Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor - North East, Scotland - Keith

Power T&D

Health Safety Environment

Keith

Permanent

About the role

Our work matters to millions. It’ll matter to you too. Join our Power T&D team as a Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor in Keith, Scotland and you’ll be a big part of fascinating, complex, varied and meaningful work.

What you'll be doing

• 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
• Supports one or more standalone projects through feasibility to post
  construction.
• Ensure and report on environmental compliance.
• Regular site inspections, including those with client or regulatory
  representatives
• Identify and promote innovative solutions.
• Advise and guide all levels within the project portfolio.
• Ensure ES information e.g. KPIs are cascaded to supply chain.
• Support work winning advising on ES issues e.g. planning, permitting, and
  licensing requirements.
• Attend work winning interviews with clients
• Identify Best Practice/Case Studies
• Delivering ESSA/ESA training or other awareness activities
• Ensure timely client and internal reporting
• Manage and reporting all environmental incidents
• Managing maintaining EROA/IRIS
• Drive sustainability action plans and inform key project decisions through
  findings from data, assessments, audits, and incidents
• Line management of ES advisors / coordinators / graduates or apprentices

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.
• Understanding of the benefits of working collaboratively to obtain the best
  outcome.
• Good interpersonal, communication and influencing skills.
• Determination to see tasks through to completion, with excellent planning
  and organisation skills.
• Interpreting and managing data via databases, consistent record keeping
  and writing detailed reports.
• Be required to visit worksites and offices across Scotland and attend
  occasional ES meetings across the UK.
• Literate in MS Office - Word, Excel, Outlook.
• Ability to deputise for more senior role (e.g. ES Manager).

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

We are 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: [email protected]