Environmental Sustainability Manager Rail Systems
Company
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
8/15/2025
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Description
About The Role
Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. They’re an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise. Join our Enabling Functions (Rail) team as a Environmental Sustainability Manager Rail Systems and you’ll deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you.
Due to the location of the projects, the role needs to be based South-East/London but the requirement is for regular travel across England and Wales to support wider teams and projects
What you'll be doing
The following experience is crucial to the role -
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?
Benefits
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:
Balfour Beatty works at the heart of the UK’s rail networks – designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of the railways that connect communities and underpin growth.
From feasibility studies, planning and design through to implementation and asset management, we provide multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure services across the lifecycle of rail assets. Our expertise covers electrification, track, power, civils, specialist rail plant, railway systems and technologies.
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: [email protected]
Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. They’re an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise. Join our Enabling Functions (Rail) team as a Environmental Sustainability Manager Rail Systems and you’ll deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you.
Due to the location of the projects, the role needs to be based South-East/London but the requirement is for regular travel across England and Wales to support wider teams and projects
What you'll be doing
- To work with the Operations Director and Head of Sustainability for Rail to: Ensure projects are compliant with the environmental and sustainability requirements of the UK Business Management System (BMS) Manage and work with project teams to ensure delivery of ES requirements and provide technical advice, guidance and support on environmental and sustainability matters
- Oversee contractual and regulatory requirements, regularly inspecting depots, sites and contract deliverables to ensure compliance and advise the HSW advisors on ES matters
- Support winning business teams with environment and sustainability responses for tenders
- Actively contribute to learning, sharing and best practice via BB and clients
- Maintain environmental plans and commitments
- Report contract performance and best practice case studies
- Support delivery of UK and Group Zero Harm and Sustainability action plans
- Lead and manage the overall capability, development, deployment and performance of Environment and Sustainability requirements within Rail Systems
- Assess environmental and social risks and opportunities and maintain the required management plans, and other requirements
- Translate and ensure compliance against BMS standards, procedures and policies
- Support the delivery of the sustainability performance management and reporting for the designated work area, analysing trends to build improvement in line with contract requirements
- Ensure sustainability data from projects is uploaded onto the sustainability portal on a monthly basis
- Carry out investigations on environmental incidents and feedback any lessons learned
- Support project teams to ensure they are compliant with all customer contract requirements, environmental legislation and the environmental processes and procedures outlined in the BMS
- Utilise the findings from reporting data, assessments, external and internal audits to drive performance improvements
- Provide on-going expertise, support and coaching to contracts, projects and offices through regular and structured site visits and communications.
- Assist in the development of case studies and lessons learnt
- Live the Balfour Beatty Values
- Maintain and develop wider HSW and ES skills and knowledge
- Ensure the Project Manager and other managers are kept appraised of any legislative, or other impending changes, which could affect the construction practices
The following experience is crucial to the role -
- Full Driving Licence to fulfil mobile element of role
- Experience of working in a construction environment
- Recognised Environmental Institution qualification
- Substantial Environmental experience
- Some experience in an operational railway environment
- Knowledge and experience of Environmental and sustainability legislation
- Line Management
- Communication
- Client Focus
- Influence and persuasion
- Teamworking
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?
Benefits
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…
Balfour Beatty works at the heart of the UK’s rail networks – designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of the railways that connect communities and underpin growth.
From feasibility studies, planning and design through to implementation and asset management, we provide multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure services across the lifecycle of rail assets. Our expertise covers electrification, track, power, civils, specialist rail plant, railway systems and technologies.
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: [email protected]
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