Environment Manager in London

Salary: 44,380 - 52,212 depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top of the base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

About the role: This role is responsible for providing professional and technical support in the assurance of achieving compliance with environmental minimum requirements, ensuring design and construction is in accordance with organisational and sponsor requirements and policies, environmental commitments, environmental law and regulations. This role is also responsible for providing guidance on environmental design solutions and ensuring environmental issues and constraints are key considerations in project design.

Accountabilities:

• To be responsible for supporting technical assurance through production, checking and submission of assurance evidence for technical stage gates, assuring the design and construction of the assets comply with the technical and sponsor requirements, environmental commitments, environmental law and regulations.
• To be responsible for supporting the Senior Environment Manager in organising, coordinating and undertaking the environment element of the HS2 risk-based technical assurance of the works performed and assured by the Integrated Project Teams (IPT).
• To be accountable for Authorising Mandatory Approvals by assuring that contractor designs and construction works are undertaken in accordance with the Environmental Minimum Requirements (EMRs), with particular emphasis on the General Principles and the CoCP.
• To be accountable for managing and communicating HS2 Environment & Sustainability requirements to the Integrated Project Teams' contractor.
• To be responsible for providing guidance for environmental design solutions for the asset and ensure that environmental issues and constraints are key considerations in project design.
• To be accountable for supporting the Senior Environment Manager with internal and external reporting of environmental matters.
• To be responsible for liaising with technical stakeholders via various forums at local, regional and national levels and the local community on sensitive issues.
• To be accountable for working alongside other technical specialists to develop appropriate and cost-balanced mitigation strategies and solutions.

Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures in EDI.

About You:

Skills:

• Complex problem solving - ability to identify complex problems, review, analyse and interpret a wide range of data and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Decision Making - Ability to gather and synthesise information, identify options and apply judgement based on logic and reason.
• Technical Leadership - Specialist technical support and leadership on all discipline-specific scientific, technical and environmental principles.
• Communication - Ability to communicate many discipline-specific technical ideas to colleagues.
• Data management - Applies principles and methods that ensure effective information management, modelling and data security.

Knowledge:

• Applicable UK environmental law and other relevant construction regulations.
• Understanding of the Regulatory/Legislative Framework relevant to HS2.
• Commercial awareness including understanding of cost delivery, schedule targets and the need to deliver an integrated solution.
• Membership of an appropriate professional institution or equivalent experience.

Experience:

• Experience in managing standards, engineering and environmental activity on large complex major projects/programmes.
• Experience of managing competing project, engineering and environmental demands, with cost and schedule implications.

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application; however, we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review.

HS2 Ltd will be the UK's new high-speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs. HS2 Ltd aims to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.