About The Role
Our work matters to millions. It’ll matter to you too. Join our
Power T&D team as a
Head of Sustainability: Scotland (Power) and you’ll be a big part of fascinating, complex, varied and meaningful work.
In your role as Regional Head of Environmental Sustainability, you’ll be responsible for setting and embedding the environmental sustainability strategy across your designated region. You’ll ensure it aligns with both your region’s operational priorities and the national sustainability agenda.
Reporting to the Environmental Sustainability Director and working closely with the Senior Operations Director, you’ll provide strategic leadership, technical direction, and governance to drive environmental performance, ensure compliance, and champion innovation across the region.
You’ll lead a team of Senior Environmental Sustainability Managers, building capability, driving consistent and effective delivery, and fostering a culture of environmental excellence throughout your region.
This is a pivotal role where you will shape regional sustainability policy, engage with key external stakeholders and regulatory bodies, and advise senior leaders—helping to protect the business from environmental risk. You’ll hold strategic accountability for regional performance and play a critical role in shaping the future direction of sustainability within the organisation.
This role is predominantly office based with national travel to projects and
stakeholder locations required
What you'll be doing
- Own and lead the development and implementation of the PT&D regional Environmental Sustainability (ES) strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with BBUK objectives and regional business priorities.
- Set strategic direction for environmental performance, risk management, and innovation across the region.
- Oversee governance of environmental documentation and systems (e.g., BMS), ensuring consistency, compliance, and continual improvement.
- Act as the regional lead for interpreting and embedding environmental policy, regulation, and legislation.
- Provide strategic leadership to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) on ES matters, influencing decision-making.
- Lead and develop the regional ES team, including line management of Senior Managers and Managers, ensuring capability, performance, and succession planning.
- Champion innovation and drive the adoption of emerging technologies and practices that enhance sustainability outcomes.
- Represent the region in national forums, industry groups, and client engagements on environmental matters.
- Sign off on high-profile submissions, including awards, tenders, and regulatory responses.
- Demonstrate visible sustainability leadership through regular site engagement, strategic reviews, and audits, ensuring alignment between regional strategy and on-the-ground delivery.
Who we're looking for
- Educated to degree level in Environmental Management or a related environmental discipline
- Chartered Environmentalist
- Extensive experience in environmental management, ideally within infrastructure or construction
- In-depth knowledge of current UK environmental legislation, with the ability to anticipate and respond to future regulatory changes
- Strong understanding of environmental management systems and their application in complex project environments
- Proven experience with planning and permitting frameworks
- Leads through consensus-building decision making. Inspires action across multiple teams through very high emotional intelligence. Values the gathering of a variety of complex information and seeing situations from multiple perspectives. Balances short-term functional objectives with longer- term strategic goals.
- Comprehensive knowledge of environmental issues and challenges within the construction sector
- Demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build relationships at all levels
- Experience supporting bids or tender submissions
- Commercial awareness and strategic thinking
- Ability to travel across the region and attend national meetings as required
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?
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…
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
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:
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