Environmental Sustainability Advisor

Balfour Beatty plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working

25 days annual leave

Pension & incentives

Volunteering leave

Recognition schemes

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is seeking an Environmental Specialist to support the delivery of sustainability on major projects in the UK. You will oversee environmental management, compliance, and reporting while guiding site teams on mitigation measures and regulatory interactions.

The role includes liaising with clients and authorities, maintaining plans and risk assessments, and ensuring adherence to evolving standards and legislation on site.

Qualifications

• Degree in environmental science, management, or related field.
• Experience with environmental legislation, ecology/archaeology mitigation, licences/permits.
• Understanding of construction/engineering environments and NSIPs or DCO is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and monitor environmental projects and enhancements on sites.
• Maintain environmental plans, risk assessments, and information packs.
• Liaise with clients, regulators, and subcontractors on environmental matters.
• Provide on-site guidance on compliance and site-specific mitigation measures.
• Investigate incidents and support controls to prevent recurrence.
• Ensure project sites implement environmental management systems and stay updated with standards.

Skills

Environmental management

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder engagement

Site supervision

Education

Degree in Environmental Science/Environmental Management

Tools

MS Office

EMS knowledge

Job description

About the role

To support the delivery of environmental sustainability on projects, ensuring compliance, stakeholder engagement, and performance reporting in line with the Building New Futures strategy. This role combines hands‑on operational delivery with early‑stage team guidance and influence.

What you’ll be doing

• Deliver value adding environment projects and support ecological enhancements.
• Contribute and maintain Involved Plans and monitor compliance across the project.
• Liaise with client, regulatory bodies and subcontractors on matters of environmental management and sustainability.
• Produce and update environmental management plans, environmental risk assessments and site information packs.
• Provide on-site advice to operations and design teams on environmental management, compliance and project specific mitigation measures including pollution control and ecological and archaeological protection.
• Investigate environmental incidents and support the business to implement controls to prevent repeat occurrence.
• Ensure implementation of the project environmental management systems on project sites.
• Be aware of any changes to standards and legislation and where applicable recommend changes to systems and processes.

Who we’re looking for

• Knowledge of environment management and sustainable development/
• Educated to degree level or able to demonstrate equivalent competence and experience in Environmental Science or Environmental Management or other applicable disciplines.
• Practical experience and knowledge of environmental legislation, ecology and archaeology mitigation, environmental licences, consent applications and regulators.
• Understanding of ecological and archaeological matters and environmental law.
• IEMA Membership
• Full UK driver’s licence and flexibility to travel.
• Understanding of the construction/engineering operating environment
• Knowledge or experience of DCO and NSIPs

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]