Senior Environmental Sustainability Manager

Balfour; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction and engineering firm in the UK is looking for a Senior Environmental Sustainability Manager to lead initiatives on the Skye Reinforcement Project. The role involves overseeing sustainability efforts, managing a team, and ensuring compliance with environmental standards. Candidates should have a strong environmental management background and relevant professional memberships. This position offers flexible working conditions, a competitive benefits package, and the opportunity to impact project delivery significantly.

Benefits

Smart working options

25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)

Family friendly policies

Pension and share incentive plan

Qualifications

• Professional membership (IEMA/CIEEM/CIWEM) or equivalent experience.
• Strong environmental management background.
• Excellent knowledge of legislation, ecology, mitigation and licensing.
• Confident communicator able to influence at all levels.
• Strong organisational, reporting and analytical skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and lead a small team effectively.
• Flexibility to travel.

Responsibilities

• Provide visible environmental and sustainability leadership across the project.
• Manage and support a team of ES Advisors, Coordinators and graduates.
• Ensure compliance with legislation, consents, permits and environmental standards.
• Lead environmental inspections, audits and incident management.
• Oversee environmental documentation, reporting and client submissions.
• Identify sustainability opportunities and drive action plans.
• Engage with regulators, stakeholders and specialist consultants.

Skills

Environmental management

Legislation knowledge

Team management

Communication

Analytical skills

Education

Professional membership (IEMA/CIEEM/CIWEM)

Job description

About The Role

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a new Senior Environmental Sustainability Manager to join our Power Transmission and Distribution business working on the Skye Reinforcement Project. You’ll work closely with internal and external stakeholders, champion sustainability opportunities, and help ensure project delivery aligns with client expectations, regulatory requirements and Balfour Beatty’s strategic environmental goals. This is a key leadership role, managing a team of Environmental Sustainability professionals and collaborating with a range of specialist consultants, ecological teams and environmental authorities.

What you’ll be doing

• Provide visible environmental and sustainability leadership across the project.
• Manage and support a team of ES Advisors२२, Coordinators and graduates.
• Ensure compliance with legislation, consents, permits and environmental standards gebouw.
• Lead environmental inspections, audits and incident management.
• Oversee environmental documentation, reporting and client submissions.
• Identify sustainability opportunities and drive action plans.
• Engage with regulators, stakeholders and specialist consultants.
• Support work‑winning activities, including planning, permitting and client interviews.
• Prepare case studies, best practice examples and award submissions.
• Interpret environmental policy and advise project teams on requirements.

Who we Euglass are looking for

• Professional membership (IEMA/CIEEM/CIWEM) or equivalent experience.
• Strong environmental management background.
• Excellent knowledge of legislation, ecology, mitigation and licensing.
• Confident communicator able to influence at all levels.
• Strong organisational, reporting and analytical skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and lead a small team effectively.
• Flexibility to travel.

Why work for us

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 نفسي 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 Customized plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where opportunity sequence. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

ToIGINAL we want to create an inclusive culture_dup we are members of WISE, ENEI, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minor 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 a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence ' Employer docs Recognistion Scheme' and actively encourages 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 offer 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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