Overview

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for an Environment & Sustainability Advisor to join our Power T&D team based in North Yorkshire. As an Environment & Sustainability Advisor you will provide support and advice for operational teams on all aspects of environmental management, developing environmental documentation, meeting legal and company standards and helping deliver a culture of continual improvement. You will understand and work with Clients and Regulators to ensure their environmental requirements are complied with. Support on site mitigation, sustainability of works and engagement with local stakeholders and members of the public. We’re looking for someone who can provide support with tenders for work and so an understanding of environmental planning and permitting is required.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Provide advice and support to operational teams on environmental matters.
  • Develop and maintain local environmental management and sustainability plans.
  • Maintain relationships with regulators, clients and subcontractors.
  • Investigate and report incidents to the Environment & Sustainability Project Partner.
  • Ensure the environmental management system is maintained in line with changing standards and legislation and Client requirements.
  • Ensure on site compliance with environmental legislation and coach teams in applying controls and mitigations.

Who we’re looking for

Essential:

  • Understanding of environmental planning and permitting (essential)
  • DCO/Planning experience
  • Strong knowledge of environmental management and sustainable development
  • Educated to degree level in Environmental Science or Environmental Management
  • Practical experience and knowledge of environmental legislation, ecology and archaeology mitigation, environmental licences and consent applications and regulators
  • Understanding of ecological and archaeological matters and environmental law
  • Commercial awareness
  • Full drivers licence and flexibility to travel
  • Understanding of the utilities/construction/engineering operating environment
  • Literate in MS Office Word, Excel, Outlook

Desirable:

  • Internal environmental auditor qualification
  • Knowledge of the Construction Industry
  • IEMA Membership

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/

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