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Energy and Environment Manager - Engineering
| Posting date: | 24 October 2024 |
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| Salary: | £36,140 to £45,021 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 October 2024 |
| Location: | Manchester, Greater Manchester |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Northern Trains Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Hybrid/expectation to travel to/from TrainCare Centre's
Is Environmental sustainability ‘Your Thing’?
We’re looking for an experienced Manager with an environmental background to join our Energy and Environment team.
Climate change, resource scarcity, clean air and habitat recovery are some of the key challenges the world is facing today. Northern is committed to reducing its environmental impact whilst seeking to deliver opportunities to enhance the environment we operate in and the communities we serve.
You will play a key part in addressing these issues by providing expert advice and support to our Management team across Engineering Central and West TrainCare Centre's in Blackburn, Manchester and Liverpool, ensuring we deliver interventions and achieve our energy and environment targets and ambitions.
Due to the nature and scale of our engineering activities there is potential to cause significant environmental harm. It is imperative that we maintain strong control measures, a positive environmental culture and high levels of compliance. You will be critical to how we achieve this.
Ready to make them yours? Join us on this journey.
Key responsibilities:
Advise senior engineering teams on energy and environment compliance
Collaborate with teams on investigations, root cause analysis, and solutions for risks and performance issues
Ensure local plans align with legislation, targets and energy and environment strategies
Work with local teams to understand their energy and environmental performance data to drive actions
Support Depot Management in executing energy and environment plans
Track critical activities reporting to Senior Management, investigations and monitoring trends
Reduce environmental risks in projects and identify resource-saving opportunities
Promote an energy and environment culture through communication, training, and outreach
Test and monitor control measures, training effectiveness and compliance checks
Maintain ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 processes locally, including inspections and action tracking and investigation
About you:
You’ll need an understanding of both energy and environmental management systems and legislation with experience in delivering improvements and undertaking incident investigation in a high risk area. We need someone who can hit the ground running!
We’re also looking for someone who has, or is working towards:
Environmental related degree/level 6 equivalent
IEMA Practitioner
With the following skills:
Ability to understand and clearly present performance and compliance information
Can build trust, networks, relationships, Influence, motivate and lead
Translates corporate strategies into local plans
Background in advisory roles addressing issues beyond direct influence
Our Benefits:
At Northern we value our people and reward their hard work, we’ve created benefits we think you’ll love:
Opportunities to progress and grow - including comprehensive training schemes and a range of online learning courses
Free Travel on Northern services - everyone who works at Northern, plus their partners/spouses and dependents, can travel for free right across our full network of services. *Certain eligibility criteria will apply
75% discount with other Train Operating Companies - after 1 year with us, you’ll also get discounted travel on many other rail services in the UK and Europe
Defined Benefit Pension Scheme - you’ll rarely find a pension as good as a Northern pension, and we top up your pension with a generous 1.5 times your contribution
Employee Assistance Programme - advice, support and useful information 24 hours a day, 365 days a year on everything from family issues to lifestyle matters
Exclusive benefits with Northern Perks - enjoy retail discounts, instant vouchers, cashback, wellbeing support and much more
You can find out more here
Connecting millions of people and communities across the North is our mission. With 2,500 trains a day, we connect people to jobs, friends, family, and the wonders of the North.
We're improving rail travel, enhancing the experience on board and at stations. Customers are at the heart of our business as we improve performance and create a better way to go.
We're driving economic value and sustainable growth for the North and its people. Our commitment to the environment means reducing our impact and enhancing the world around us.
Make a difference. Make it last. Make it yours. Make it easy. Make it happen. These are our values.
Ready to make them yours? Join us on this journey.
Please note that Northern reserves the right to close recruitment for this role before the published closing date, if high volumes of applications are received.
However, if you miss the application window for this particular role, please keep checking back for other opportunities.
We are always on the lookout for great people to join the Northern Team!
We’re an equal opportunities employer and a promoter of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We encourage and welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of gender, sex, ethnicity, race, religion, education, socioeconomic background, disability, or sexual orientation.
