Senior Environmental Sustainability Manager - London

Balfour Beatty; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure firm in the UK is seeking a strategic leader for environmental sustainability. This role involves the implementation of sustainability strategies, promoting cultural change within teams, and ensuring compliance with environmental regulations. Ideal candidates will hold a degree in a relevant field and possess strong experience in leading teams and managing sustainability initiatives. Join us to make a significant impact on both local and national infrastructure projects.

Benefits

Smart working

25 days paid annual leave

Family friendly policies

Qualifications

• Experience in managing area-wide sustainability teams.
• Leading internal assurance and audit programmes.
• Understanding of business risk frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of the Environmental Sustainability Strategy.
• Promote sustainable mindset across the group.
• Oversee governance processes and continuous improvement.

Skills

Strategic integration and governance

Driving cultural change

Understanding environmental legislation

Managing sustainability teams

Education

Degree in environmental / sustainability-related field

Job description

About the role

To provide strategic and operational leadership across multiple projects or regions, driving the delivery of the Building New Futures strategy.

This role leads teams, manages senior stakeholder relationships, and ensures sustainability is embedded into business planning and performance.

What you'll be doing

• Lead the development and implementation of the Environmental Sustainability Strategy and Bridging the Gap plans across the area, ensuring alignment with Building New Futures commitments.
• Oversee the management and development of Environmental Sustainability teams, fostering a #OneTeam culture and ensuring resource planning, capability, and succession.
• Promote a sustainable mindset across the group by engaging and inspiring individuals to embed sustainability into their functions and behaviours.
• Provide strategic sustainability expertise to business units and project teams, supporting work winning, operational delivery and innovation.
  • Represent sustainability in bid responses and client engagements, aligning proposals with Building New Futures commitments.
• Drive cultural change by embedding sustainability into business-as-usual processes and the Business Management System (BMS).
• Lead internal assurance activities and support external audits, ensuring compliance with environmental regulations, ISO14001, the Business Management System (BMS), and company policies.
• Oversee governance processes and drive continuous improvement of compliance performance across the area, including the development of training and action plans to address recurring issues and inform strategic decision-making.
• Ensure compliance and performance data informs strategic decision-making and is accurately reported through internal and client systems.
• Contribute to business unit communications, sharing sustainability insights, performance, and opportunities for improvement.
• Plan and manage environmental sustainability resourcing, including forecasting demand and ensuring appropriate support is in place to deliver compliance and performance outcomes.
• Report good practice and near misses using the Observation App, and encourage others to do the same.

Who we're looking for

• Strategic integration and governance
• Driving cultural change and continuous improvement
• Leading internal assurance and audit programmes and reviews, and driving governance improvements
• Understand global mega-trends and how they drive the need to transform the world to sustainability
• Understand how environmental limits and the equalities agenda support economic growth and sustainable capital
• Environmental legislation and trends in construction
• Business strategy and sustainability alignment
• Understanding of business risk frameworks and how sustainability integrates with strategic planning.
• Governance processes and performance reporting
  Experience.
• Managing area-wide sustainability teams
• Leading training and action planning
• Supporting SLT communications and decision-making
• Developing and implementing area-wide sustainability improvement plans.
  Qualifications.
• Degree in environmental / sustainability-related field preferred
• Registered Environmental Practitioner (REnvP) preferred, may be working towards Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv).

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 Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

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 reach their full potential, regardless of your 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]