About the Role
Are you passionate about driving environmental excellence in the construction industry? Balfour Beatty is looking for an Environmental Permitting & Consenting Specialist to provide technical leadership on environmental compliance, planning, licensing, and permitting across our UK operations. Reporting to the Head of Environmental Sustainability, this is a fantastic opportunity to shape how we deliver projects responsibly while ensuring we meet and exceed environmental standards.
What you'll be doing
* Lead on environmental compliance, building a culture of continual improvement across projects.
* Provide expert advice on planning, permitting, and UK environmental legislation.
* Support the development and roll-out of environmental management systems (ISO14001).
* Identify and assess environmental risks, ensuring robust mitigation strategies.
* Collaborate with operational teams, clients, regulators, and industry bodies.
* Drive performance reporting and support bids with environmental input.
* Represent Balfour Beatty in industry forums, influencing positive change.
* Lead investigations into environmental incidents, embedding lessons learned.
Who we're looking for
* A degree in Environmental Management (or related subject).
* IEMA Practitioner membership.
* 10+ years’ experience in environmental management, ideally within construction.
* Strong knowledge of UK environmental legislation, planning and permitting frameworks.
* Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence at all levels.
* Proven experience developing and implementing environmental management systems.
* A collaborative approach with the confidence to engage internal and external stakeholders.
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, with flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, and up to 40% remote working where roles allow.
* 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
* Family friendly policies including 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 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
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