Ecology Manager - Lower Thames Crossing - London

Balfour Beatty; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure firm is seeking a Strategic Sustainability Lead to guide the implementation of environmental strategies across major projects in Greater London. The role involves providing strategic guidance, ensuring compliance with sustainability standards, and fostering a culture of environmental leadership within the organization. The ideal candidate will have a degree in a related field and experience in stakeholder engagement and team management. The firm offers flexible working conditions and a range of employee benefits.

Benefits

Smart working with up to 40% remote working

25 days paid annual leave

Family friendly policies

Pension and share incentive plan

Qualifications

• Degree in environmental/sustainability-related field preferred.
• Registered Environmental Practitioner (REnvP) preferred, may be working towards Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv).
• Knowledge of Business Management Systems (BMS).

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of the Environmental Sustainability Strategy.
• Act as a trusted advisor to Project Directors and senior stakeholders.
• Translate sustainability data into operational improvements.

Skills

Environmental documentation and permitting

Strategic stakeholder engagement

Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams

Communicating global mega-trends

ISO 14001 compliance

Education

Degree in environmental/sustainability-related field

Registered Environmental Practitioner (REnvP)

Job description

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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.

What you'll be doing

• Demonstrate visible sustainability leadership across the portfolio, engaging regularly with project teams to promote accountability, collaboration, innovation and a sustainable mindset.
• 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.
• Drive continuous improvement by sharing best practice, lessons learned, and innovations across the remit.
• Line manage and develop Environmental Sustainability Advisors and Managers, ensuring capability, performance, and succession planning.

Who we're looking for

• Communicate global mega-trends driving the need to transform the world to sustainability.
• Communicate the concept of sustainable development
• Regional strategy implementation
• Strategic stakeholder engagement
• Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams and embed sustainability into project delivery.
• Environmental documentation and permitting
• Business Management System (BMS) and ISO 14001
• Representing sustainability in bids and client engagements
• Leading environmental input into project mobilisation and close-out. Qualifications.
• Degree in environmental / sustainability-related field preferred
• Registered Environmental Practitioner (REnvP) preferred, may be 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.

Why join us?

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. 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 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 Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

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]