Environmental sustainability advisor

About The Role

This role is to support the delivery of environmental sustainability on Balfour Beatty rail projects across the southwest, ensuring compliance, stakeholder engagement, and performance reporting in line with the Building New Futures strategy. This role combines hands-on operational delivery with early-stage team guidance and influence.

What you'll be doing

• Champion the delivery of environmental and sustainability outcomes, engaging teams to embed actions supporting Building New Futures commitments and Bridging the Gap actions.
• Manage environmental risks and opportunities by developing and maintaining project- specific environmental and sustainability plans and risk assessments.
• Contribute to the strategic implementation of project sustainability plan, driving actions, monitoring progress and reporting to senior Environmental Sustainability Team and project Leadership Team.
• Support Senior Environmental Advisors / Consultants and liaise with other group Sustainability teams to deliver best sustainability outcomes for the projects.
• Ensure compliance with legal, contractual, and ISO14001 requirements, including directing and supporting project teams in the preparation of consents, licences, and permits.
• Provide technical advice on environmental compliance, pollution control, waste, and ecology, ensuring alignment with the Business Management System (BMS).
• Upskill project teams and contractors through toolbox talks, work package plans, and on-site learning.
• Conduct inspections, audits, and reviews; facilitate external audits; and report findings to project teams.

Who we're looking for

• Practical application of ISO 14001, including risk and opportunity assessment and environmental controls.
• Working knowledge of environmental legislation
• Knowledge of pollution, waste, ecology, and compliance frameworks
• Knowledge of key environmental sustainability data types used for measuring performance.
• Conducting inspections and audits
• Advising on compliance and mitigation
• Degree in environmental / sustainability-related field preferred
• Registered Environmental Practitioner (REnvP) preferred
• UK Driver’s License

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…

With a strong track record of delivery, our civils teams connect communities through infrastructure projects in the highways, public realm, rail, flood and coastal defence, and industrial sectors across England and Wales.

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

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:

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: ***email_hidden***