Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor

Balfour Beatty plc; Dundee; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working

25 days annual leave

Family friendly policies

Pension

Share incentive plan

Volunteering leave

Recognition schemes

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is seeking a Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor to support major projects across Scotland within the Power business unit. You will provide expert leadership on environmental strategy, drive regulatory compliance, and mentor junior staff to deliver sustainable infrastructure outcomes.

The role emphasizes collaboration with clients, regulators, and project teams to ensure high environmental standards across feasibility, design, and construction phases.

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in environmental sustainability on large infrastructure projects.
• Experience engaging with regulatory authorities and ensuring compliance.
• Ability to lead and mentor junior advisors and coordinate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert guidance on environmental strategy across multiple projects.
• Lead ecological considerations and liaise with NatureScot, SEPA, Marine Scotland and Local Authorities.
• Oversee environmental performance reporting and drive data quality improvements.
• Manage permitting and licensing requirements across project lifecycles.
• Provide on-site support from feasibility through post-construction and mentor junior staff.
• Collaborate with clients, subcontractors and environmental specialists to deliver sustainable solutions.
• Advise work-winning teams on planning, permitting and environmental requirements.

Skills

Environmental Sustainability

Ecology background

Regulatory engagement

Team leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Environmental legislation

Job description

About the role

At Balfour Beatty, we’re on a journey to lead the way in sustainable infrastructure. We’re looking for a Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor to join our Power business unit, supporting major projects across Scotland. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real impact by ensuring our projects meet the highest environmental standards while helping us deliver long-term, positive outcomes for our clients, communities, and the environment.

What you'll be doing

As a Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor, you’ll play a key role in providing expert guidance and leadership across multiple projects. You will:

• Support project teams in meeting environmental and sustainability commitments, ensuring compliance with legal, client, and Balfour Beatty standards.
• Lead on ecological considerations, liaising with regulatory bodies including NatureScot, SEPA, Marine Scotland and Local Authorities.
• Oversee environmental performance reporting, driving continuous improvement in data quality and outcomes.
• Manage permitting and licensing requirements for projects, ensuring compliance at every stage.
• Provide visible site-based support, from feasibility through to post-construction.
• Line manage and mentor junior Environmental Sustainability Advisors, Coordinators, and graduates.
• Collaborate with clients, stakeholders, subcontractors, consultants, and environmental specialists to deliver innovative, sustainable solutions.
• Support our work-winning teams by advising on planning, permitting, and environmental requirements.

Who we’re looking for

We’re seeking someone who brings:

• Proven expertise in environmental sustainability, ideally with an ecology background.
• Experience engaging with regulatory authorities and managing environmental compliance on large infrastructure projects.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to manage teams and subcontractors.
• A collaborative approach, with confidence in engaging clients, stakeholders, and partners.
• Excellent knowledge of environmental legislation, permitting, and best practice.

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]