Overview
Your contributions will help us create new opportunities and possibilities every day – for us, for the country’s infrastructure, and for yourself. Join our Power T&D team as a Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor – Peterhead and North East Scotland in Peterhead and North East Scotland and open up new pathways you never dreamt possible.
What you’ll be doing:
- Completion, reviewing, updating of company environmental documentation, sustainability delivery and a variety of 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.
- Advise and guide all levels within the project portfolio.
- Ensure ES information e.g. KPIs are cascaded to supply chain.
- Support work winning advising on ES issues e.g. planning, permitting, and licensing requirements.
- Attend work winning interviews with clients.
- Identify Best Practice/Case Studies.
- Delivering ESSA/ESA training or other awareness activities.
- Ensure timely client and internal reporting.
- Manage and reporting all environmental incidents.
- Managing maintaining EROA/IRIS.
- Drive sustainability action plans and inform key project decisions through findings from data, assessments, audits, and incidents.
- Line management of ES advisors / coordinators / graduates or apprentices.
Who we’re looking for:
- Full 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.
- Interpreting and managing data via databases, consistent record keeping and writing detailed reports.
- Be able to visit worksites and offices across Scotland and attend occasional ES meetings across the UK.
- Literate in MS Office – Word, Excel, Outlook.
- Ability to deputise for more senior role (e.g. ES Manager).
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
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
