Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor - Ipswich

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About the role

Balfour Beatty is looking for a Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor to join our team supporting the Bramford to Twinstead Network Optimisation Project. This is an exciting opportunity to provide expert environmental guidance, promote sustainability, and influence positive change across multiple projects. You'll play a key role in supporting operational teams, liaising with clients and regulators, and ensuring compliance with environmental standards, all while driving a culture of continuous improvement.

What you'll be doing

• Deliver and support environmental and ecological initiatives, including net gain projects.
• Provide expert advice to operational and design teams on environmental management, mitigation, and compliance.
• Produce, review, and maintain environmental management plans, risk assessments, and sustainability plans.
• Report on environmental and sustainability performance to clients and leadership teams.
• Engage with clients, regulators, subcontractors, and local stakeholders to ensure environmental requirements are met.
• Oversee and support a team of Environmental and Sustainability Advisors/Coordinators across multiple projects.
• Investigate environmental incidents and recommend preventive measures.
• Lead internal training, toolbox talks, and coaching to promote development and awareness.
• Support bid teams by reviewing client tender documents and providing detailed responses on environmental management.
• Contribute to continuous improvement through sharing lessons learned and supporting audit and assurance activities.

Who we're looking for

• Experienced in environmental management and sustainability within construction or infrastructure projects.
• Strong knowledge of environmental legislation, standards, and best practices.
• Excellent communicator with the ability to liaise confidently with clients, regulators, and teams.
• Experienced in supervising teams and prioritising tasks effectively.
• Committed to driving sustainability initiatives and embedding environmental awareness across projects.

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