Location: Manchester, GB, M11 3NH Remote, GB, REMOTE
Company: ameygroupi
Your New Role
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Permanent Environmental & Sustainability Manager to join our Transpennine (TRU) account. This is a hybrid working role between Manchester and Leeds.
Transpennine Amey is working in partnership with Network Rail on the Transpennine route upgrade project (TRU), focusing on providing reliable, frequent, faster, and greener railways to the North of England. TRU covers 76 miles of railway between Manchester, Leeds, York, Selby, and Humberside. We lay the foundations, covering upgrades to civils, track, railway systems, and electrification to the west of Leeds. By completing such works, we aim to support Network Rail in cutting carbon emissions and delivering a smoother, more enjoyable journey to their customers.
The Environment and Sustainability (E&S) Manager plays an important role in making our activities future-proof, working to deliver tactical solutions and initiatives to ensure we meet the Group and/or Business Unit (BU) environment and sustainability goals. The post holder will provide ‘value-added’ technical and specialist environment and sustainability support.
The standard hours of work are 37.5 hours per week.
You will be responsible for:
* Supporting Leaders and Operational Teams in reducing the environmental impact of our operations, embodying a collaborative approach, working with environment, carbon, and sustainability professionals across Amey and others (including Clients, our key partners, and Supply Chain members).
* Providing specialist environmental advice, being the ‘go-to’ person for understanding, knowledge, technical compliance, and competence matters, ensuring we meet all external commitments and obligations.
* Supporting and enabling the maintenance of the ISO 14001 certification of our integrated management systems.
* Working with team members to identify environmental risks and opportunities, improving understanding of how our activities interact with the environment and determining effective operational control measures to mitigate significant impacts.
* As required, undertaking environmental applications (authorised waste, consents to discharge/abstract).
* Applying specialist technical knowledge to observe and audit as necessary to identify areas of strength and weakness.
* Developing briefings on Environmental Sustainability topics, changes in law, and standards to enable information to be cascaded via the Operational Teams.
We want to hear from you if you have:
* Experience of working across organisations, providing specialist environmental advice.
* A good understanding of environmental management principles, environmental impact assessment, life cycle assessment, and environmental impact reduction actions.
* Experience of environmental permission application and supervision (Protected Species, authorised waste, water abstraction, and effluent discharge).
* Knowledge, understanding, and experience with ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems and relevant legislation.
* Experience undertaking environmental performance monitoring, analysis, and evaluation and making recommendations to business leaders to drive continual improvement.
* Bachelor’s degree or master’s in a relevant field such as Environment, Sustainability, or Engineering.
What we can offer you:
* Career Development - Exceptional development and progression plan.
* Pension - Generous Pension scheme which we will contribute to.
* Choices - Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving, and gym membership.
* Save with Amey - Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers.
* Social Value - You’ll get 2 Community Involvement Days each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice.
Application Guidance
Amey is committed to Inclusion and Diversity. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.
Please contact our recruitment team at peopleservices@amey.co.uk to discuss any access needs and reasonable adjustments that may be required during the recruitment process.
Apply today – We are excited to hear from you!
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