Head of Environment & Sustainable Development

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Head of Environment & Sustainable Development

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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!

About our people and the recruitment process - We're an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone! We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don't always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we'll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work life balance.

We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we'll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles.

Brief Description

Role: Head of Environment & Sustainable Development

Vacancy Type: Full-time but flexible working patterns will be considered

Duration: Permanent

Salary: Band 2B (71,163 - 80,060)

Locations: Nationwide & can based at any of our main Network Rail offices, including London, Milton Keynes, Birmingham, and York.

Network Rail Benefits

We have lots of employee benefits, including a range of pension schemes and discounted offers.

28 days annual leave + bank holidays

Employees will be entitled to a 75% discount off leisure travel this includes off peak and super off-peak tickets. Employees will also be entitled to 75% discount on season tickets.

To find out about what benefits we offer, click here

This role sits in Route Services, a business area that has been created to supply services to the routes in the safest, most cost-efficient and effective way, enabling them to benefit from economies of scale and optimised national resources.

We work with our regional customers to provide them with the safest, most cost-efficient and effective services enabling them to benefit from economies of scale and optimised national resources.

The Route Services Environment &Sustainable Development (E&SD) team is responsible for providing strategic steer and expert technical input on all aspects of Environment & Sustainable Development across Route Services, supporting and enabling the organisation to meet its compliance obligations, manage risks, maximise opportunities and build capability to deliver sustainable outcomes.

As a team that sits within The Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) team, the E&SD team works closely with its SHEQ colleagues to empower others to identify, drive and deliver sustainable outcomes to support the business with a Railway Fit for the Future, Everyone Home Safe Everyday and Everyone Fit for the Future.

This role offers flexibility, with the option to be based at any of our main Network Rail offices, including London, Milton Keynes, Birmingham, and York. Please note that regular travel to our main offices and various site locations is expected. The Environment and Sustainable Development team holds routine meetings in London and Milton Keynes a few times a month, with occasional attendance required in Birmingham and Manchester. Additionally, the job's nationwide element will take you to various locations across the country.

We have adopted a hybrid working model, where attendance at a Network Rail location is expected 40-60% of the time on average.

Click apply for this job to apply. If you would like to speak the Resourcing Team, please contact Emily.Smith3@networkrail.co.uk
About the role (External)

To provide leadership and direction for the Directorate on all aspects of environmental and sustainable development risk and opportunity management by setting the vision and strategy aligned with Route Services and wider Network Rail strategies and ways of working.

• Provide leadership and direction for the overall Environmental & Sustainable Development framework, risk and assurance strategy, objectives, targets and planning to deliver effective environment and sustainable development risk and opportunity management.
• Provide direction on the culture maturity and change required to create a culture that supports the proactive management of environmental and sustainable risks and opportunity.
• Provide direction on the overall status of the Route Services management system framework and what is required to establish a consistent approach to environment and sustainable development management across the function that can progressively mature and be integrated into processes and activities.
• Control the availability of appropriate technical specialist support across Route Services, on a risk basis, to improve risk management, assurance and organisational learning and manage functional capacity.
• Provide direction on programmes of improvement using Programme, Project and Communications support to deliver efficiencies and effectiveness in the management of environmental and sustainable development risks and opportunities.
• Provide organisational learning through insights from risk management, assurance and other learning from environmental incidents to reduce repeat events, their severity and to increase resilience for the future.
• Prepare insights through defining appropriate measures, using reporting processes and management information systems for leadership and line management decisions to deliver environment and sustainable development performance improvement.
• Provide input on the development of Network Rail standards and advise on industry and regulatory requirements and liaison as required to deliver consistent and high standards of risk management.

• Membership of a relevant professional body e.g. IEMA with chartered status
• Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline e.g. environmental management or environmental science or demonstrable experience working in environment / sustainable development fields of work
• Successful experience in leading the development of environmental or sustainable development strategies
• Successful Experience of delivering environmental and sustainability improvement programmes in an infrastructure business
• Proven leadership skills
• Demonstrable ability to present management information to enable decision making at a senior level
• Good interpersonal, influencing, communication and organisational skills.
• Good understanding of the UK and European legislative framework and requirements.

• Knowledge of Network Rails systems and processes.
• Understanding of the role of certified management systems in delivering sustained change
• Knowledge of delivery of work via a supply chain

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.

We’re proactive in empowering employees with the knowledge to help them progress. We encourage all our employees to be ambitious, and offer great training and career development opportunities. As the railway becomes bigger and more technologically advanced, it’s crucial that our employees have the right skills to develop their careers and meet the challenges ahead.

We believe that investing in our people is one of the most effective ways of improving the safety, reliability and efficiency of the railway.

We also know that it’s vital to get each individual’s training programme just right. As well as helping us to meet our immediate needs, we believe this is an approach that encourages people to stay with us and develop their careers.

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.

We provide access to support services such as our employee assistance program to help you with finances, family, health and wellbeing. In addition to this, we offer excellent benefits, are sensitive to work-life balance and encourage our employees to use their 5 volunteer days for their favourite causes.

We have a range of benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave entitlement.
• My benefits – Our discounted online shopping site.
• A range of discounted offers including, childcare vouchers, Healthcare offers – cycle to work, healthcare club discounted membership and other benefits.
• Subsidies of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets.
• A range of pension schemes.
• 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community.

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.

Disability Confident Leader

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

Find out more about our recruitment processhere

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