About The Role
To lead the implementation of the Building New Futures strategy across a portfolio of projects or a major programme, ensuring compliance, performance, and innovation. This role provides strategic guidance, manages teams, and embeds sustainability into operational delivery and decision‑making.
What you’ll be doing
* Demonstrate visible sustainability leadership across the portfolio, engaging regularly with project teams to promote accountability, collaboration, innovation and a sustainable mindset.
* Lead the implementation of the Environmental Sustainability Strategy and Bridging the Gap actions across a portfolio of projects, a major project, or region, ensuring alignment with business priorities and Building New Futures commitments.
* Act as a trusted advisor to Project Directors and senior stakeholders, providing strategic guidance on compliance and sustainability, and influencing decision‑making to embed a culture of environmental leadership.
* Provide strategic sustainability expertise across the project lifecycle, including early‑stage planning, permitting and risk mitigation. Support the development and review of environmental documentation such as plans, permits and assessments, and advise on embedding sustainability into work winning and operational delivery.
* Oversee environmental compliance across the remit, including audits, inspections and engagement with clients and regulators, ensuring adherence to ISO14001 and the Business Management System (BMS).
* Represent the Environmental Sustainability function in work‑winning activities, responding to bespoke sustainability questions and promoting innovation.
* Translate sustainability data into operational improvements and ensure accurate reporting of performance, incidents and KPIs via the Sustainability Portal and other client or business systems.
Who we’re looking for
* Communicate global mega‑trends driving the need to transform the world to sustainability.
* Communicate the concept of sustainable development.
* Regional strategy implementation.
* Strategic stakeholder engagement.
* Ability to lead multi‑disciplinary teams and embed sustainability into project delivery.
* Environmental documentation and permitting.
* Business Management System (BMS) and ISO 14001.
* Understanding of sustainability requirements in tendering and bid processes.
* Overseeing compliance across multiple projects.
* Degree in an environmental or sustainability‑related field preferred.
* Registered Environmental Practitioner (REnvP) preferred; may be working towards Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv).
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/partner leave.
* Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
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: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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