Overview
Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor to join our team supporting the Bramford to Twinstead Network Optimisation Project. This role provides expert environmental guidance, promotes sustainability, and influences positive change across multiple projects. You’ll support operational teams, liaise with clients and regulators, and ensure compliance with environmental standards while driving a culture of continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
* Deliver and support environmental and ecological initiatives, including net gain projects.
* Provide expert advice to operational and design teams on environmental management, mitigation, and compliance.
* Produce, review, and maintain environmental management plans, risk assessments, and sustainability plans.
* Report on environmental and sustainability performance to clients and leadership teams.
* Engage with clients, regulators, subcontractors, and local stakeholders to ensure environmental requirements are met.
* Oversee and support a team of Environmental and Sustainability Advisors/Coordinators across multiple projects.
* Investigate environmental incidents and recommend preventive measures.
* Lead internal training, toolbox talks, and coaching to promote development and awareness.
* Support bid teams by reviewing client tender documents and providing detailed responses on environmental management.
* Contribute to continuous improvement through sharing lessons learned and supporting audit and assurance activities.
Qualifications and experience
* Experienced in environmental management and sustainability within construction or infrastructure projects.
* Strong knowledge of environmental legislation, standards, and best practices.
* Excellent communicator with the ability to liaise confidently with clients, regulators, and teams.
* Experienced in supervising teams and prioritising tasks effectively.
* Committed to driving sustainability initiatives and embedding environmental awareness across projects.
Benefits
* Smart working, with flexibility such as staggered start/finish times and up to 40% remote working where role allowances.
* 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
* Family-friendly policies including maternity/adoption leave and paternity/partners leave.
* Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and 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. Our in-house experts, flexible resources and innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
Diversity and inclusion
We believe diversity and inclusion are essential components of a successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive. We are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum, and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). We are a Disability Confident Employer and committed to creating accessible opportunities for all applicants.
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