Senior Environmental Advisor

Senior Environmental Advisor
Are you looking to join the business that is building the West Midlands section of the largest infrastructure project in Europe? Do you want to join a company that promoted over 20% of its workforce in the last year?
Balfour Beatty VINCI is proud to be designing and building a 90KM stretch of the West Midlands section of HS2. We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Senior Environmental Advisor within the Environmental Team.
Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role
What you’ll be doing :
• Responsible for managing the flow of all the relevant environmental information within sub-lots
• Management of the sublots environmental deliverables review tracker and assets schedule
• Work closely with the DJV in developing a design that avoids or reduces significant environmental impacts based on Environmental Minimum Requirements (EMR) principles
• Review of relevant incoming documentation and reports, including EMRs to ensure compliance
• Ensuring consistency across environmental deliverables, utilising relevant technical and contract guidance and the support of the discipline leads
• Provide advice and support for the environmental topic leads and engineering team regarding environmental design across the sub-lots (ensuring consistency with Basis of Design, Contract Requirements Technical, TS and CoCP)
• Attend meetings (external and internal) – weekly and monthly on key environmental topics
• Contribution of ideas for continuous improvement (making tasks easier, ensuring consistent approach, identification of environmental constraints/opportunities etc)
Experience Required
• Experience of coordinating information across a range of environmental disciplines and understanding the potential for effects on receptors and stakeholders
• Broad understanding of the planning and implementation of environmental mitigation across disciplines
• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team including environmental and engineering specialists
• Ability and drive to see tasks through to completion
• Confidence and experience to challenge designs prepared by others
Benefits of working with us
•Access to Employee assistance programmes
•Annual flu vaccinations •Health risk assessments
•Healthcare
•Flexible working
•Enhanced maternity and paternity
•Excellent pension contributions
•Travel allowance for eligible candidates
•Car/ car allowance
About Balfour Beatty VINCI
Working together for over 30 years, Balfour Beatty VINCI have been successful in delivering several significant infrastructures; creating unrivalled expertise and capability across rail, highways and aviation sectors in the UK and beyond.
Our work with HS2
Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.
Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:
•42 viaducts totalling over 11km
•66 overbridges
•More than 35 cuttings reaching over 30km
•56 culverts
•66 embankments reaching over 33km
•Building four motorway crossings requiring box structures
•Six interfaces with the existing rail requiring both dive-under and overbridge structures
Diversity and Inclusion:
Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) is delivering equal opportunity for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and supportive of anyone with a physical or neuro-diverse ability. We welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities. We are transforming the image of construction through working on the HS2 project and increasing diverse representation of Balfour Beatty Vinci through representing the communities we are working in. We have embedded ED&I Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively.
Flexible working:
Flexible or agile working is encouraged at BBV and we recognise the value and diversity of candidates which this can bring to our business operations. Not every role can provide a variety of working patterns to suit people's personal needs however we are happy to discuss agile working opportunities at BBV with you.
Disability confident: We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is Disability Confident committed and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.
Senior Environmental Advisor
Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project? Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain’s new high speed railway.
Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we’re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you’d join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.
We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Senior Environmental Advisor within the Environmental Team. 
Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role
What you’ll be doing
• Responsible for managing the flow of all the relevant environmental information within sub-lots
• Management of the sublots environmental deliverables review tracker and assets schedule
• Work closely with the DJV in developing a design that avoids or reduces significant environmental impacts based on Environmental Minimum Requirements (EMR) principles
• Review of relevant incoming documentation and reports, including EMRs to ensure compliance
• Ensuring consistency across environmental deliverables, utilising relevant technical and contract guidance and the support of the discipline leads
• Provide advice and support for the environmental topic leads and engineering team regarding environmental design across the sub-lots (ensuring consistency with Basis of Design, Contract Requirements Technical, TS and CoCP)
• Attend meetings (external and internal) – weekly and monthly on key environmental topics
• Contribution of ideas for continuous improvement (making tasks easier, ensuring consistent approach, identification of environmental constraints/opportunities etc)
Experience Required
Degree in an environmental or scientific discipline or relevant career experience
Experience as an Environmental Advisor working in relation to construction site activities,
Have deputised for when senior members are out of the business 
Thorough understanding of EMS including development of documents, procedures and processes
Trained and experienced internal ISO 14001 auditor (preferred Lead Auditor) Practioner IEMA (or equivalent level of membership with a relevant professional body)
Experience of Stakeholder management (Environment Agency/Local Authority) 
Benefits of working with us
•Health risk assessments
•Healthcare
•Flexible working
•Enhanced maternity and paternity
•Excellent pension contributions
•Travel allowance for eligible candidates
•Car/ car allowance
About Balfour Beatty VINCI Working together for over 30 years, Balfour Beatty VINCI have been successful in delivering several significant infrastructures; creating unrivalled expertise and capability across rail, highways and aviation sectors in the UK and beyond. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and on to Handsacre in Staffordshire. Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites: •42 viaducts totalling over 11km •66 overbridges •More than 35 cuttings reaching over 30km •56 culverts •66 embankments reaching over 33km •Building four motorway crossings requiring box structures •Six interfaces with the existing rail requiring both dive-under and overbridge structures Diversity and Inclusion: Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) is delivering equal opportunity for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and supportive of anyone with a physical or neuro-diverse ability. We welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities. We are transforming the image of construction through working on the HS2 project and increasing diverse representation of Balfour Beatty Vinci through representing the communities we are working in. We have embedded ED&I Champions

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