We also have Disability Confident status, which means we’re committed to making the most of the talents that disabled people can bring to the workplace.
Is Environmental sustainability ‘Your Thing’?
We’re looking for an experienced Manager with an environmental background to join our Energy and Environment team.
Climate change, resource scarcity, clean air and habitat recovery are some of the key challenges the world is facing today. Northern is committed to reducing its environmental impact whilst seeking to deliver opportunities to enhance the environment we operate in and the communities we serve.
You will play a key part in addressing these issues by providing expert advice and support to our Management team across Engineering Central and West TrainCare Centre's in Blackburn, Manchester and Liverpool, ensuring we deliver interventions and achieve our energy and environment targets and ambitions.
Due to the nature and scale of our engineering activities there is potential to cause significant environmental harm. It is imperative that we maintain strong control measures, a positive environmental culture and high levels of compliance. You will be critical to how we achieve this.
Ready to make them yours? Join us on this journey.
Key responsibilities:
Advise senior engineering teams on energy and environment compliance
Collaborate with teams on investigations, root cause analysis, and solutions for risks and performance issues
Ensure local plans align with legislation, targets and energy and environment strategies
Work with local teams to understand their energy and environmental performance data to drive actions
Support Depot Management in executing energy and environment plans
Track critical activities reporting to Senior Management, investigations and monitoring trends
Reduce environmental risks in projects and identify resource-saving opportunities
Promote an energy and environment culture through communication, training, and outreach
Test and monitor control measures, training effectiveness and compliance checks
Maintain ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 processes locally, including inspections and action tracking and investigation
About you:
You’ll need an understanding of both energy and environmental management systems and legislation with experience in delivering improvements and undertaking incident investigation in a high risk area. We need someone who can hit the ground running!
We’re also looking for someone who has, or is working towards:
Environmental related degree/level 6 equivalent
IEMA Practitioner
With the following skills:
Ability to understand and clearly present performance and compliance information
Can build trust, networks, relationships, Influence, motivate and lead
Translates corporate strategies into local plans
Background in advisory roles addressing issues beyond direct influence
Our Benefits:
At Northern we value our people and reward their hard work, we’ve created benefits we think you’ll love:
Opportunities to progress and grow - including comprehensive training schemes and a range of online learning courses
Free Travel on Northern services - everyone who works at Northern, plus their partners/spouses and dependents, can travel for free right across our full network of services. *Certain eligibility criteria will apply
75% discount with other Train Operating Companies - after 1 year with us, you’ll also get discounted travel on many other rail services in the UK and Europe
Defined Benefit Pension Scheme - you’ll rarely find a pension as good as a Northern pension, and we top up your pension with a generous 1.5 times your contribution
Employee Assistance Programme - advice, support and useful information 24 hours a day, 365 days a year on everything from family issues to lifestyle matters
Exclusive benefits with Northern Perks - enjoy retail discounts, instant vouchers, cashback, wellbeing support and much more
You can find out more here
Connecting millions of people and communities across the North is our mission. With 2,500 trains a day, we connect people to jobs, friends, family, and the wonders of the North.
We're improving rail travel, enhancing the experience on board and at stations. Customers are at the heart of our business as we improve performance and create a better way to go.
We're driving economic value and sustainable growth for the North and its people. Our commitment to the environment means reducing our impact and enhancing the world around us.
Make a difference. Make it last. Make it yours. Make it easy. Make it happen. These are our values.
Ready to make them yours? Join us on this journey.
Please note that Northern reserves the right to close recruitment for this role before the published closing date, if high volumes of applications are received.
However, if you miss the application window for this particular role, please keep checking back for other opportunities.
We are always on the lookout for great people to join the Northern Team!
We’re an equal opportunities employer and a promoter of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We encourage and welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of gender, sex, ethnicity, race, religion, education, socioeconomic background, disability, or sexual orientation.
We also have Disability Confident status, which means we’re committed to making the most of the talents that disabled people can bring to the workplace.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.