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.
Responsibilities
* Lead the implementation of the Environmental Sustainability Strategy and Bridging the Gap actions across a portfolio of projects, a major project, or region.
* 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.
* Line manage and develop Environmental Sustainability Advisors and Managers, ensuring capability, performance, and succession planning.
* Plan and manage environmental sustainability resourcing, including forecasting demand and ensuring appropriate support is in place to deliver compliance and performance outcomes.
* Liaise with regulators, clients, and external stakeholders to ensure effective delivery of sustainability and compliance objectives across the portfolio.
* Support the Head of Environmental Sustainability in regional governance, communications, and strategic initiatives.
Skills
* Communicate global mega‑trends driving the need to transform the world to sustainability.
* Communicate the concept of sustainable development.
* Regional strategy implementation.
* Team leadership and capability development.
* Strategic stakeholder engagement.
* Ability to lead multi‑disciplinary teams and embed sustainability into project delivery.
Knowledge
* Environmental documentation and permitting.
* Business Management System (BMS) and ISO 14001.
* Work winning and operational sustainability integration.
* Understanding of sustainability requirements in tendering and bid processes.
Experience
* Overseeing compliance across multiple project.
* Translating data into operational improvements.
* Representing sustainability in bids and client engagements.
* Leading environmental input into project mobilisation and close‑out.
Qualifications
* Degree in environmental / sustainability‑related field.
* Registered Environmental Practitioner (REnvP).
* Preferably 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/partners leave.
* Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.
Employment details
Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
Employment type: Full‑time
Job function: Other
Industries: Construction
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. For more information, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and 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.
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