Environmental Sustainability Manager

at  Balfour Beatty

About the role
Our work matters to millions. It’ll matter to you too. Join our Highways team as a Environmental Sustainability Manager on the Highways team A63 Project and you’ll be a big part of fascinating, complex, varied and meaningful work.
In this role as Environmental Sustainability Manager, you can expect to manage and ensure our A63 Castle Street project is set up and delivered successfully in terms of environmental sustainability (ES). Working with the client, design and external stakeholders to ensure ES constructability is considered early, planned for and costed appropriately prior to construction. The role will also manage and ensure the project complies with all environmental legislation, consents, objectives, targets and other environmental commitments, including those arising from planning requirements throughout its construction. The role holder will also support upcoming work winning activities to ensure environmental compliance and sustainability are effectively considered and costed.
What you’ll be doing
In this role as Environmental Sustainability Manager, you will be responsible for -

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

• Promote a positive environmental culture through proactive engagement and communications with project teams, supply chain, client and statutory bodies
• Maintaining and updating plans and procedures throughout the duration of the works (EMP, Emergency Procedures, Mitigation Plans)
• Appoint, train and monitor performance of environmental staff on the project
• Act as a point of contact between the project team and regulatory authorities, the designer, the client and the supply chain
• Coordinate and undertake regular Site inspections with the construction teams to monitor compliance with environmental licences/consents/plans/procedures; implement follow-up corrective actions to ensure compliance
• Investigate environmental incidents and near miss events in accordance with Balfour Beatty standards to identify and share lessons learned.
• Keep record of all activities on Site, environmental problems identified, transgressions noted and a schedule of all tasks undertaken; and provide appropriate professional and practical advice to contractors, consultants and project team members associated with environmental and ecological issues
• Undertake Risk Assessment and Work Package Plan reviews to ensure that these documents are suitable and sufficient for the tasks to be undertaken and comply with the minimum company requirements. Applies to direct and subcontract works.
  Who we’re looking for
  As Environmental Sustainability Manager , the following experience is essential for the role -

THE FOLLOWING QUALITIES/EXPERIENCE ARE DESIRABLE:

• Ability to seek out and deliver innovative methods of training and instruction, together with adaptive styles of communication with the workforce and staff alike
  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.

• 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