1 Environmental Sustainability Manager roles in Sheffield

What you'll be doing

• Provide environmental sustainability leadership across projects and programmes.


• Work collaboratively with work-winning, estimating, planning, design and project
  teams to influence project outcomes and embed environmental sustainability
  considerations from the earliest stages of project development.


• Lead or support environmental input into bids, tenders and pre-construction
  activities, ensuring environmental risks, constraints, opportunities and client
  requirements are identified and integrated into project strategies.


• Ensure environmental commitments, assumptions and obligations established
  during bid and pre-construction are effectively transferred into project
  mobilisation and delivery.


• Ensure compliance with environmental legislation, permits, licences, planning
  conditions, client requirements and company standards.


• Identify, manage and mitigate environmental risks, constraints and opportunities
  throughout the project lifecycle.


• Develop and implement environmental management plans, sustainability plans
  and associated project documentation.


• Advise project teams, designers and senior leaders on environmental and
  sustainability matters.


• Build and maintain effective relationships with clients, regulators, supply chain
  partners and other stakeholders.


• Lead or support environmental input into bids, tenders and pre-construction
  activities.

Who we're looking for

Essential:

• Proven ability to lead environmental sustainability activity on complex
  infrastructure, engineering or construction projects.


• Ability to influence design, programme, commercial and operational decisions at
  bid, pre-construction or delivery stage.


• Strong working knowledge of UK environmental legislation, environmental
  management and regulatory requirements.


• Experience identifying and managing environmental risks, opportunities,
  commitments and programme dependencies.


• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary specialists and environmental supply-
  chain support.


• Ability to work confidently with clients, regulators, senior leaders, designers,
  planners, estimators, commercial teams and construction colleagues.


• Strong written communication, including the ability to develop and review tender
  responses, environmental plans, governance papers and management reports.


• Ability to lead through influence in a complex programme or matrix environment.


• Practitioner membership of IEMA/ISEP, or an equivalent professional body, or
  evidence of working towards an appropriate professional level.


• Ability to travel regularly between offices and project locations and to transition
  into a site-based role as the programme moves into delivery.

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 want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We’re making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we’ve got more to do.  Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives. 

As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview. 

We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments. 

We’re looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via candidaterecruitmentenquiries@balfourbeatty.com