Environmental and Sustainability Advisor
7 months ago
**About the role**
Balfour Beatty is looking for an **Environment, Sustainability & Social Value Advisor** **. The role is predominately site
- based in Brighton but may be required to support other regional projects, from time to time and be happy to travel to a variety of locations.
**What you'll be doing**
- Providing advice to construction teams regarding pollution prevention and environmental best practice - this may be in the form of developing management plans, toolbox talks or taking part in meetings.
- Ensuring compliance with environmental legislation during all construction activities.
- Maintaining and collating waste and carbon records, recognition, and capture of Co2e scopes 1, 2 and 3 and driving down on key emissions, in conjunction with project administration.
- Undertaking noise and vibration monitoring.
- Regular liaison with key environmental stakeholders including the Client, Local Authorities, charities, schools, universities, local communities, and Regulators.
- Tracking and improving environmental performance onsite.
- Ensuring compliance with environmental commitments within the contract and/or planning documents.
- Identifying more sustainable solutions for the construction industry, including working on new sustainability initiatives.
- Working collaboratively with experts such as ecologists, archaeologists, and designers to determine key control measures/targets/processes for the project.
- Supporting the project in achieving their social value targets set by the Client and Balfour Beatty.
- Working within our Sustainability Portal and other associated systems to ensure full capture of data and on-time reporting.
**Who we're looking for**
You will have the following:
- Understanding of current environmental legislation and best practice relating to construction projects - including waste management, pollution prevention and material sourcing.
- Familiarity with routine environmental inspections for construction projects.
- Familiarity social value requirements of the project and body corporate.
- Experience with Waste Duty of Care requirements and documents.
- Good communication skills
- Previous experience in in similar industries at project level.
- Ability to assist in problem solving for environmental, sustainability and social value challenges and providing opportunities for environmental innovation
- Desire to drive continual improvement in the environment, sustainability, and social value fields.
- Understanding of UK Climate change legislation.
**Experience required**:
- Relevant Degree / eg. Environment & Sustainability
- Experience in similar industry, i.e., construction, civils, groundworks, demolition etc.
- Comfortable and professional in client / outward faced activities.
- Comfortable and professional in development of social value activities.
- A positive team player who is career minded.
Role will be full-time, but the hours can be adapted to allow for a shorter working week, work from home days.
**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?**
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**
Operating across England and Wales, our buildings teams create places where people live, are cared for, work, learn, meet and have fun, with a focus on the aviation, health, defence, education and development sectors.
**Diversity and inclusion**
Job Reference: BBUK07401
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