Environmental Sustainability Advisor (Carbon) - UK Wide (Remote)
Job No. BBUK19821
Enabling Functions
Sustainability
UK Wide (Remote)
Permanent
About the role
This important role supports Balfour Beatty’s Sustainability Strategy and is key to delivering company and client carbon reduction targets. The role is to provide carbon support across all Regional Civils projects in order to meet client requirements and deliver against the Business Unit’s Carbon Budget.
This is a national role with regular travel across the UK to various sites when required. You can be based anywhere in the UK reporting into the.
What you'll be doing
- Undertake whole life carbon base-lining and forecasting process on live projects to ensure carbon estimates are complete, use tailored carbon factors where available, and are auditable for PAS 2080 compliance.
- Provide carbon analysis from client carbon tools and other carbon tools (such as One Click LCA) or support others to do so.
- Provide preconstruction and delivery teams with understanding of hotspots and focus for carbon reductions.
- Support the development of processes as necessary, to collate actual carbon data from in-flight projects.
- Ensure carbon benchmarking data is periodically fed back into benchmarking during preconstruction and delivery stages of the project lifecycle; with checks to ensure consistency and accuracy of data.
- Utilise client carbon tools and/ or other carbon tools (such as One Click LCA), for carbon reporting to the client.
- Work with planning and preconstruction teams to identify options at project level to drive decarbonisation activities in order to drive innovation, meet client expectations and deliver against the business unit’s carbon budget.
Who we're looking for
- Demonstrable industry experience in a technical role (engineering / commercial) on a range of major infrastructure / civil engineering projects with a good understanding of construction methods, processes and temporary works
- Experience of bid, preconstruction or construction delivery phases of projects incorporating major, complex civil engineering.
- The commitment to help drive change and carbon management capability across the business.
- Good interpersonal skills that enable working relationships to be developed at all levels in the business.
- Some experience of engineering or commercial processes, supporting multi-level projects and programmes.
- Strong desire to upskill others to ensure lasting and positive shift in business approach.
- Support as necessary the periodic reporting of carbon benchmarking data during preconstruction and delivery stages of the project lifecycle; with checks to ensure consistency and accuracy of data.
- Support the development of training and guidance documents to ensure consistency of carbon estimating and maintain required standard.
- Support preconstruction and project teams to produce options assessments (currently cost and carbon, but also in future, time) and to upskill the business in this capability.
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
With a strong track record of delivery, our civils teams connect communities through infrastructure projects in the highways, public realm, rail, flood and coastal defence, and industrial sectors across England and Wales.
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 find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
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 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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
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