Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project?
Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain’s new high speed railway. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we’re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you’d join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.
We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as an Environmental Advisorwithin the Sustainability Function. This role will be based on site in Birmingham.
Role Responsibilities
• Support SEMs in their activities and project objectives
• Fully understands the legal and Client requirements/conditions of contract, as they relate to environmental sustainability issues
• Ensure compliance of works with Construction Code of Practice and other environmental requirements
• Working within the sublot environmental teams to facilitate compliance and implementation of environmental processes
• Develop and or contribute to environmental documentation, systems and processes
• Review of routewide RAMS and documentation for routewide teams
• Environmental support function for Routewide & Logistics (RWL) teams
Experienced required
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Determination to see tasks through to completion, with excellent planning and organisation skills
• Understanding of the benefits of working collaboratively to problem solve and obtain the best outcome. Must demonstrate the ability to work as part of the team to ensure compliance
• Must be flexible and adaptable and willing to undertake multiple duties as required by a dynamic and challenging project environment
• Must demonstrate a willingness to complete training and workplace development opportunities
• Good IT skills and confident in the use of Office applications – Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Full driving licence and ability to work at multiple locations
• Must prioritise health, safety and welfare at all times
• Good understanding of environmental legislation, guidance and standards relevant to the proposed work
• Experience of construction environmental management.
• Degree in an environmental or scientific discipline and/or relevant career experience
Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.
Benefits of working with us
• Flexible working available for some roles
• Travel allowance for eligible candidates
• Family friendly leave policies
• Health risk assessments
• Access to employee assistance programmes
• Access to annual flu vaccinations
About Balfour Beatty VINCI
Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI’s role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.
Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:
• 9.3km of viaducts
• 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels
• 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses
Diversity and Inclusion
Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality,Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.
We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.
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