Senior Environmental and Sustainability Manager

Join our Power T&D team as a Senior Environmental Sustainability Manager on the Beauly Blackhillock Peterhead project in Elgin and you’ll be a big part of fascinating, complex, varied and meaningful work.
Reporting to the Regional Head of Environmental Sustainability and working closely
with Project Directors, this role provides both strategic input at the project level and
operational leadership to ensure the successful delivery of environmental
ES Managers and driving performance, compliance, and innovation across their
projects.
The Senior Environmental Sustainability Manager plays a key role in shaping
project-specific sustainability strategies, advising senior project stakeholders, and
mitigating environmental risks. They are responsible for building a high-performing
team and fostering a culture of environmental leadership and continuous
Lead the implementation of the environmental sustainability strategy across a defined portfolio of projects, ensuring alignment with the regional ES agenda and business priorities.
Provide strategic input at the project level, shaping sustainability approaches that support long-term outcomes and mitigate environmental risk.
Oversee the delivery of environmental performance, compliance, and innovation across multiple complex or high-value projects.
Line manage and develop ES Managers and Advisors, ensuring capability, performance, and succession planning within the team.
Act as a key advisor to Project Directors and senior stakeholders, influencing decision-making and promoting a culture of environmental leadership.
Ensure environmental compliance across the portfolio, including regular site inspections, audits, and engagement with clients and regulators.
Support the development and review of environmental documentation, including project-specific plans, permits, and risk assessments.
Contribute to the development of regional ES strategy and documentation, providing feedback from project-level delivery.
Represent the ES function in project-level work winning activities, including planning and permitting requirements.
Deliver and support environmental and sustainability training and awareness activities within the project teams.
Ensure timely and accurate reporting of environmental performance, incidents, and KPIs, both internally and to clients.
Demonstrate visible sustainability leadership through regular engagement with project teams, promoting accountability and collaboration
Full driving license and flexibility to travel
Registered Environmental Professional
Strong knowledge of environment management with the relevant experience working in a construction environment.
Practical experience and sound knowledge of environmental statutory requirements, including environmental legislation, ecology mitigation, environmental licencing and consent applications and regulation.
Balances short-term functional objectives with longer- term strategic goals
Determination to see tasks through to completion, with excellent planning and organisation skills.
Interpreting and managing data via databases, consistent record keeping and writing detailed reports.
Literate in MS Office - Word, Excel, Outlook
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…
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 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.