Environmental Advisor

Balfour Beatty plc; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A major construction firm seeks an Environmental Advisor to ensure compliance with environmental legislation for the HS2 project in Birmingham. Responsibilities include managing consents and developing environmental documentation. Candidates need a strong knowledge of environmental management systems and excellent communication skills. The role offers a full-time position on-site in Birmingham with a focus on sustainability and collaboration.

Benefits

Flexible working available

Travel allowance

Family friendly leave

Health risk assessments

Employee assistance programmes

Annual flu vaccinations

Qualifications

• A sound knowledge of environmental legislation and principles of environmental management systems.
• Experience of compiling, applying and compliance of environmental consents.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with environmental procedures and legal requirements.
• Compile environment consent packs and manage consents.
• Develop and maintain environmental documentation.

Skills

Knowledge of environmental legislation

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Planning and organization skills

Computer literacy

Job description

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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 Advisor within the Sustainability Function. This role will be based on site in Birmingham and Bromford.

Role Responsibilities:

• Identify / obtain / ensure compliance of works with Construction Code of Practice and other environmental procedural and legal requirements
• Working with delivery teams to compile environment consent packs prior to application. Management of consents and consent compliance.
• Development of EMS documentation and systems
• Develop and maintain the organisation of environmental documentation and other evidence to demonstrate compliance with procedures, policy and other contract or legal requirements.
• Development of environmental works solutions/mitigation and monitoring regimes
• Roll out of systems to ensure construction methodologies and programme meet Environmental Minimum Requirements and Project procedures/ management plans.
• Management of Environmental Opportunities and Risks, updating of register and progressing selected opportunity actions
• Develops and maintains relationships with key stakeholders and client representatives to ensure collaborative working relationships
• Appreciates the financial implications of decisions affecting environmental issues (e.g. waste costs, delays.) and seek to ensure best financial outcome for business

Experienced required

• A sound knowledge of environmental legislation and principles of environmental management systems
• Experience of compiling, applying and compliance of environmental consents.
• Firm grasp of the benefits of working collaboratively to obtain the best outcome
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience of delivering environmental based training.
• Determination to see tasks through to completion, with excellent planning and organisation skills
• High level of computer literacy

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.

Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

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Senior level: Associate

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Consulting, Civil Engineering