Environment Manager

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Vacancy: Environment Manager (Regional)

Location: York/ Anywhere within Eastern Region (This role is also being advertised as London)

Salary: 55,596 to 63,797 per annum

Role Type: Permanent, Full time

Are you ready to make a difference in people's lives? At Network Rail, we connect passengers and freight customers, ensuring safe and efficient transportation across the country. We're an organisation where people truly matter, and when you join us, you matter to us and millions of others.

We're dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the passengers we serve. To achieve this, we're committed to becoming an open, diverse, and inclusive workplace, leveraging the skills and expertise of our talented workforce. Together, we strive to create a safe and accessible railway for everyone.

Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you!

Network Rail Benefits

In addition to the above, you can enjoy a fantastic range of employee benefits, such as:

• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays
• 75% discount on rail leisure travel for you and your family
• 75% subsidised Season Ticket for work travel (includes Underground)
• A range of pension options
• Annual Performance Related Pay package
• Flexible and agile working arrangements
• Healthcare package
• Discounts on shopping
• Discounted Gym memberships and much more.

Brief Description

This is an opportunity to shape the future direction of the Region for social value and sustainability governance. We are seeking for two roles looking at specific areas of the business.

Firstly we need to create a social value strategy for the Region and then oversee its implementation in what is a new and exciting area of sustainability for the business. We will build on the excellent work delivered in our Capital programs and roll the social value agenda out across operations, maintenance and our wider procurement activities. Working with a diverse range of stakeholders across the business you will set out our strategy for the next 5 years, identify best practice from across different industries, build the business case for this area and support the Route teams to implement your plans.

The second role is to support our governance and roll out of new initiatives across the Region. Focusing initially on biodiversity and then the full range of sustainability topics, we want someone who can drive change through an organisation. This is about developing the networks and cultivating the relationships required to get things done in a matrix style organisation. We will also need to implement new governance structures and hold ourselves to account against relevant KPI's. You will play a key role in developing those measures and helping to drive the sustainability culture in Eastern.

Key Accountabilities

1. Deliver expert technical advice on environmental management and sustainability requirements to stakeholders across the Routes/Region/Programmes, embedding requirements and performance measures into business wide processes and controls.
2. Implement the environment and sustainability aspects of the Region's sustainability strategy and plans, working with all relevant business areas and the supply chain to enable successful delivery.
3. Work with Route teams to determine practical and deliverable measures to improve the environmental and sustainability performance on projects. Drive the implementation of best practices through the project teams and the supply chain by capturing and sharing lessons learnt to deliver efficiencies.
4. Manage and deliver an appropriate governance framework that delivers risk based Level 2 assurance for the Region/Programme on environmental and sustainability performance and drives continuous improvement.
5. Manage the Environment team within a Region/Programme (where relevant).
6. Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders, liaising with regulatory bodies and other agencies, developing partnerships with NGOs, working collaboratively with contracting organisations, maintaining effective liaison with other IP Regions/Programmes and aligned routes, and contributing to the national strategy.
7. Manage the implementation and continuous improvement of the Environment Management System (EMS) within the Region/Programme through active engagement within the relevant business areas and the supply chain.
8. Manage the delivery and implementation of environment and sustainability competence framework and associated education and training programme for the Routes/Region/ Programme, supporting staff to understand their responsibilities, and improve technical awareness of environmental aspects.
9. Develop internal and external environment and sustainability communications for the Region/Programme such as cascades, briefings, lessons learnt, case studies, newsletters etc.
10. Build the desired environment and sustainability culture throughout the business unit to achieve continuous improvement and adoption of best practice.

Essential Requirements

• Practitioner member of IEMA or equivalent professional institute e.g. CIEEM / CIWEM (or equivalent through experience).
• Degree level qualification (minimum UK level 6) in environment / sustainability or other relevant subject (or equivalent through experience).
• Demonstrable significant experience managing specific topics areas such as biodiversity, social value, governance or permitting or delivering sustainability agenda in wider business units across multidisciplinary areas, with involvement in construction programmes across multi discipline areas.
• In depth understanding of environment / sustainability legislation and/or national policy.
• Experience in implementing successful environmental / sustainability improvements.
• Experience of working with management systems (e.g. ISO or equivalent)
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a specific emphasis on influencing the views of peers, colleagues and stakeholders.

Desirable Requirements

• Masters level qualification in relevant subject
• Full member of IEMA or equivalent professional institute e.g. CIEEM / CIWEM.
• Experience of managing relationships with Regulators.
• Rail industry experience
• Auditing competency

Company

Every day, 4.8 million people use our network. Keeping Britain moving and building a better railway for the future is full of challenges – but also tremendous opportunities.

From our commitments to your development, our range of benefits and our approach to Diversity & Inclusion, we believe there are many reasons to join the team at Network Rail.

Your health, wellbeing and benefits

We believe that safety and performance go hand in hand and this doesn’t just mean safety on the railway! We are committed to the wellbeing of our employees and believe, that should come first.

What Diversity and Inclusion means to us

‘Diversity’ means recognising differences between people while valuing the contribution they make. ‘Inclusion’ means creating safe and welcoming workplaces with fair cultures that encourages innovative and fresh ways of thinking.

Our aspiration is that the behaviours and actions that support diversity and inclusion will come from the conviction of everyone here at Network Rail – making diversity and inclusion a conscious part of how we run our business throughout Britain.

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Network Rail is an accredited Disability Confident Leader. This means, where a disabled applicant meets the essential criteria for any of our vacancies, they will receive an interview.