliance with environmental legislation during all construction and demolition activities by way of regular site inspections.
- Maintaining a site waste management plan and collating the waste records for all waste movement offsite including those from subcontractors.
- Maintaining and collating sustainability records such as waste, carbon and material sourcing records including those from subcontractors.
- Undertaking and advising on noise and vibration monitoring.
- Undertaking and advising on water quality monitoring and sampling.
- Regular liaison with key environmental stakeholders including SEPA, NatureScot and Local Authorities.
- Reporting on and developing initiatives to improve environmental performance onsite.
- Ensuring compliance with environmental commitments within the contract and/or planning documents.
- Identifying more sustainable solutions for the construction industry, including working on new sustainability initiatives.
- Leading teams of experts such as ecologists, archaeologists and designers to determine key control measures/targets/processes for the project.
- Working on tenders for new projects.
- Advising project teams on start up documentation and licensing requirements for new projects.
- Working with and reporting to customers and other key stakeholders on a regular basis.
Who we're looking for
- Understanding of current environmental legislation and best practice relating to construction projects - including waste management, pollution prevention and material sourcing.
- Familiarity with routine environmental inspections and reporting for construction projects
- Experience with Waste Duty of Care requirements and documents
- Experience of Carbon Footprinting
- Good communication skills
- Ability to assist in problem solving for environmental and sustainability challenges and providing opportunities for environmental innovation
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 the future. We 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.
- Company car
- Medical health cover
- BB Pension Scheme
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Payment of an annual professional membership
- Enhanced maternity & family friendly policies
- Real career progression opportunities
- Access to our employee referral scheme
- Discretionary annual salary reviews
About us
About us
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. 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.
Further information on Disability Confident can be found at:
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