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About The Role
Your contributions will help us create new opportunities and possibilities every day – for us, for the country’s infrastructure, and for yourself. Join our
About The Role
Your contributions will help us create new opportunities and possibilities every day – for us, for the country’s infrastructure, and for yourself. Join our Power T&D team as an Environmental Sustainability Manager on the OHL refurbishment project and open up new pathways you never dreamt possible.
What you'll be doing
* Completion, reviewing, updating of company environmental documentation, sustainability delivery and a variety environmental risks and opportunities
* Producing/maintaining permitting and licencing requirements for specific projects
* Support with Awards submission entries
* Fully interpret policy, regulation, and legislation across the portfolio
* Providing visible ES support and leadership across the portfolio.
* Supports one or more high-level/value/complex projects and frameworks through feasibility to post construction with the backing of your E&S Team colleagues
* Supports one or more standalone projects and frameworks through feasibility to post construction.
* Ensure and report on environmental compliance.
* Regular site inspections, including those with client or regulatory representatives
* Identify and promote innovative solutions.
* Advise and guide all levels within the project portfolio.
* Ensure ES information e.g. KPIs are cascaded to supply chain.
* Support work winning advising on ES issues e.g. planning, permitting, and licensing requirements.
* Attend work winning interviews with clients.
* Support project / operations leads with identification of potential ES related commercial impacts or opportunities and claims
* Identify Best Practice/Case Studies
* Delivering ESA training or other awareness activities
* Ensure timely client and internal reporting
* Manage and reporting all environmental incidents
* Managing maintaining EROA/IRIS
* Drive sustainability action plans and inform key project decisions through findings from data, assessments, audits, and incidents
* Line management of ES advisors / coordinators / graduates or apprentices
Who we're looking for
* Full driving license and flexibility to travel
* Professional Membership level of a relevant professional body (IEMA/CIEEM/CIWEM) or ability to demonstrate equivalent experience and competence.
* Good knowledge of environment management with the relevant experience working in a construction environment.
* Practical experience and sound knowledge of environmental statutory requirements, including environmental legislation, ecology mitigation, environmental licencing and consent applications and regulation.
* Oversee, develop and direct Graduate ES roles across your portfolio.
* Understanding of the benefits of working collaboratively to obtain the best outcome.
* Good interpersonal, communication and influencing skills.
* Determination to see tasks through to completion, with excellent planning and organisation skills.
* Interpreting and managing data via databases, consistent record keeping and writing detailed reports.
* Be required to visit worksites and offices across Scotland and attend occasional ES meetings across the UK.
* Literate in MS Office - Word, Excel, Outlook.
* Ability to deputise for more senior role (e.g. Lead Senior ES Manager)
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.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s 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 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
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture 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 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: 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
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Other
* Industries
Construction
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