Environmental Sustainability Advisor- Carbon

Balfour Beatty Plc

The Role

Overview

Implement carbon baselining, forecasting, and analysis for infrastructure projects.

Key Responsibilities

  • carbon analysis
  • data benchmarking
  • process improvement
  • template standardisation
  • carbon reporting
  • training development

Tasks

-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 -Undertake carbon baselining 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 -Continual improvement of carbon processes and systems through learning and experience; providing recommendations for improvements -Promote the use of common coding and standardised templates and processes to facilitate data collection for benchmarking -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 -Provide carbon analysis from Candy or support others to do so, to provide preconstruction and delivery teams with understanding of hotspots and focus for carbon reductions -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 the development of processes as necessary, to collate actual carbon data from in-flight projects

Requirements

  • bid management
  • construction delivery
  • carbon estimating
  • analytical
  • problem solving
  • interpersonal

What You Bring

-Experience of bid, preconstruction or construction delivery phases of projects incorporating major, complex civil engineering -Some experience of engineering or commercial processes, supporting multi-level projects and programmes -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 -Timely, accurate and useful input to carbon estimating and optioneering support -Good interpersonal skills that enable working relationships to be developed at all levels in the business -Demonstrable verbal and written communication skills -Good planning, management and organisation skills -Consistency and compliance is achieved across all bids and projects -Demonstrable analytical and problem solving skills

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) -Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more… -Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave

The Company

About Balfour Beatty Plc

-It finances, designs, constructs and maintains roads, rail, energy plants, water systems, buildings and communities. -Active across the UK, US, Hong Kong and Canada, it's known for ventures like HS2, Crossrail and major highway upgrades. -Known for innovation, it uses digital tools, off-site manufacturing and automated plant to enhance safety and efficiency. -An unusual highlight: it pioneered the Automated Cone Laying Machine, boosting roadworker safety on live highways.

Sector Specialisms

Residential

Off-site solutions

Pipe fabrication and installation

Infrastructure Investments

Construction Services

Support Services

Civil engineering

Building

Ground engineering

Mechanical & Electrical engineering

Refurbishment

Fit-out

Rail engineering

Electricity networks

Rail

Highways

Structural concrete repair

Corrosion protection

Bridge strengthening

Bearing replacement

Concrete carriageway rehabilitation

Transportation (roads, rail and aviation)

Power and Energy

Mining

Water

Social infrastructure (hospitals and schools)