Environmental Sustainability Manager

Balfour Beatty plc; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working

25 days annual leave (pro rata)

Pension & share incentive plan

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is seeking an experienced Environmental Sustainability Lead to drive the Doncaster Triangle programme’s sustainability approach from bid through to delivery. You will provide strategic leadership, embed environmental requirements, and coordinate with bid, design, planning and delivery teams.

You will oversee compliance with UK environmental legislation, manage risks, and build partnerships with clients, regulators and the supply chain, ensuring sustainability commitments are

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead environmental sustainability activity on complex infrastructure projects.
• Ability to influence design, programme, commercial and operational decisions at bid/pre-construction or delivery stage.
• Strong working knowledge of UK environmental legislation, environmental management and regulatory requirements.
• Experience identifying and managing environmental risks, opportunities, commitments and programme dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Provide environmental sustainability leadership across projects and programmes.
• Collaborate with bid, estimating, planning, design and project teams to embed environmental sustainability considerations from the earliest stages of project development.
• Lead or support environmental input into bids, tenders and pre-construction activities, ensuring environmental risks, constraints, opportunities and client requirements are identified and integrated into project strategies.
• Ensure environmental commitments, assumptions and obligations established during bid and pre-construction are transferred into project mobilisation and delivery.
• Ensure compliance with environmental legislation, permits, licences, planning conditions, client requirements and company standards.
• Identify, manage and mitigate environmental risks, constraints and opportunities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Develop and implement environmental management plans, sustainability plans and related project documentation.
• Advise project teams, designers and senior leaders on environmental and sustainability matters.
• Build and maintain relationships with clients, regulators, supply chain partners and other stakeholders.
• Lead or support environmental input into bids, tenders and pre-construction activities.

Skills

Environmental leadership

Influence design & programme

UK environmental legislation

Risk management

Stakeholder coordination

Client/regulator liaison

Technical writing

Travel flexibility

Education

IEMA/ISEP membership or equivalent

Job description

About The Role

Lead the environmental sustainability approach for the Doncaster Triangle programme

About The Role

Lead the environmental sustainability approach for the Doncaster Triangle programme

from bid and pre-construction through mobilisation and project delivery.

Provide strategic leadership across the bundled schemes, ensuring environmental risks, consenting requirements, client commitments and sustainability opportunities are identified early and integrated into design, programme, cost and construction planning. Maintain continuity and ownership as the role transitions from the ES Bid & Pre-construction Team into site-based delivery

Work under the direction of the Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor, contributing to continuous improvement, identifying trends across bids, and supporting the wider team in delivering best practice in pre-contract environmental management.

What you'll be doing

• Provide environmental sustainability leadership across projects and programmes.
• Work collaboratively with work-winning, estimating, planning, design and project teams to influence project outcomes and embed environmental sustainability considerations from the earliest stages of project development.
• Lead or support environmental input into bids, tenders and pre-construction activities, ensuring environmental risks, constraints, opportunities and client requirements are identified and integrated into project strategies.
• Ensure environmental commitments, assumptions and obligations established during bid and pre-construction are effectively transferred into project mobilisation and delivery.
• Ensure compliance with environmental legislation, permits, licences, planning conditions, client requirements and company standards.
• Identify, manage and mitigate environmental risks, constraints and opportunities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Develop and implement environmental management plans, sustainability plans and associated project documentation.
• Advise project teams, designers and senior leaders on environmental and sustainability matters.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with clients, regulators, supply chain partners and other stakeholders.
• Lead or support environmental input into bids, tenders and pre-construction activities.

Who we’re looking for

Essential

• Proven ability to lead environmental sustainability activity on complex infrastructure, engineering or construction projects.
• Ability to influence design, programme, commercial and operational decisions at bid, pre-construction or delivery stage.
• Strong working knowledge of UK environmental legislation, environmental management and regulatory requirements.
• Experience identifying and managing environmental risks, opportunities, commitments and programme dependencies.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary specialists and environmental supply- chain support.
• Ability to work confidently with clients, regulators, senior leaders, designers, planners, estimators, commercial teams and construction colleagues.
• Strong written communication, including the ability to develop and review tender responses, environmental plans, governance papers and management reports.
• Ability to lead through influence in a complex programme or matrix environment.
• Practitioner membership of IEMA/ISEP, or an equivalent professional body, or evidence of working towards an appropriate professional level.
• Ability to travel regularly between offices and project locations and to transition into a site-based role as the programme moves into delivery.

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?

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 want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We’re making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we’ve got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.

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