We are currently looking for an IEMA Charted Environmental Manager with 5+ years rail experience or an experienced rail environmental advisor working towards IEMA. This opportunity is an outside of IR35 role, working on the major rail schemes in the UK. Office visits are required, so it is desirable that the candidate is within travelable distance to Crewe. The role is hybrid working.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver expert technical advice on environmental management and sustainability requirements to stakeholders across the Region/Programmes, embedding requirements and performance measures into business wide processes and controls.
• Implement the environment and sustainability aspects of the Region/Programme Environment & Sustainable Development (E&SD) strategy and/or plans, working with all relevant business areas and the supply chain to enable successful delivery.
• Work with project 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.
• 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.
• Manage the Environment team within a Region/Programme (where relevant).
• 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.
• 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.
• Manage the delivery and implementation of environment and sustainability competence framework and associated education and training programme for the Region/ Programme, supporting staff to understand their responsibilities, and improve technical awareness of environmental aspects.
• Develop internal and external environment and sustainability communications for the Region/Programme such as cascades, briefings, lessons learnt, case studies, newsletters etc.
• Build the desired environment and sustainability culture throughout the business unit to achieve continuous improvement and adoption of best practice.

In order to be successful in this role, we would like you to be/ to have

• Practitioner member of IEMA or equivalent professional institute e.g. CIEEM (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 in managing environment / sustainability matters, with involvement in construction programmes across multi discipline areas.
• In depth understanding of environment / sustainability legislation
• Experience in implementing successful environmental / sustainability improvements.
• Experience of working with management systems (e.g. ISO or equivalent)

If you'd like more information, please get in touch with Kai at <phone number removed> or email <email address removed>