Environmental Sustainability Manager

Balfour; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm in the UK is seeking an Environmental Sustainability Manager to lead the implementation of sustainability strategies across projects. You will provide strategic guidance, manage teams, and ensure compliance with environmental regulations. The ideal candidate has a degree in a related field and experience with ISO14001. This role offers flexibility with remote working options.

Benefits

Smart working options with up to 40% remote work

25 days paid annual leave

Family-friendly policies

Pension and share incentive plan

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of environmental documentation and permitting required.
• Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams and embed sustainability into project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of the Environmental Sustainability Strategy.
• Provide strategic sustainability expertise across the project lifecycle.
• Oversee environmental compliance, including audits and inspections.

Skills

Communicate global mega-trends driving the need to transform the world to sustainability

Team leadership and capability development

Strategic stakeholder engagement

Education

Degree in environmental/sustainability-related field

Tools

Business Management System (BMS)

ISO14001

Job description

Environmental Sustainability Manager

Environmental Sustainability Manager at Balfour Beatty plc.

About The Role

To lead the implementation of the Building New Futures strategy across a portfolio of projects or a major programme, ensuring compliance, performance and innovation. This role provides strategic guidance, manages teams and embeds sustainability into operational delivery and decision‑making. It is predominantly based at projects, sites, offices or depots, with travel across other projects, offices and stakeholder locations.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the implementation of the Environmental Sustainability Strategy and Bridging the Gap actions across a portfolio of projects, a major project or region, ensuring alignment with business priorities and Building New Futures commitments.
• Act as a trusted advisor to Project Directors and senior stakeholders, providing strategic guidance on compliance and sustainability, and influencing decision‑making to embed a culture of environmental leadership.
• Provide strategic sustainability expertise across the project lifecycle, including early‑stage planning, permitting and risk mitigation.
• Support the development and review of environmental documentation such as plans, permits and assessments, and advise on embedding sustainability into work‑winning and operational delivery.
• Oversee environmental compliance across the remit, including audits, inspections and engagement with clients and regulators, ensuring adherence to ISO14001 and the Business Management System (BMS).
• Represent the Environmental Sustainability function in work‑winning activities, responding to bespoke sustainability questions and promoting innovation.
• Translate sustainability data into operational improvements and ensure accurate reporting of performance, incidents and KPIs via the Sustainability Portal and other client or business systems.
• Line‑manage and develop Environmental Sustainability Advisors and Managers, ensuring capability, performance and succession planning.
• Plan and manage environmental sustainability resourcing, including forecasting demand and ensuring appropriate support is in place to deliver compliance and performance outcomes.
• Liaise with regulators, clients and external stakeholders to ensure effective delivery of sustainability and compliance objectives across the portfolio.
• Support the Head of Environmental Sustainability in regional governance, communications and strategic initiatives.

Who we’re looking for

Skills

• Communicate global mega‑trends driving the need to transform the world to sustainability.
• Communicate the concept of sustainable development.
• Regional strategy implementation.
• Team leadership and capability development.
• Strategic stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to lead multi‑disciplinary teams and embed sustainability into project delivery.

Knowledge

• Environmental documentation and permitting.
• Business Management System (BMS) and ISO14001.
• Work‑winning and operational sustainability integration.
• Understanding of sustainability requirements in tendering and bid processes.

Experience

• Overseeing compliance across multiple projects.
• Translating data into operational improvements.
• Representing sustainability in bids and client engagements.
• Leading environmental input into project mobilisation and close‑out.

Qualifications

• Degree in environmental/sustainability‑related field.
• Registered Environmental Practitioner (REnvP).
• Preferably working towards Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful workplace. Through our Value Every​d­ity 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

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/

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 [e-mail]

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Other

Industries

Construction