Carbon Lead

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  • 5 days ago
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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 Carbon Lead (12 Month FTC) within the Environmental Sustainability Function. This role will be based on site in Erdington. Our head office is located within an excellent location easily accessible via the M6 and M42. The office is also accessible via rail, and we offer employees a shuttle bus transfer to our office from Birmingham international.

Role Responsibilities 

  • Co-ordinate with the Design Joint Venture (DJV) carbon leads regarding the development of the lifecycle assessments;
  • Review and assure all deliverables related to carbon, such as LCA reports updated 6-monthly;
  • Provide technical expertise/ support to the Environmental, Delivery and Design teams;
  • Maintain the Project’s Carbon Management Plan;
  • Organise and attend with DJV Carbon leads key-meetings and workshops with HS2 technical leads;
  • Maintain a carbon and resources opportunity register in coordination with the Waste and Resources Lead ;
  • Promote and encourage low carbon solutions to the relevant construction, procurement and design teams;
  • Manage PAS 2080 certification (maintain evidence, attendance in audits, auditor payments, etc.);
  • Provide carbon training and materials to identified teams;

Experienced required

  • A sound understanding of carbon impact/mitigation issues on major infrastructure schemes;
  • Working knowledge of LCA reporting;
  • Understanding of GHG reporting standards, guidance and regulatory regimes for example PAS 2080; ESOS etc.;
  • Experience in integrating low carbon and resilient solutions into infrastructure design or during the construction phase of a scheme;
  • A science-based background i.e. relevant BSc or equivalent qualification in Environmental Science, Sustainability, Carbon, Energy or similar;
  • Sustainability/carbon/energy or similar MSc desirable;
  • Member of an environmental professional body desirable;
  • Proficiency in Office applications and use of analytical tools;
  • Understanding of the benefits of working collaboratively to obtain the best outcome for the project;
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills;
  • Determination to see tasks through to completion, with excellent planning and organisation skills;

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

• 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.