Job Description
Salary: Base salary: £61,622 pa to c£77,028 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a 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.
About the role
As a Senior Environment Manager EK at HS2 you will be responsible for leading the Integrated Project Team (IPT), assuring that design and construction within the team is in accordance with organisational and sponsor requirements and policies (including the Environmental Minimum Requirements (EMRs)), environmental commitments, environmental law and regulations. This role is responsible for providing client delivery support to the IPT through guidance on environmental design and construction requirements and assuring that environmental issues and constraints are key considerations in project design and construction implementation.
Responsibilities
* Overall accountability for leading on environmental technical assurance in the IPT through production, checking and submission of assurance evidence for technical stage gates, ensuring design and construction comply with technical and sponsor requirements, environmental commitments, environmental law and regulations.
* Support the Head of Engineering and Environment in organising, coordinating and undertaking the environment element of the HS2 risk‑based technical assurance of the works performed and assured by the IPT.
* Work as part of an integrated team alongside specialists and contractors, liaising with a range of technical stakeholders, including statutory bodies, to develop appropriate and cost‑balanced mitigation strategies and solutions and play an integral role in reducing the detrimental impact of the scheme on the environment.
* Be accountable for authorising mandatory approvals by ensuring contractor designs and construction works are undertaken in accordance with EMRs, with particular emphasis on the General Principles and the CoCP.
* Support the efficient handling of enquiries (including Freedom of Information and Engineering Information Requests) ensuring statutory requirements are met.
* Lead management and communication of HS2 Environment & Sustainability requirements to the IPT contractor, ensuring environmental sustainability issues are embedded as an integral part of design and construction.
* Provide guidance alongside other technical specialists to achieve high quality integrated designs and develop appropriate cost‑balanced mitigation strategies and solutions.
* Support the Head of Engineering and Environment with internal and external reporting of environmental matters.
* Ensure requirements are developed in a timely manner, working collaboratively with the Client and central Environment team in HS2.
* Liaise with technical stakeholders via various forums at local, regional and national levels and the local community on sensitive issues.
* Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures in EDI.
About You
Skills
* Complex problem solving – ability to identify, review, analyse, and interpret a wide range of data, evaluate options and implement solutions consistent with other working.
* Decision quality – ability to gather and synthesise information, identify options and apply judgement based on logic and reason and make use of a variety of analytical approaches to provide relevant information to suppliers, stakeholders and decision makers using key facts and data.
* Technical leadership – specialist technical support and leadership on all discipline‑specific scientific, technical, and environmental principles, knowing when to seek further guidance from a Subject Matter Expert or others.
* Communication – ability to communicate discipline‑specific technical ideas to colleagues, based largely on examples of application.
* Data management – 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 knows when to seek guidance from a Subject Matter Expert.
Knowledge
* Applicable UK environmental law and other relevant construction regulations including Construction Design Management (CDM) 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 that meets all functional requirements.
* Chartered Environmentalist/Membership of an appropriate professional institution or equivalent experience.
Experience
* Experience in managing multi‑disciplinary engineering and environmental standards, activity on large complex major projects/programmes within a complex infrastructure delivery programme.
* Experience of managing competing project, engineering and environmental demands, with cost and schedule implications.
Legal and EEO Statements
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.
Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application. HS2 Ltd does not hold a sponsorship licence, so no sponsorship will be provided.
Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
The post-holder is expected to actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
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