Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor

About The Role

Provide Environmental and Sustainability leadership and day-to-day coordination for Painter Brothers’ (PB) sustainability reporting, compliance, and improvement activity.

The role will, manage, and continuously improve the systems, reporting processes, supply-chain engagement, and action plans needed to meet Balfour Beatty, client,

and internal ES requirements across PB’s manufacturing and subcontract supply chain.

What you'll be doing

• Lead and coordinate all E&S and sustainability reporting for Balfour Beatty, clients, and internal PB leadership.
• Act as the central point for E&S data collation, validation and submission.
• Ensure reporting is accurate, and delivered to required standards and deadlines.
• Develop PB’s approach to embodied and operational carbon.
• Oversee collection and management of key environmental data across materials, fabrication, processing, logistics, and waste.
• Develop and maintain tools, templates, methodologies, and assumptions for carbon reporting.
• Continuously improve data quality, traceability, and audit readiness.
• Develop E&S reporting requirements across supplier categories (materials, services, logistics, fabrication, coatings).
• Lead supplier engagement on E&S performance and expectations.
• Support supplier onboarding and assessment (e.g. ISO 14001, BES 6001, EPDs, carbon data, modern slavery controls)

Who we're looking for

• UK Driving Licence
• Relevant Degree or Experience in sustainability within manufacturing or construction sectors.
• Experience of Environmental Compliance and Sustainability within the Manufacturing industry preferred but not essential.
• Professional Membership preferred e.g. PISEP
• Working and practical knowledge of ISO 14001

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?

Benefits

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…

Balfour Beatty works at the heart of the UK’s rail networks – designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of the railways that connect communities and underpin growth.

From feasibility studies, planning and design through to implementation and asset management, we provide multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure services across the lifecycle of rail assets. Our expertise covers electrification, track, power, civils, specialist rail plant, railway systems and technologies.

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: ***email_hidden***