HSE40025 - Environmental Advisor

EDF Energy Limited; Bridgwater; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Balfour Beatty is seeking an Environmental Advisor to ensure compliance with environmental regulations, promote sustainable practices, and manage environmental risks across site operations on the HPC project.

You will support CDM/E&S, engage with contractors, conduct EIAs, monitor performance data, and deliver training to raise environmental awareness; weekend/evening work may be required.

Qualifications

• Experience as an environmental advisor, ideally in the construction sector.
• PQTP demonstrating 1-2 years' experience working in environmental management and awareness of 14001 environmental management systems desirable but not essential.
• Diploma or bachelor’s degree in an environmental discipline (or similar).
• Driving licence.
• Construction Industry experience.
• For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Regulatory Compliance: Support for ensuring site activities meet environmental legislation, permits, and regulatory requirements.
• E&S Plan Implementation: Ensure the Environmental & Sustainability Plan, standards, and work instructions are understood and applied.
• Subcontractor Management: Monitor and manage environmental aspects at key interface points to minimise risk.
• Incident and Non-Conformance Support: Assist in investigation, reporting, and close-out of environmental incidents and non-conformances.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve environmental performance and sustainability.
• Environmental Risk Management: Support identification, assessment, and control of environmental risks across site operations.

Skills

Environmental advisory experience

PQTP knowledge

Driving licence

Education

Diploma or Bachelor's in environmental discipline

Job description

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Environmental Advisor
Balfour Beatty
HPC

Permanent

Role Purpose:

• As an Environmental Advisor, you will play a key role in ensuring compliance with environmental regulations, promoting sustainability, and managing environmental risks across site operations. You will support the Construction
• Design and Management / Environment & Sustainability (CDM/E&S)
• Manager in coordinating and controlling activities related to environmental aspects, with particular attention to interfaces between contractors and operational areas of the project.

Accountabilities:

• Regulatory Compliance: Accountable for supporting the implementation and ongoing compliance of site activities with relevant environmental legislation, permits, and regulatory requirements.
  
• E&S Plan Implementation: Responsible for ensuring that the company and site-specific Environmental & Sustainability (E&S) Plan, associated standards, and work instructions are effectively communicated, understood, and applied across relevant activities.
  
• Subcontractor Management: Responsible for monitoring and managing environmental aspects at key interface points between subcontractors and operational areas to minimise environmental risk and prevent non-compliance.
  
• Incident and Non-Conformance Support: Assist in the investigation, reporting, and close-out of environmental incidents and non-conformances, ensuring lessons learned are captured and communicated.
  
• Continuous Improvement: Accountable for identifying opportunities to improve environmental performance, promote sustainability, and contribute to a culture of environmental responsibility.
  
• Environmental Risk Management: Support the identification, assessment, and control of environmental risks across all site operations, ensuring appropriate mitigation measures are in place and effective.
  
• Environmental Advisory and Analytical Support: Provide a comprehensive range of advisory and analytical services. Undertake analytical assessments of environmental performance data (e.g. emissions, waste, water use, incidents) to inform decision-making and drive continual improvement.

The Environmental Advisor will be required to carry out the following activities:

• Compliance & Monitoring: Support the E&S Manager in ensuring all site activities align with the company’s Environmental & Sustainability (E&S) Plan, as well as site-specific standards and work instructions.
• Subcontractor Engagement: Assist in the creation, review, and development of environmental documents ensuring all documentation meets regulatory and project requirements.
• Interface Management: Provide environmental oversight at key interface points between contractors and between construction and operational zones, ensuring environmental risks are controlled and communicated effectively.
• Conduct Environmental Assessments: Perform detailed environmental impact assessments (EIAs) to identify potential environmental effects of projects and suggest mitigation strategies.
• Environmental Controls: Promote the implementation of best practices in environmental protection, pollution prevention, and sustainable resource use across the site.
• Support Audits and Inspections: Assist in the planning and delivery of environmental audits, inspections, and compliance checks to ensure effective implementation of control measures and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Reporting: Contribute to regular environmental reporting, including incident tracking, non-conformance management, and performance indicators.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Liaise with internal teams, contractors, and regulatory stakeholders to ensure environmental considerations are fully integrated into project delivery.
• Training and Awareness: Participate in HSE meetings, toolbox talks, and deliver regular training sessions to raise awareness of environmental issues, prevent incidents and promote sustainable practices.
• The role requires occasional weekend/ evening working to support site operations and ensure continuous environmental oversight.
• Additionally, you must meet the criteria for Security Vetting, which generally requires you to have been a UK resident for at least 3 of the last 5 years.

Minimum Qualifications/Experience

• Experience as an environmental advisor, ideally in the construction sector
  
• PQTP demonstrating 1-2 years' experience working in environmental management and awareness of 14001 environmental management systems desirable but not essential.
  
• Diploma or bachelor’s degree in an environmental discipline (or similar)
  
• Driving licence
  
• Construction Industry experience.
  
• For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Additional Qualifications/Experience

• Professional membership - IEMA associate member or similar desirable not essential.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home-grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they also have an eye on the future.

EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Nuclear power is the most reliable, low-carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low-carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education.

We’re not just building new nuclear power stations. We’re developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.

It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there’s always a need for more.

Our industry has a mind-boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry which is changing.

We’re a responsible business and proud to be Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.