Senior Environmental Sustainability Manager - Peterhead

isepglobal; Peterhead, Netherton; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An environmental consultancy firm is seeking an experienced environmental and sustainability professional who has a background in construction. The ideal candidate will manage environmental impacts onsite and develop strategies for sustainability initiatives, such as carbon reduction. Responsibilities include compiling environmental plans, advising teams on compliance, and managing a team of specialists. This role offers flexibility, competitive benefits, and the opportunity to work on significant infrastructure projects in the UK.

Benefits

25 days paid annual leave

Family-friendly policies

Pension and share incentive plan

Volunteering leave

Qualifications

• Full clean driving licence and willingness to travel.
• Ability to develop environmental management plans.
• Experience with Waste Duty of Care requirements.

Responsibilities

• Compiling environmental plans and risk assessments.
• Advising on pollution prevention and compliance.
• Conducting site inspections and maintaining records.

Skills

Team management

Understanding of environmental legislation

Problem-solving for environmental challenges

Routine environmental inspections

Job description

About the role

Working on a large new energy hub at Netherton near Peterhead, this role requires an experienced Environment and Sustainability professional with good all‑round environment and sustainability experience.

This role is for someone with previous construction related experience who enjoys working onsite and managing day to day environmental impacts as well as bigger picture sustainability issues such as carbon reduction.

What you'll be doing

• Compiling requires environmental plans, method statements and risk assessments as part of the pre‑construction project phase.
• Providing advice to construction teams regarding pollution prevention and environmental best practice – this may be in the form of developing management plans, delivering training, site inspections or chairing meetings.
• Ensuring compliance with environmental legislation and the Environmental Statement commitments during all construction activities by way of regular site inspections.
• Maintaining a site waste management plan and collating the waste records for all waste movement offsite, including those from subcontractors.
• Maintaining and collating sustainability records such as waste, carbon and material sourcing records, including those from subcontractors.
• Undertaking and advising on noise and vibration monitoring.
• Undertaking and advising on water quality monitoring and sampling.
• Regular liaison with key environmental stakeholders including SEPA, NatureScot and Local Authorities.
• Reporting on and developing initiatives to improve environmental performance onsite.
• Ensuring compliance with environmental commitments within the contract and/or planning documents.
• Identifying more sustainable solutions for the project and wider industry, including working on new sustainability innovation projects.
• Leading teams of experts such as ecologists, archaeologists and designers to determine key control measures, targets and processes for the project.
• Advising project teams on start‑up documentation and licensing requirements for new projects.
• Working with and reporting to customers and other key stakeholders on a regular basis.
• Managing a team of ES advisors, potentially expanding out to managing a team of Environmental Managers and advisors in the North East of Scotland.

Who we're looking for

• The successful candidate must have a full clean driving licence and be happy to travel to a variety of locations with occasional stays away from home.
• Understanding of current environmental legislation and best practice relating to construction projects – including waste management, pollution prevention and material sourcing.
• Familiarity with routine environmental inspections and reporting for construction projects.
• Experience with Waste Duty of Care requirements and documents.
• Ability to assist in problem solving for environmental and sustainability challenges and P roviding opportunities for environmental innovation.
• Team management and management of environmental specialists.

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.

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too.

Why join us?

You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key 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 including 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

From Dunfermline’s tramways in 1909 to highland hospitals today, Balfour Beatty has been trusted for over a century to deliver complex and critical infrastructure and iconic buildings Scotland relies on.

We have the people, knowledge and experience to safely deliver projects right first time, maximising value for money and ensuring a positive social impact and inclusive economic growth for local communities.

Our award‑winning sustainable projects, including active travel, Passivhaus and retrofit, demonstrate our commitment to supporting Scotland’s transition towards net zero in the built environment.

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.

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].