Environment and Sustainability Manager

Here at Balfour Beatty, our work inspires communities and advances society. Our commitment to sustainability looks even further: generations further. Join our Living Places team as an Environment and Sustainability Manager on the Lincolnshire Highways project and you’ll be part of our legacy.

This role will be based from our Lincoln office and will involve travel to sites across Lincolnshire. There is some opportunity for home working in line with Balfour Beatty’s smart working policy.

Role Purpose:

To coordinate and implement the contractual environment and sustainability requirements, continual improvement and best practice for the Lincolnshire BBLP Contract.

Role outcomes:

• Build strong working relationship with Customers
• Support compliance with related requirements
• Implement and share best practice and innovation
• Waste and carbon reductions
• Capture social value benefits
• Implementation of sustainability solutions
• Delivery of employment, diversity and apprenticeship targets
• Support compliance with environmental legislation
• Sustainability data management and analysis.

What you’ll be doing:

As an Environment & Sustainability Manager, you will have the following accountabilities:

• Driving sustainability requirements and compliance
• Progressing performance assurance
• Providing on-going expertise, support and coaching
• Updating stakeholders on progress
• Running supply chain events and best practice workshops
• Cascading information to internal stakeholders
• Ensuring the sustainability implementation plan remains up to date
• Updating customer on our sustainability commitments
• Driving continual improvements such as through supply chain engagement, energy audits, sustainability trials
• Leading on sustainability initiatives and presenting these
• Inducting staff on sustainability requirements
• Attending regular sustainability meetings
• Carrying out investigations on environmental incidents and feedback any lessons learned
• Utilising the findings from reporting data, assessments, external and internal audits to drive sustainability action plans and inform key business decisions
• Developing communication materials on progress
• Identifying risks and opportunities for the business
• Support winning business teams with environment and sustainability, including social value, responses for bids and PQQs

You will have the following qualities and experience:

• A degree (or equivalent) in Civil Engineering or an Environmental topic
• Full UK Driving Licence and willingness to travel
• Ability to influence and promote a positive culture
• Strong communication and relationship management skills
• Competence in environmental incident investigation
• Understanding of UK policy, environmental legislation, regulatory frameworks
• Understanding and practical experience of project Environmental, Sustainability and Social Value risks and opportunities and how they practically impact on the built environment
• Practical experience of Environmental Management and/or Sustainability in construction
• Experience in identifying innovation and developing case studies to promote project successes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• KPI’s and reporting experience
• Waste management experience
• Energy management experience

Why work for us:

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

About us:

The way we live our lives is changing fast: where and how we live, work, travel, shop, relax and socialise. The evolving nature of our society means we all need to shape our environment to meet a complex array of individual and collective needs.

Wherever investment in these environments is needed, Living Places works in partnership with Local Authorities to consult, finance, design, build and manage the essential place infrastructure that local communities and national economies need to prosper and grow.

We are right at the heart of a dynamic place shaping agenda that brings Local Authorities, local communities, Central Government, and the Private Sector together to create safe, sustainable, flexible and dynamic public spaces geared to community social need, economic growth and personal well-being as well as being environmentally sustainable.

The provision of maintenance services for highways is only a small part of what is really needed. Our focus has moved beyond the road to deliver the potential of the street: a dynamic public place that connects and combines local community and business needs, encourages social interaction and helps pedestrians, motorists, bus riders, and cyclists to coexist safely. Building great public spaces with resource efficient assets enables functional, flexible and inspirational places to be at the heart of the community.

We value diversity and celebrate individual differences, believing that our inclusive culture helps the business continue to grow as a strong, dynamic and innovative organisation.

Balfour Beatty is a corporate signatory to WISE (Women in Science & Engineering).

Our aim is to attract more people from diverse backgrounds to help us build on our inclusive culture. We are a member of the workingmums.co.uk Top Employers’ Charter through which we demonstrate our commitment to enabling parents to progress and enhance their careers whilst managing the challenges of family life.

Balfour Beatty is also Gold Award holders in the Ministry of Defence ‘Employer Recognition Scheme’ and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

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