Environment Manager
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Brief Description
We are recruiting for an Environment Manager.
Based at London Blackfriars, as the Environment Manager, you'll provide professional environment and sustainability advice and support to the Southern Renewals Enterprise, to manage environment and sustainability risks and opportunities in order to improve performance across design and construction work. This includes managing the relevant assurance and governance processes and providing technical advice to the delivery teams.
About the role (External)
Key Accountabilities
• 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.
Job Skills, Experience and Qualifications
Essential
• 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)
• 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.
• Rail industry experience
• Auditing competency]]>