Environmental Sustainability Advisor - Bid & Pre-Construction

Balfour Beatty plc; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 59,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working

25 days annual leave (pro rata)

Pension and recognition schemes

Volunteer leave and share incentive

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is seeking an environmental and sustainability professional to provide support across bid and pre-construction activities, helping to develop high-quality tender submissions and early-stage project planning.

You will identify environmental risks and opportunities, ensuring they are integrated into project design and delivery strategies, and will liaise with clients, regulators and subcontractors to implement robust environmental plans.

Qualifications

• Degree in Environmental Science or Environmental Management (essential).
• Experience in environmental field within the construction industry (essential).
• Experience managing people/teams (essential).
• Knowledge of environmental legislation, ecology mitigation, licences and regulators (essential).
• Understanding of PIEEM or IEMA membership (essential).
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel (essential).
• Understanding of utilities/construction operating environment (essential).
• Internal environmental auditor qualification (desirable).
• Competent ecological surveyor for protected species (desirable).
• Master’s degree (desirable).
• NEBOSH H&S Diploma or equivalent (desirable).

Responsibilities

• Deliver value adding environment projects and support ecological enhancements, including net gains.
• Liaise with client, regulatory bodies and subcontractors on environmental management and sustainability.
• Produce and update environmental management plans and risk assessments.
• Produce sustainability plans per project and region.
• Report on environmental and sustainability performance to client and Environmental Manager.
• Contribute sustainability content to the team’s communications plan.
• Support Project Managers in managing subcontract and supply chain to meet contractual obligations.
• Provide guidance to senior leadership on strategic objectives.

Skills

Environment management

People management

Construction industry experience

Regulatory & environmental law

PIEEM/IEMA member

Full UK driving licence

Travel flexibility

Education

Degree in Environmental Science/Management

Master’s degree in a relevant field

Internal environmental auditor qualification

NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent

Job description

About the role

Provide environmental and sustainability support across bid and pre-construction activities, contributing to the development of high-quality tender submissions and early-stage project planning. Support the identification of environmental risks, constraints, and opportunities, ensuring they are considered and integrated into project design, programme, and delivery strategy from the outset.

What you’ll be doing

• Deliver value adding environment projects and support ecological enhancements, including net gains.
• Liaise with client, regulatory bodies and subcontractors on matters of environmental management and sustainability.
• Produce and update environmental management plans and environmental risk assessments.
• Produce sustainability and involved plans, per project and overarching the region.
• Report on environmental and sustainability performance to both the Client and the Environmental Manager.
• Feed into the business stream’s communications plan with sustainability content and use communications and improvements to engage staff on an on‑going basis.
• Support Project Managers in managing subcontract and supply chain, ensuring projects delivered as per contractual obligations and commercially viable.
• Provide guidance to senior leadership and management on strategic objectives.

Who we’re looking for

Essential:

• Knowledge of environment management
• Educated to degree level in Environmental Science, Environmental Management.
• Experience of working within the environmental field in the construction industry.
• Experience managing people/teams.
• Practical experience and knowledge of environmental legislation, ecology mitigation, environmental licences and consent applications and regulators.
• Understanding of ecological matters and environmental law · PIEEM, or IEMA Membership.
• Full UK driver’s licence and flexibility to travel.
• Understanding of the utilities/construction/engineering operating environment ·

Desirable:

• Internal environmental auditor qualification.
• Competent ecological surveyor for one protected species.
• Master’s degree in relevant field.
• NEBOSH H&S Diploma or equivalent.

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 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

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]