Senior Environmental Advisor

Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project?
Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West
Midlands stretch of HS2 – Britain’s new high speed railway.

Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as
continue their journey up to Manchester. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us – we’re at
peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges,
tunnels and viaducts. Plus you’d join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this
exciting section of HS2 across the region.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Senior Environmental
Advisor within the Environmental Team. 

Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be
considered for this role

What you’ll be doing

• Responsible for managing the flow of all the relevant environmental information within
  sub-lots
• Management of the sublots environmental deliverables review tracker and assets schedule
• Work closely with the DJV in developing a design that avoids or reduces significant
  environmental impacts based on Environmental Minimum Requirements (EMR) principles
• Review of relevant incoming documentation and reports, including EMRs to ensure compliance
• Ensuring consistency across environmental deliverables, utilising relevant technical and
  contract guidance and the support of the discipline leads
• Provide advice and support for the environmental topic leads and engineering team regarding
  environmental design across the sub-lots (ensuring consistency with Basis of Design, Contract
  Requirements Technical, TS and CoCP)
• Attend meetings (external and internal) – weekly and monthly on key environmental topics

Contribution of ideas for continuous improvement (making tasks easier, ensuring consistent
approach, identification of environmental constraints/opportunities etc)

Experience Required

• Degree in an environmental or scientific discipline or relevant career experience
• Experience as an Environmental Advisor working in relation to construction site activities,
• Have deputised for when senior members are out of the business 
• Thorough understanding of EMS including development of documents, procedures and processes
• Trained and experienced internal ISO 14001 auditor (preferred Lead Auditor) Practioner IEMA
  (or equivalent level of membership with a relevant professional body)
• Experience of Stakeholder management (Environment Agency/Local Authority) 

Benefits of working with us

• Health risk assessments
• Healthcare
• Flexible working
• Enhanced maternity and paternity
• Excellent pension contributions
• Travel allowance for eligible candidates
• Car/ car allowance

About Balfour Beatty VINCI

Working together for over 30 years, Balfour Beatty VINCI have been
successful in delivering several significant infrastructures; creating unrivalled expertise and
capability across rail, highways and aviation sectors in the UK and beyond. Our work with HS2
Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington
in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and on to Handsacre in Staffordshire. Overall, we
will be building the following across all our sites:

• 42 viaducts totalling over 11km
• 66 overbridges
• More than 35 cuttings reaching over 30km
• 56 culverts
• 66 embankments reaching over 33km
• Building four motorway crossings requiring box structures
• Six interfaces with the existing rail requiring both dive-under and overbridge structures 

Diversity and Inclusion: Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) is delivering equal opportunity for
everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive
employer and supportive of anyone with a physical or neuro-diverse ability. We welcome people
from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical
abilities. We are transforming the image of construction through working on the HS2 project and
increasing diverse representation of Balfour Beatty Vinci through representing the communities
we are working in. We have embedded ED&I Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability
to support our people effectively.

Flexible working: Flexible or agile working is encouraged at BBV and we
recognise the value and diversity of candidates which this can bring to our business
operations. Not every role can provide a variety of working patterns to suit people’s personal
needs however we are happy to discuss agile working opportunities at BBV with you. 

Disability confident: We care about being inclusive and that means we
encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is
Disability Confident committed and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.