Senior ES Advisor Work Winning - Derby - Derby

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About the role

This role will see you supporting the Environmental manager within the work winning team, ensuring that Balfour Beatty's building new futures strategy is at the heart of our projects and that our client requirements for environmental sustainability are met.
You will support operational teams, project engineers, and managers on aspects of sustainability and environmental management and best practice, developing environmental documentation and meeting legal and company standards. You will work with the ES Team to help ensure the environmental requirements of Clients and Regulators are complied with, identifying on-site mitigation and consents as required.
The lookahead for projects in the UK is very strong with modernization, refurbishment, and new build projects planned over the coming decades to reinforce and increase capability in supporting renewable generation, transmission, and distribution.

What you'll be doing

• Provide advice, support, and direction to the wider bid team to enable them to deliver environmentally compliant projects and sustainable opportunities in line with environmental legislation, BB procedures, and client requirements and the building new futures strategy.
• Support the team of ES Advisors.
• Compile tender and bid responses to support the work of the wider bid team.
• Draft environmental sustainability documents for our site ES teams to utilize during project delivery.
• Provide high-level review of ES content in construction methodologies, risk registers, price build-ups, programmes, and other project-specific deliverables.
• Report on good practices and investigate and report on environmental incidents to the project teams and the client with the support of your colleagues.
• Take part in lessons learnt exercises and consider areas for improvements.
• Work with the Head of Sustainability to promote Zero Harm objectives and Building New Futures strategies and drive continuous improvement of performance.

Who we're looking for

The following qualities/experience are essential:

• A relevant degree or equivalent in an environmental discipline.
• Thorough working knowledge of current environmental legislation.
• Strong working knowledge of the construction sector, preferably Utilities.
• Experience in deciphering technical documents and translating into operational terms.
• Strong background in assessing environmental hazards and understanding the mechanisms of how to mitigate.
• A wareness or knowledge of Biodiversity Net Gain.
• Previous experience of dealing with regulators.
• Demonstrated successful capability in effective communication skills at all levels, ability to build relationships across all levels of the organisation and competent in producing reports.
• Professional and pragmatic team player who can build and sustain effective working relationships.
• Strong business awareness, employee focus, and attention to detail.
• Programme management experience with a structured approach to organizing and documenting progress.
• Commercial awareness of contracting and experience of managing subcontractors.
• Valid Driving Licence.
• Interest in the utilities/construction/engineering operating environment.
• Proficient in MS Office Word, Excel, Outlook.

The following qualities/experience are desirable:

• Appropriate IEMA level or equivalent professional accreditation.
• Working knowledge of E&S Management systems.
• GIS knowledge and working experience (ArcGIS, QGIS).
• Experience of delivering against CEEQUAL/BREEAM.

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 ongoing 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 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 encourages 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.

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