Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor - Aberdeen

Balfour Beatty; Aberdeen City; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure company in Aberdeen seeks an experienced environmental manager to provide guidance on environmental management and ensure compliance with regulations. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in ecology, a relevant professional membership, and experience in the construction sector. The role includes overseeing project teams, conducting site inspections, and producing environmental documentation. This position offers flexibility, competitive benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Smart working flexibility

25 days paid annual leave

Family friendly policies

Pension and share incentive plan

Qualifications

• Expert level ecology bias and experience with environmental regulatory bodies.
• Practical experience with environmental statutory requirements.
• Ability to oversee and develop Graduate Environmental Sustainability roles.

Responsibilities

• Support project teams with environmental management and sustainability commitments.
• Oversee monthly performance reporting against client KPIs.
• Conduct regular site inspections with regulatory representatives.

Skills

Driving license

Knowledge of environmental management

Experience in construction environment

Liaising with regulatory bodies

Education

Professional membership (IEMA/CIEEM/CIWEM)

Job description

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About the role

The role will provide direction, support and guidance to our project teams on all aspects of hands-on environmental management, meeting legal and company standards and helping deliver a culture of continual improvement.

It will support site-based project design construction controls and mitigations, sustainability opportunities and deliver against client led contractual requirements and BBPTD tactical aspects to achieve our strategic goals. A key part of the role will be engagement with clients, stakeholders, subcontractors, and environmental authorities.

What you'll be doing

• Work closely with project teams to deliver environmental and sustainability commitments, ensuring ongoing compliance with Balfour Beatty BMS and customer requirements, working with clients such as SSEN and or SPEN.
• Have an expert level ecology bias and experience liaising with Regulatory bodies, including but not limited to Nature Scot, SEPA, Marine Scotland and Local Planning Authorities.
• Oversee monthly performance reporting against client KPIs and internal targets, seeking to make continuous improvements in process and quality of data.
• Completion, reviewing, updating of company environmental documentation, sustainability delivery and a variety environmental risks and opportunities
• Producing/maintaining permitting and licencing requirements for specific projects.
• Support with awards submission entries
• Fully interpret policy, regulation, and legislation across the portfolio
• Providing visible ES support across the portfolio.
• Supports one or more high-level/value/complex projects through feasibility to post construction with the backing of your E&S Team colleagues
• Ensure and report on environmental compliance.
• Regular site inspections, including those with client or regulatory representatives.

Who we're looking for

• Full driving license and flexibility to travel
• Professional Membership level of a relevant professional body (IEMA/CIEEM/CIWEM) or ability to demonstrate equivalent experience and competence.
• Good knowledge of environment management with the relevant experience working in a construction environment.
• Practical experience and sound knowledge of environmental statutory requirements, including environmental legislation, ecology mitigation, environmental licencing and consent applications and regulation.
• Oversee, develop and direct Graduate ES roles across your portfolio.
• Be required to visit worksites and offices across Scotland and attend occasional ES meetings across the UK.

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.

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, share this with us at [e-mail]