Environment & Sustainability Advisor

Environmental & Sustainability Advisor – Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)

Location: Peterborough or Norwich, with hybrid working available

Balfour Beatty play a key role as part of the {(6) Anglian Water's @one Alliance: Overview | LinkedIn} @Anglian Water’s one Alliance. The Alliance is a ground-breaking collaboration between Anglian Water and eight industry-leading partners: Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. And together, we deliver around 40% of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.

As we progress through AMP8 – our most ambitious asset management period to date – we’re delivering nature-based and sustainable infrastructure, from wetlands to urban drainage schemes, setting new benchmarks for environmental performance.

To ensure we can outperform against the Anglian Water business plan, we have a fantastic opportunity for an Environmental & Sustainability Advisor to join us and lead on our Water Recycling projects across the region, supporting the delivery of a major capital investment programme.

• Providing environmental and sustainability advice and support to construction projects.
• Producing site-specific environmental documentation and communicating requirements to relevant project personnel.
• Supporting teams to comply with environmental legislation and @one Alliance standards.
• Promoting environmental best practice across project sites.
• Identifying opportunities to reduce energy and water use, minimise waste and improve sustainability performance.
• Working collaboratively across the @one Alliance to ensure the requirements of the Alliance Management System are delivered at the appropriate Delivery Milestone stages.
• Supporting environmental incident investigations and ensuring lessons learned are shared.
• Promoting sustainable behaviours and commercially practical environmental solutions.

As the Environmental & Sustainability Advisor you will help ensure that construction activities comply with current environmental legislation and @one Alliance standards. Working closely with construction teams, you will prepare and review environmental documentation, provide practical onsite support and help drive environmental performance across our projects.

You will also identify and promote sustainability initiatives while supporting the Environment and Sustainability Managers in delivering the Alliance’s strategic priorities.

We’re looking for someone with experience or knowledge in a range of environmental areas, including:

• Contaminated land
• Statutory nuisance
• Waste management
• Soil testing
• Ecology
• Archaeology
• Environmental incident investigation
• Environmental legislation and construction compliance

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Effective problem-solving skills.
• Excellent organisational and prioritisation abilities.
• The ability to produce clear environmental documentation and reports.
• Experience of using Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Experience of GIS software or mapping tools.
• The confidence to work collaboratively with construction and project teams.
• The ability to communicate environmental requirements clearly to different audiences.

• Provide practical environmental and sustainability support to construction projects.
• Produce clear, site-specific environmental documentation that can be effectively applied by project teams.
• Demonstrate a good understanding of current environmental legislation and promote best practice across the @one Alliance.
• Apply commercial awareness when promoting sustainable behaviours, balancing environmental improvements with programme, cost and operational requirements.
• Build strong, collaborative working relationships across project and construction teams.
• Take a proactive approach to embedding environmental and sustainability considerations into everyday project delivery.

Apply today and help us deliver a more sustainable future for the Anglian Water region.

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.

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…