Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor

About The Role

At Balfour Beatty, we are on a journey to lead the way in sustainable infrastructure. We are looking for a Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor to join our Power business unit, supporting major projects across Scotland. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real impact by ensuring our projects meet the highest environmental standards while helping us deliver long-term, positive outcomes for our clients, communities, and the environment.

As a Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor
, you’ll play a key role in providing expert guidance and leadership across multiple projects. You will:

• Support project teams in meeting environmental and sustainability commitments, ensuring compliance with legal, client, and Balfour Beatty standards.
• Lead on ecological considerations, liaising with regulatory bodies including Nature Scot, SEPA, Marine Scotland and Local Authorities.
• Oversee environmental performance reporting, driving continuous improvement in data quality and outcomes.
• Manage permitting and licensing requirements for projects, ensuring compliance at every stage.
• Provide visible site-based support, from feasibility through to post‑construction.
• Line manage and mentor junior Environmental Sustainability Advisors, Coordinators, and graduates.
• Collaborate with clients, stakeholders, subcontractors, consultants, and environmental specialists to deliver innovative, sustainable solutions.
• Support our work‑winning teams by advising on planning, permitting, and environmental requirements.

We’re seeking someone who brings:

• Proven expertise in environmental sustainability, ideally with an ecology background.
• Experience engaging with regulatory authorities and managing environmental compliance on large infrastructure projects.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to manage teams and subcontractors.
• A collaborative approach, with confidence in engaging clients, stakeholders, and partners.
• Excellent knowledge of environmental legislation, permitting, and best practice.

Day in, day out, our teams deliver the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

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 including 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partner leave.
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.

Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and ongoing maintenance, our in‑house experts, flexible resources and industry‑leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

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

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