Social Sustainability Specialist

Salary: £48,000 – £56,400 per year

About the role

Balfour Beatty are currently looking for a Social Sustainability Specialist to join our Regional England & Wales team based across a variety of projects. Typical project locations could be within West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, East Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire.

Within this role you’ll Ensure the project is compliant with the related sustainability requirements of the UK Business Management System (BMS), Support projects in meeting their social sustainability targets including those relating to social

value and managing the associated reporting through both the internal/external systems. You’ll also provide the project with technical advice, guidance and support on social sustainability

What you’ll be doing

As a Social Sustainability Specialist , you will have the following accountabilities:

• Lead on the delivery of the project community investment and social sustainability objectives, in line with the project specific social value action plan (SVAP) or Balfour Beatty Involved programme.
• Develop and manage project sustainability management plans inclusive of the Balfour Beatty group strategy, customer standards and other project requirements. This is to include, where required:
  
  • Creating and delivering training and employment opportunity plans
  • Working with the supply chain and external providers to secure apprenticeships
  • Engaging in educational activities to deliver social value
  • Engaging in community activities to deliver social value

• Manage associated data capture and reporting including the internal sustainability portal and external platforms where required e.g. social value portal
• Support the project teams to ensure they are compliant with the BMS requirements
• Develop the project teams knowledge and skills to understand the sustainability related project requirements including understanding how their roles impact the overall ambitions
• Provide on-going expertise, support and coaching to the project team and supply chain, to enable them to recognise risks and opportunities, to deliver, and where possible exceed targets
• Identify suitable awards and opportunities to promote project activities, including the production of case studies and relevant communications

Who we’re looking for

The following qualities/experience are essential:

• Ability to influence and promote a positive culture
• Understanding of UK policy, regulatory frameworks
• Ability to undertake project planning, project management and work to budgets
• Understanding and practical experience of project Sustainability and Social Value risks and opportunities and how they practically impact on the built environment
• Programme management experience with a structured approach to organising and documenting progress through KPI monitoring and performance reporting
• Practical experience of Sustainability in a construction environment
• Experience in identifying innovation and developing case studies to promote project successes
• Ability to articulate to and influence key stakeholders on how sustainability practically impacts on clients, suppliers, communities and stakeholders
• Communication and relationship management skills are required
• Experience in construction environment
• Demonstrates commitment to continual learning to refine, further develop and apply expertise to add distinctive value to customers and Balfour Beatty
• Experience of managing and analysing sustainability data

The following qualities/experience are desirable:

• Additional relevant skills and qualifications in any technical area
• Experience of working on multiple projects
• Stakeholder management experience

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

About us

In UK Construction Services England & Wales business, our aim is to be the partner of choice; the go-to in our sector, trusted to deliver for our customers. We work across a huge and exciting range of sectors, including aviation, building, civils, defence and energy.

From ground investigations and flood defence to complex roads and bridges; primary schools to world class universities; ground-breaking hospitals to city centre living; the depth of our experience and quality of our projects is something we are proud of.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full online

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. 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.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found online