Overview

The role will provide direction, support and guidance to our project teams on all aspects of hands-on environmental management, meeting legal and company standards and helping deliver a culture of continual improvement.

It will support site-based project design construction controls and mitigations, sustainability opportunities and deliver against client led contractual requirements and BBPTD tactical aspects to achieve our strategic goals. A key part of the role will be engagement with clients, stakeholders, subcontractors, and environmental authorities.

What you’ll be doing

  • Completion, reviewing, updating of company environmental documentation, sustainability delivery and a variety environmental risks and opportunities.
  • Producing/maintaining permitting and licencing requirements for specific projects.
  • Support with Awards submission entries.
  • Fully interpret policy, regulation, and legislation across the portfolio.
  • Providing visible ES support across the portfolio.
  • Supports one or more high-level/value/complex projects through feasibility to post construction with the backing of your E&S Team colleagues.
  • Supports one or more standalone projects through feasibility to post construction.
  • Ensure and report on environmental compliance.
  • Regular site inspections, including those with client or regulatory representatives.
  • Identify and promote innovative solutions.

Who we’re looking for

  • Full UK driving license and flexibility to travel.
  • Professional Membership level of a relevant professional body (IEMA/CIEEM/CIWEM) or ability to demonstrate equivalent experience and competence.
  • Good knowledge of environment management with the relevant experience working in a construction environment.
  • Practical experience and sound knowledge of environmental statutory requirements, including environmental legislation, ecology mitigation, environmental licencing and consent applications and regulation.
  • Oversee, develop and direct Graduate ES roles across your portfolio.
  • Understanding of the benefits of working collaboratively to obtain the best outcome.
  • Good interpersonal, communication and influencing skills.
  • Determination to see tasks through to completion, with excellent planning and organisation skills.

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?

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…

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 want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We’re making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we’ve got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments.

We’re looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via candidaterecruitmentenquiries@balfourbeatty.com

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