Senior environmental advisor

Senior Environmental Advisor Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain rsquo;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 rsquo;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 rsquo;s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we rsquo;re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you rsquo;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. This role will be based on site in Water Orton, The project rsquo;s most complex network of structures in the West Midlands, this sublot includes the Delta Junction ndash; a triangular section of the high-speed railway made up of nine precast segmental viaducts, embankments, and other bridging structures, with around 10km of track crossing a network of motorways, roads and rivers. Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role What you rsquo;ll be doing bull; Responsible for managing the flow of all the relevant environmental information within sub-lots bull; Management of the sublots environmental deliverables review tracker and assets schedule bull; Work closely with the DJV in developing a design that avoids or reduces significant environmental impacts based on Environmental Minimum Requirements (EMR) principles bull; Review of relevant incoming documentation and reports, including EMRs to ensure compliance bull; Ensuring consistency across environmental deliverables, utilising relevant technical and contract guidance and the support of the discipline leads bull; 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) bull; Attend meetings (external and internal) ndash; weekly and monthly on key environmental topics bull; Contribution of ideas for continuous improvement (making tasks easier, ensuring consistent approach, identification of environmental constraints/opportunities etc) Experience Required bull; Experience of coordinating information across a range of environmental disciplines and understanding the potential for effects on receptors and stakeholders bull; Broad understanding of the planning and implementation of environmental mitigation across disciplines bull; Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team including environmental and engineering specialists bull; Ability and drive to see tasks through to completion bull; Confidence and experience to challenge designs prepared by others Benefits of working with us bull;Access to Employee assistance programmes bull;Annual flu vaccinations bull;Health risk assessments bull;Healthcare bull;Flexible working bull;Enhanced maternity and paternity bull;Excellent pension contributions bull;Travel allowance for eligible candidates bull;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: bull;42 viaducts totalling over 11km bull;66 overbridges bull;More than 35 cuttings reaching over 30km bull;56 culverts bull;66 embankments reaching over 33km bull;Building four motorway crossings requiring box structures bull;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