Brief Description
We're looking to create two new teams to support our Route colleagues in delivering their sustainability and biodiversity obligations. Based in either the north or the south of the Region you will provide sustainability advice through a team of sustainability and ecological professionals that you will help recruit. These newly created roles will work across a wider range of stakeholders and disciplines to ensure sustainability is delivered through our day to day activities from procurement to project management. Key areas of focus will be ensuring whole life carbon is included in early stage of business case development, improving and enhancing biodiversity on our landholdings as well as ensuring legal compliance through a robust audit program. You will need to be a great influencer and skilled at translating complex ideas into simple concepts to ensure our sustainability strategy is embedded in everything we do.
About the role (External)
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
·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
·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