About The Role
The purpose of the role is: To lead the environment & sustainability teams within the Enabling and Earthworks team and providing sustainability and environmental leadership, co-ordination, support and advice on all aspects of sustainability and the environment. This also includes ensuring that the CWA meets all legal and company standards and help deliver a culture of continual improvement whilst ensuring contractual and regulatory requirements are delivered.
Though this role will be focussed on the SZC project, there will be expectations for reach back into the parent company and to ensure alignment to corporate strategy and lessons learnt.
What you'll be doing
- Support implementation of the E&S strategy for the Civil Works Alliance (CWA), reporting monthly to the Delivery Leadership Team.
- Provide E&S leadership, guidance, and support across all project levels, including directors, managers, engineers, staff, and subcontractors.
- Manage, mentor, and develop the E&S team, ensuring resources align with project needs.
- Ensure delivery of environmental and sustainability commitments within CWA scope.
- Oversee risk management, stakeholder consultation, and regulatory compliance.
- Produce E&S reports and use data, audits, and assessments to drive improvements.
- Foster strong relationships with stakeholders and contribute to continuous improvement.
- Promote EDF, SZC, and CWA values and uphold company standards and policies.
- Ensure compliance with regulations, DCO, and business management systems.
- Support teams in meeting contractual and compliance obligations.
- Lead on incident investigations, lessons learned, and knowledge sharing.
- Promote E&S initiatives, conduct site inspections, and support team training and development.
Who we're looking for
Essential
Knowledge, Skills & Qualifications
- Proven experience in the Civils/Utilities industry in an environmental and/or sustainability role
- Proven experience of leading a team
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with ability to operate in a range of environments.
- Able to demonstrate the ability to positively influence environment and sustainability within projects
- Excellent organisational skills
- Experience in implementing an Integrated Management System
Desirable
- Degree in relevant field
- MS Office – Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point to a high standard
- Cost estimation and commercial awareness
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with ability to operate in a range of environments.
- Excellent organisational skills
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. 42 hours per week.
- 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 Major Projects business is delivering some of the UK’s most complex and iconic infrastructure projects including HS2, the new high-speed railway and the first nuclear power station in a generation, Hinkley Point C. Using the latest technology, we’re driving productivity and creating a lasting legacy by delivering sustainable solutions that strengthen communities.
From consultancy and design, to all aspects of construction and maintenance. We have the proven expertise to deliver large-scale projects safely and successfully.
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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