Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor

Balfour; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure company in the UK is seeking an experienced Environmental Manager to oversee environmental compliance and sustainability initiatives. The role involves engaging with clients, stakeholders, and environmental authorities, supporting project design and construction controls, and promoting innovative solutions. Ideal candidates will have professional membership in a relevant body, a solid background in environmental management, and excellent communication skills. The position offers flexible working arrangements with up to 40% remote work.

Benefits

25 days paid annual leave

Pension and share incentive plan

Family-friendly policies

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Full UK driving licence and flexibility to travel.
• Good knowledge of environmental management with relevant experience.
• Practical experience with environmental legislation.

Responsibilities

• Provide direction on all aspects of environmental management.
• Ensure and report on environmental compliance.
• Support site-based project design and construction controls.

Skills

Environmental management

Interpersonal skills

Communication and influencing skills

Analytical skills

Education

Professional Membership (IEMA/CIEEM/CIWEM)

Job description

About The Role

The role will provide direction, 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 licensing 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.

Who we're looking for

• Full UK driving licence 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 licensing 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.
• 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 required to visit worksites and offices across Scotland and attend occasional ES meetings across the UK.

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.

Diversity and 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 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.

Commitment to an inclusive culture

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]