Sustainability Advisor

**About the role**
By joining our **Power Transmission and Distribution** team as a **Sustainability Advisor** within our Environmental Sustainability team you will be supporting the government's ambitions to deliver low-carbon energy across the UK and beyond, and working on an essential **Over Head Line and cabling **project **in the beautiful location of the Isle of Skye**

The Environmental Sustainability Team in Scotland has a wide background of team players who support each other, and their site teams, on environment and sustainability matters to aid project delivery inline with Sustainable Development Goals.

Using a hands-on approach, you will be advising operational teams, project engineers and managers on aspects of environmental sustainability, sustainability management and best-practice, developing sustainability documentation, meeting legal and company standards. You will work with the Environmental Sustainability Team to help ensure the environmental requirements of Clients and Regulators are complied with, provide support on site mitigation, and engage with local stakeholders and members of the public.

If you are looking for a career in Sustainability, working within BBPTD on our projects will give you experience and exciting challenges that no other industry can offer. Not to mention a variety of spectacular office views across Scotland.

**What you'll be doing**
- Help deliver a culture of continual improvement by advising our operational teams on sustainability delivery, as a key member of a wider network of Environmental Sustainability and Social Sustainability Team colleagues.
- Help develop and maintain project sustainability management documentation, including carbon tracking and PAS2080 alignment
- Record Case Studies describing good practices and innovations, assess data to identify gaps in performance, and suggest process improvements.
- Ensure the Project Sustainability Plan is maintained in line with company strategy, standards, legislation, and Client requirements.
- Ensure site compliance with the latest Net Zero legislation and guidance, and support operational teams, project engineers and managers to champion best-practice
- Support Stakeholder engagement activites and maintain strong relationships with regulators, clients and subcontractors.

**Who we're looking for**
- Strong knowledge of environmental management and sustainability issues including Circular Economy principles, UNSDGs, decarbonisation methodologies, Social Impact, and Nature Positive Places (NPF4)
- Regulator consultation experience - Desirable
- Understanding of the Construction operating environment - Desirable
- Membership of Relevant Professional Body i.e. CIWM, IEMA -Desirable
- **Full UK driver’s licence and flexibility to travel - Essential**:

- **Ability and willingness to be flexible with a workplace rotation involving working from home, working from office, and being site based local to the Isle of Skye - Essential**

**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**
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**

Job Reference: BBUK07654