Responsibilities
As part of your day to day role, you are responsible for the following:
- Providing environmental advice and support to support your dedicated project management team, and where required within the wider business the HSEQ team, project management teams and bids and tender teams.
- Undertake/support investigations for environmental incidents on site.
- Undertake regular site inspections.
- Lead on the arrangement, review and where applicable, undertake, environmental desktop surveys, walk outs and site surveys to support Environmental and Social Appraisal ESA/ESMP development, with support where required.
- Arrange and review Preliminary Environmental Appraisals (PEA)'s to support ESA/ESMP production and further surveys if necessary.
- Lead the production of ESA/ESMP's for projects, and further surveys if identified, with support where required.
- Write reports and mitigation plans based on above surveys undertaken, including creation of risk assessments and mitigation schemes.
- Support Project Management teams with implementation of environmental mitigation schemes.
- Support compliance with ISO14001 by assisting to continuously develop and maintain the integrated management system.
- Undertake high level reporting on environmental, CSR and Sustainability matters on behalf of LSL to UK and European regulatory bodies
- Support monitoring for environmental, CSR & sustainability performance through external / accreditation audit preparation, auditing of suppliers to LSL and undertaking internal audits and site monitoring.
- Review outcome of any external environmental survey and summarise for teams.
- Develop and deliver subject matter briefings on site/virtually and support development of training packages.
- Support Protected species licence applications/projects with activities under an environmental licence, including liaising with Natural England and/or local authorities where appropriate
- Provide support in developing and maintaining aspects and impacts assessments.
- Support compliance/HSEQ team in both internal and external audits
- Review and update Environmental Aspects and Impacts Register annually/when needed
Essential Requirements
- Full UK driving licence
- Full PTS
- Railway sector experience in a similar role
- Be a minimum of a Practitioner member of Institute for Environmental Management and Assessment or working towards;
- Good knowledge of environmental legislation and best practice;
- Be an excellent communicator with the ability to write clear, concise reports;
- Ability to multi-task and work proactively and flexibly in support of changing workloads;
- Strong prioritisation and organisation skills
Desirable
- A relevant undergraduate degree or experience in Environmental management;
- Previous experience in a similar role;
- Awareness and knowledge of the Network Rail standards 015 (Environmental and Social Minimum Requirements Standards) and 122 (Management of Biodiversity);
- Experience of social management or social value data handling;
- Membership of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management