Carbon Coordinator

Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project? Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build the 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain’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’s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we’re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you’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 Carbon Advisor within the Sustainability Function. This role will be based on site in Birmingham.

Role Responsibilities:

• Co-ordinate with the Design Joint Venture (DJV) carbon leads the development of the project carbon lifecycle assessments;
• Attend with DJV Carbon leads key meetings and workshops with HS2 technical leads;
• Participate in maintenance of the Project’s Carbon Management Plan;
• Monitor Carbon KPIs and support coordination of the carbon champion network;
• Ensure carbon reporting (for both BBV and the supply chain) is recorded and communicated during the construction stages;
• Provide technical support to the Environmental, Delivery and Design teams;
• Maintain a carbon and resources opportunity register in coordination with the Sustainable Resources team;
• Work with the supply chain to promote and encourage low carbon and energy efficient solutions to the relevant construction, procurement and design teams;
• Manage PAS 2080 certification (maintain evidence, attendance in audits, auditor payments, etc.);
• Provide carbon training and materials to identified teams;
• Support delivery of ESOS, including co-ordinating audits and identify cost saving opportunities;
• Interface with the DJV BREEAM Assessor and BBV BREEAM Co-ordinator to ensure the project is on track to achieve Excellent certification.

Experience required:

• A sound understanding of carbon impact/mitigation issues on major infrastructure schemes;
• Working knowledge of LCA reporting;
• Understanding of GHG reporting standards, guidance and regulatory regimes for example PAS 2080; ESOS etc.;
• Experience in integrating low carbon and resilient solutions into infrastructure design or during the construction phase of a scheme;
• A science-based background i.e. relevant BSc or equivalent qualification in Environmental Science, Sustainability, Carbon, Energy or similar;
• Sustainability/carbon/energy or similar MSc desirable;
• Member of an environmental professional body desirable;
• Proficiency in Office applications and use of analytical tools;
• Understanding of the benefits of working collaboratively to obtain the best outcome for the project;
• Good interpersonal and communication skills;
• Determination to see tasks through to completion, with excellent planning and organisation skills.

Benefits of working with us:

• Flexible working available for some roles;
• Travel allowance for eligible candidates;
• Family friendly leave policies;
• Health risk assessments;
• Access to employee assistance programmes;
• Access to annual flu vaccinations.

About Balfour Beatty VINCI:

Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI’s role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. 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 then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.

Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:

• 9.3km of viaducts;
• 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels;
• 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses.

Diversity and Inclusion:

Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.

We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.