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Vacancy: Principal Sustainability Manager
Location: York (also advertised in London Stratford and Derby)
Salary: Ј71,163 to Ј80,060
Role Type: Permanent
Ј71,163 to Ј80,060
N.B.: The role has also been advertised under IRC2282128 and IRC22822143 to engage with possible candidates in other areas but there is only the one vacancy.
Employees will be entitled to a 75% discount off leisure travel this includes all off peak and super off-peak tickets.
Network Rail Benefits - To find out about what benefits we offer, click here - At Network rail you will have a clear development path with access to training and additional qualifications. You can enjoy a range of employee benefits, such as; up to 28 days annual leave, 75% of Leisure Travel and Season Ticket for travel, a range of pension options, flexible and agile working arrangements, healthcare, discounts on shopping, gym memberships and much more.
CDE operates across the entire Eastern region which stretches from the Scottish borders along the entire east coast of England and on to London, Kings Cross covering 6,042 miles of track which sees over 7,500 passenger journeys every day as well as 1,057,462 tonnes of freight moved each week. This is all made possible by the 9,500 brilliant Network Rail staff and a further 25,000 people in the supply chain who work in the region to provide a safe and reliable railway and strive to put passengers and freight users first.
Every year, during the past five-year Control Period 6, Capital Delivery - Eastern (CDE) were entrusted with delivering over Ј1bn, investing in the region of Ј3,000,000 every day, on renewal and major or minor enhancement projects across the Eastern region. For CP7, the eastern region has secured Ј9bn to continue our works.
As an organisation, we carry the responsibility to continue to build a railway fit for the future through our activities and sustainability work, leaving a positive legacy for future generations. We actively challenge unsafe practices and take ownership for addressing risks, resolving issues and protecting safety and wellbeing.
Brief Description
An exciting opportunity to join the safety and sustainability leadership team in Capital Delivery Eastern. Our vision is to deliver industry leading projects in a safe and sustainable way. This role offers the opportunity to influence the sustainability performance in Network Rail's biggest portfolio of enhancement and renewals projects. The role will work closely with our developments' director, to establish sustainability excellence in the pipeline of enhancement projects coming through from development stage into design and delivery in Capital Delivery Eastern. The role will also work across Capital Delivery, developing our sustainability strategy and providing technical leadership to Sustainability specialists across our renewals and enhancements delivery areas. We have stretching targets in the space of Carbon, biodiversity and social value across Capital Delivery Eastern, and we need someone with passion to engage our teams and our supply chain to achieve them. We are looking for someone with excellent leadership and communication skills, who is able to collaborate well with others and willing to think creatively.
About the role (External)
Key Accountabilities:
Job Skills, Experience and Qualifications
Essential Criteria:
- Chartered member of a relevant professional institution (e.g. IEMA or similar) or working towards Chartership with expectation of achieving this within a time frame agreed on appointment
- Bachelor's Degree with an emphasis on environment and/or sustainability management, or equivalent experience
- Demonstrable in-depth understanding of environmental or social legal requirements and experience in ensuring compliance acquired within a similar role
- Demonstrable experience in embedding a sustainability strategy
- Demonstrable experience of building sustainability into business cases and early project design
- Evincible experience of leading a team and/or function
- Demonstrable understanding of health and safety risks
- Demonstrate experience of actively building internal and external network to support delivery.
- Demonstrable experience of mentoring and addressing team and individual capability requirements.
- Verifiable experience of partnering across functions and boundaries.
- Demonstrable experience of translating business's goals into clear priorities and responsibilities.
- Significant experience of communicating with and supporting others to understand how their function's business goals and activities support the broader business strategy.
Desirable Criteria
- Demonstrable experience of managing an ISO 14001 compliant environmental management system
- Demonstrable experience of handling employment and skills programmes in a construction or engineering environment
- Demonstrable knowledge of project management and/or understanding of the project management lifecycle within the railway industry, or a similar operating environment.
- Demonstrable experience of using RM3 (or similar maturity model)
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