About The Role
To lead environmental sustainability delivery on complex projects or on several smaller projects, translating the Building New Futures strategy into practical actions. This role manages risk, influences stakeholders, and supports team development to drive measurable sustainability outcomes.
What you’ll be doing
* Influence early‑stage design and planning to identify risks and opportunities that reduce carbon, waste, and biodiversity net loss, supporting Building New Futures commitments.
* Drive the implementation of project sustainability plans and Bridging the Gap actions, reporting progress to senior teams and contributing to strategic delivery.
* Manage complex environmental risks and opportunities, supporting project teams in developing and maintaining robust environmental and sustainability plans.
* Direct and support the preparation of consents, licences, and permits, ensuring legal and contractual compliance.
* Provide expert advice on environmental compliance, pollution control, waste, and ecology, ensuring alignment with ISO14001 and the Business Management System (BMS).
* Oversee project compliance performance, including inspections, audits, and reporting, and facilitate external audits by clients and certification bodies.
* Liaise with clients, regulators, and subcontractors to ensure effective delivery of environmental and sustainability outcomes.
* Lead investigations into environmental incidents, ensuring lessons are captured, shared, and embedded into continuous improvement.
* Deliver monthly environmental performance and compliance reporting to internal and client stakeholders, ensuring data integrity in the Sustainability Portal.
Who we’re looking for
* Practical application of ISO 14001 including environmental risk and opportunity assessment and environmental controls.
* Advanced understanding of environmental legislation and management systems.
* Understanding of environmental impacts of construction and infrastructure activities.
* Detailed knowledge of sustainability KPIs and performance metrics.
* Registered Environmental Practitioner (REnvP) preferred.
* Degree in environmental / sustainability‑related field preferred.
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.
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 Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on‑going maintenance, our in‑house experts, flexible resources and industry‑leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
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 www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion. We are members of WISE, ENEI, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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 encourages 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: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/.
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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