Senior Environment Specialist

2 weeks ago

Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom HS2 Full time
Job Description

Base salary: £47,450pa to c.£59,300pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top of base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

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.

As Senior Environment Specialist - Rail Systems you'll manage and implement the environmental requirements of HS2 across Rail Systems (RS) to ensure the long-term sustainability of the HS2 project and to manage its impact on the environment, including adherence to regulatory requirements. The role provides support to the Head of Environment Rail Systems in the reporting of contractor's environmental performance and the development and implementation of HS2's risk-based assurance.

About the role:
  • Provide leadership on Environment and Sustainability to the Rail Systems Client Organisation and the Alliance, directing and coordinating the provision of technical advice and approaches to assure compliance of works undertaken.
  • The role will be responsible for ensuring HS2 Ltd discharges its Nominated Undertaker responsibilities and complying with the EMRs and General Principles and U&As across the Rail Systems Contracts
  • The role will be responsible for development and delivery of a risk-based assurance model for of the HS2 Rail Systems contracts, evidencing compliance with HS2s Environmental and Sustainability requirements, the law and consents, licences or permissions required.
  • Work closely with the MWCC IPT Heads of Engineering and Environment to manage the technical interface between the Main Works Civils and Rail Systems contracts. This will include managing and agreeing technical capability is released in controlled manner from IPTs to support the delivery of technical assurance of Rail Systems works.
  • Encourage use of best practice and drive consistency in the application of HS2 environment processes, policies, standards, and requirements across Rail Systems Contracts
  • Assist with the provision of functional responses to requests made under the Rail Systems Contracts (e.g. Departures, RFI, Early Warnings)
  • The role will support the Rail Systems interface with key environmental statutory and key environmental stakeholders.
  • Support Technical Directorate in defining technical environmental requirements for works delivered by HS2's contract partners.
  • Support the business reporting cycle ensure environmental risks, performance and issues are communicated within Rail Systems.
  • Monitor and report environment & sustainability assessment and assurance outcomes within Rail Systems and provide regular status reports to the Head of Environment Rail Systems and the other stakeholders.
  • Support responses to environmentally themed enquiries from the public and other stakeholders under Freedom of Information Act and Environmental Information Regulations, on behalf of Rail Systems. This includes Ministerial queries, Parliamentary questions, and media enquiries.
  • Support the identification and management of Rail Systems environmental risks (threats and opportunities).
  • Assist with the inclusion of technical environmental requirements into relevant procurement activities and provide review and assurance of the procurement activities.
  • Champion the environmental aspects of the Rail Systems programme and build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, relevant Government Departments, the public and other interested parties to gain their buy-in and input required to achieve environmental requirements.
  • Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work. Support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

About You:

Skills:
  • Complex problem solving - identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. This includes the management and planning of multiple workstreams and the competing demands of stakeholders.
  • Decision Quality - Gathering and synthesising information, identifying options and applying sound judgement based on logic and reason, making use of a variety of analytical approaches to provide relevant information to suppliers, stakeholders and decision makers using key facts and data.
  • Technical Leadership - Can confidently communicate most discipline-specific technical ideas to stakeholders and colleagues, based on examples of application.
  • Technical Leadership - Applies principles and methods that ensure effective information management, modelling and data security; understands the approaches and consequences to data creation, transformation and visualisation and knowing when to seek guidance from Subject Matter Experts.
  • Technical Leadership - Specialist technical support and leadership on discipline specific analysis, problem solving and design techniques but, knowing when to seek further guidance from Subject Matter Expert or others.
  • Technical Communication - Able to communicate some discipline-specific technical ideas to colleagues, based largely on examples of application.
  • Influencing & Negotiation skills - including external and internal stakeholders
  • Organisation & Planning skills - including working to agreed timescales, cost and quality requirements.

Knowledge:
  • Knowledge of the UK context surrounding HS2, which includes having knowledge and understanding of the political and environmental implications which may/may have impacted HS2.
  • Understanding of the Environmental and Sustainability Regulatory/ Legislative Framework relevant to HS2.
  • Commercial awareness including understanding of cost delivery, schedule targets and the need to deliver an integrated solution that meets all functional requirements.
  • Membership of an appropriate professional institution or the equivalent experience.

Type of Experience:
  • Experience of working to multi-disciplinary standards and managing environmental activity on major projects/ programmes within multi-discipline project teams.
  • Experience of managing and achieving positive environmental outcomes within engineering, technical, cost and schedule demands.
  • Experience of environmental project management gained across a range of environmental disciplines and processes.
  • Experience of assuring environmental management systems, reporting, designs and construction activities.
  • Experience of stakeholder management including external stakeholders such as consent granting bodies and sponsors.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect

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.

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. Please attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application and include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. .

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 and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

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. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.About Us

High Speed 2 (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 will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

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.

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.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.

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