Environmental Management Systems Lead in England

This is a 12-15-month fixed-term/secondment opportunity. We are looking for an Environmental Management System (EMS) Lead to join our Integrated Management System (IMS) team on a maternity cover basis. As a member of the IMS team, you will play a key role in integrating our EMS with our asset management system, ensuring consistency and compliance across the business. With a clear focus on environmental management, you will lead the development, maintenance and continual improvement of the EMS, while ensuring it operates effectively as part of a wider integrated framework. This role provides assurance that environmental requirements are embedded into how the organisation plans, manages and operates its assets, supporting regulatory compliance, risk management and sustainable outcomes.

What you’ll be doing as an Environmental Management Systems Lead:

• Lead the development, maintenance and continual improvement of the Environmental Management System (EMS).
• Ensure the EMS is effectively integrated within the wider Asset Management System (AMS).
• Act as the subject-matter expert for the EMS, providing advice and guidance across the business.
• Work with stakeholders to embed consistent and compliant environmental ways of working.
• Lead assurance activities, including audits, reviews, and management of corrective and improvement actions.
• Ensure environmental risks, obligations and controls are clearly reflected within management system arrangements.
• Translate management system requirements into clear, practical guidance that supports operational delivery.

What you should bring to the role:

• Experience leading or managing an Environmental Management System.
• An understanding of how environmental management systems integrate with wider management and asset management frameworks.
• Experience in scoping and delivering internal audits of EMS.
• Experience in coordinating and leading external ISO 14001 audits.
• Experience in developing and maintaining EMS standards, processes, and procedures.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• The ability to communicate requirements clearly and pragmatically.
• A continuous-improvement mindset.

Why join the IMS team?

• You’ll hold a clear EMS leadership role within a central IMS function.
• You’ll influence how environmental requirements are embedded across the organisation.
• Your work will directly support compliant, sustainable and responsible asset management.
• You’ll be part of a professional team focused on assurance, consistency and continual improvement.

What this means for you:

This is a maternity cover role for someone who wants to lead environmental management at a system level — not in isolation, but as part of an integrated approach that supports how assets are planned, operated and maintained across the business. The successful candidate would benefit from transport access and a driving licence for this role.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary between £45,000 and £60,000 per annum, depending on experience.
• 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays).
• Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
• Access to benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.