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Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor - Dundee

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Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor

The role will provide direction, support and guidance to our project teams on all
aspects of hands-on environmental management, meeting legal and company
standards and helping deliver a culture of continual improvement.

It will support site-based project design construction controls and mitigations, sustainability opportunities and deliver against client led contractual requirements and BBPTD tactical aspects to achieve our strategic goals.

A key part of the role will be engagement with clients, stakeholders, subcontractors, and environmental authorities.

What you'll be doing

The role will report directly to the ES Manager ECU and have interfaces
with project directors / Managers / Engineers / Commercial and Procurement from
within the Power Business Unit (BU) along with collaboration with ES roles from
other Strategic BU's.

  • Completion, reviewing, updating of company environmental documentation,
    sustainability delivery and a variety environmental risks and opportunities.
  • Producing/maintaining permitting and licencing requirements for specific
    projects.
  • Fully interpret policy, regulation, and legislation across the portfolio, providing visible ES support across the portfolio.
  • Support one or more high-level/value/complex projects through feasibility
    to post construction with the backing of your E&S Team colleagues.
  • Support one or more standalone projects through feasibility to post
    construction.
  • Regular site inspections, including those with client or regulatory
    representatives.

Who we're looking for

  • Full driving license and flexibility to travel
  • Professional Membership level of a relevant professional body
    (IEMA/CIEEM/CIWEM) or ability to demonstrate equivalent experience and
    competence.
  • Good 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
  • Oversee, develop and direct Graduate ES roles across your portfolio.
  • Understanding of the benefits of working collaboratively to obtain the best
    outcome.
  • Be required to visit worksites and offices across Scotland and attend
    occasional ES meetings across the UK.

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

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: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com

Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor - Dundee

Balfour Beatty
Dundee, UK
Full-Time

Published on 15/11/2025

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