Environmental Sustainability Manager - Glasgow

Balfour Beatty; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Balfour Beatty as an Environmental Sustainability Manager, where your expertise will contribute to significant infrastructure projects in Glasgow. This role involves managing environmental compliance, leading teams, and ensuring sustainability practices are integrated throughout the project lifecycle. Enjoy benefits like flexible working and professional development opportunities while making a real impact in the construction industry.

Benefits

Flexible working

Generous leave

Pension schemes

Share plans

Volunteering leave

Recognition schemes

Qualifications

• Practical experience with statutory environmental requirements and legislation.
• Experience in overseeing Graduate ES roles.
• Ability to deputize for a senior role.

Responsibilities

• Completion and updating of environmental documentation.
• Conducting regular site inspections for compliance.
• Managing and reporting environmental incidents.

Skills

Environmental management knowledge

Interpersonal skills

Planning skills

Communications skills

Organizational skills

Education

Membership at a professional body (IEMA/CIEEM/CIWEM)

Tools

MS Office

Job description

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About the role

Your contributions will help us create new opportunities and possibilities every day - for us, for the country's infrastructure, and for yourself. Join our Power T&D team as an Environmental Sustainability Manager on the OHL refurbishment project and open up new pathways you never dreamt possible.

What you'll be doing

• Completion, review, and update of company environmental documentation, sustainability delivery, and a variety of environmental risks and opportunities.
• Producing and maintaining permitting and licensing requirements for specific projects.
• Supporting with awards submission entries.
• Interpreting policy, regulation, and legislation across the portfolio.
• Providing visible ES support and leadership across the portfolio.
• Supporting high-level, complex projects from feasibility to post-construction with your E&S Team colleagues.
• Ensuring and reporting on environmental compliance.
• Conducting regular site inspections, including with clients or regulatory representatives.
• Identifying and promoting innovative solutions.
• Advising and guiding all levels within the project portfolio.
• Cascading ES information such as KPIs to the supply chain.
• Supporting work-winning activities by advising on ES issues like planning, permitting, and licensing.
• Attending work-winning interviews with clients.
• Supporting project/operations leads in identifying potential ES-related commercial impacts or opportunities and claims.
• Identifying best practices and case studies.
• Delivering ESA training or other awareness activities.
• Ensuring timely client and internal reporting.
• Managing and reporting all environmental incidents.
• Managing and maintaining EROA/IRIS systems.
• Driving sustainability action plans and informing key project decisions through data, assessments, audits, and incidents.
• Line managing ES advisors, coordinators, graduates, or apprentices.

Who we're looking for

• Full driving license and flexibility to travel.
• Membership at a professional body (IEMA/CIEEM/CIWEM) or equivalent experience and competence.
• Good knowledge of environmental management, especially in construction environments.
• Practical experience with statutory environmental requirements, legislation, ecology mitigation, licensing, and regulation.
• Experience overseeing, developing, and directing Graduate ES roles.
• Understanding of collaborative work benefits.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and influencing skills.
• Strong planning and organizational skills with determination to complete tasks.
• Ability to interpret and manage data via databases, maintain records, and write detailed reports.
• Willingness to visit worksites across Scotland and attend occasional meetings across the UK.
• Literate in MS Office applications.
• Ability to deputize for a more senior role, such as Lead Senior ES Manager.

Why work for us

Our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious projects, developing and maintaining vital infrastructure that supports national economies and communities.

Why join us?

We offer a rewarding environment with benefits such as flexible working, generous leave, pension schemes, share plans, volunteering leave, recognition schemes, and more.

About us

Balfour Beatty's Power Transmission & Distribution teams provide solutions across the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations, and distribution networks.

Diversity and inclusion

We value diversity and inclusion, actively working to create an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive. For more, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion. We are members of various inclusion initiatives and committed to equal opportunities, including supporting applicants with disabilities.