Senior Environmental Advisor

Are you looking to join the business that is building the West Midlands section of the largest infrastructure project in Europe? Do you want to join a company that promoted over 20% of its workforce in the last year?

Balfour Beatty VINCI is proud to be designing and building a 90KM stretch of the West Midlands section of HS2. 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

• Experience of coordinating information across a range of environmental disciplines and understanding the potential for effects on receptors and stakeholders

• Broad understanding of the planning and implementation of environmental mitigation across disciplines

• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team including environmental and engineering specialists

• Ability and drive to see tasks through to completion

• Confidence and experience to challenge designs prepared by others

Benefits of working with us

•Access to Employee assistance programmes

•Annual flu vaccinations •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.

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. 

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) 

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

Benefits of working with us

• Car/ car allowance [add/remove if required]

• Flexible working available for some roles

• Free parking

• Travel allowance for eligible candidates

• Family friendly leave policies

• Excellent pension contributions

• Healthcare

• Health risk assessments

• Access to employee assistance programmes

• Access to annual flu vaccinations

About Balfour Beatty VINCI

Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI’s role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. 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 then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.

Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:

• 9.3km of viaducts

• 62 overbridges

• 35 cuttings

• 56 culverts

• 62 embankments

• 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels

• 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses

Diversity and Inclusion

Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.

Flexible working

We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.