Environment & Sustainability Advisor

Job number: BBUK01503
Company/Division: Rail
Career area: Health Safety Environment
Location: UK, North East
Contract type: Permanent

About the role

Here at Balfour Beatty, our work inspires communities and advances society. Our commitment to sustainability looks even further - generations further. Join our Rail team as a Environment and Sustainability Advisor on the Northumberland line project and you will be a part of our legacy.

The Northumberland line reopening project aims to see the return of passenger trains to the line by 2024.

The project has seen Network Rail work in partnership with Northumberland County Council, Northern and the Department for Transport. It is hoped that the transformational project can help stimulate and support local economic growth, regeneration and community development in Northumberland and the surrounding regions.

Across the length of the project, 18 miles of track and signalling will be upgraded, six new stations opened and three new footbridges installed.

The E&S Advisor will provide guidance, support, advice and compliance monitoring on Environment and Sustainability. They will provide on-site engagement, coaching and support on E&S and promote safe behaviours on site.

What you'll be doing

• Contribute to the implementation of the Zero Harm & Sustainability Action Plan
• Provide support to investigate accidents, incidents and near miss events.
• Undertake planned & unplanned inspections, audit and reviews of projects
• Produce formal reports on findings and and communicate these to the project.
• Contribute to local and national E&S projects (e.g. Involved Plans, Social Value,
• Environmental Social Management Plans)
• Be involved at the planning stage to support design teams to identify and control risk.
• Engage with site teams to identify best practice environmental mitgations and
• improved environmental compliance.
• Deliver on-going approved E&S Awareness Training to meet project and business
• needs
• Actively provide support and guidance to the supply chain & subcontractors.
• Assist in the development of E&S case studies and best practice.
• Assist in the compilation of risk assessments and written environmental safe systems of work
• Ensure the project is compliant with all E&S Regulations
• Ensure lessons learned are effectively communicated across the Project /Business
• area.
• Identify and support ecological enhancement activities

Who we're looking for

• Practioner Membership of IEMA
• Educated to Degree level in a relevant field
• Good communicator with influencing and persuasion skills
• Good interpersonal skills and team player
• Incident investigator/fact finder
• Accurate record keeping
• Relevant experience matched with their Project /Business area.

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

Our Rail business has an extensive legacy of rail expertise. Our teams safely deliver complex projects, from consultancy and design to all aspects of construction and maintenance. Using advanced plant and machinery, and unique innovations, we provide end-to-end solutions for our customers.

Our aim is to improve the passengers experience, and our teams create better journeys by increasing network capacity, improving reliability, and making our railways more efficient and sustainable.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. 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.