Environmental Sustainability Advisor

Company: Balfour Beatty plc
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Location: Birmingham
Job Description:

About the role

To support and coordinate environmental sustainability performance across the N1N2 assets, helping project teams deliver compliant and sustainable construction activities.

The role provides practical site advice, assurance, reporting, training and continual improvement across Bromford Intermediate, Bromford East, Long Itchington Wood North and Long Itchington Wood South.

What you’ll be doing

  • Manage N1N2 environmental risks and opportunities and confirm that identifiedoperational controls are implemented, monitored and effective.
  • Complete planned and unplanned site inspections across the four assets, assignactions, record findings on the relevant project system and track actions through toclose-out.
  • Review RAMS, work packages and construction methodologies for controls relating towaste, COSHH, concrete washout, silt, refuelling, spill response, works near water,dust, noise, working hours, ecology and sensitive receptors.
  • Monitor high-risk and changing activities, including dewatering, concrete works,excavation, lifting, waste movement, out-of-hours works and works near water orecological constraints.
  • Support applications for, and compliance with, environmental consents, licences andpermits, ensuring project teams understand conditions and interface responsibilities.
  • Coordinate monthly BBCL and BBV sustainability reporting, including the collection,validation and retention of evidence for energy, fuel, water, waste, materials andresponsible sourcing data.
  • Provide environmental input to SHELT, SELT, high-risk activity reviews and projectleadership discussions, highlighting current risks, incidents, performance, upcomingactivities and assurance findings.
  • Investigate environmental incidents and near misses, support root-cause review,communicate lessons learned and verify that corrective actions are effective.

Who we’re looking for

  • Working knowledge of UK environmental legislation and construction-relatedcompliance requirements, including pollution prevention, waste duty of care, waterprotection, nuisance, ecology and environmental incident management.
  • Experience of construction site inspections, environmental assurance, RAMS review,incident investigation and advising operational teams on practical mitigation.
  • Ability to collect, validate, analyse and present environmental and sustainabilityperformance data, maintaining a clear supporting audit trail.
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to engage projectleadership, site teams, clients, specialists and supply-chain partners.
  • Ability to work across multiple active sites, prioritise emerging risks and provide timely, proportionate advice in a changing construction environment.
  • A suitable environmental or sustainability qualification is preferred. RegisteredEnvironmental Practitioner status, or progress towards an appropriate professionalmembership, is desirable.
  • A full UK driving licence is desirable due to regular travel between N1N2 sites, subjectto reasonable adjustments and practical travel arrangements.

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

Operating across England and Wales, our buildings teams create places where people live, are cared for, work, learn, meet and have fun, with a focus on the aviation, health, defence, education and development sectors.

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 candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com

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Posted: September 13th, 2026