Environmental Systems Manager - Fixed Term until March 2027
| Posting date: | 20 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £42,931 to £47,702 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 July 2025 |
| Location: | Mansfield, Midlands, NG184RG |
| Company: | The Coal Authority |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 57034431 |
Summary
About You
Are you passionate about protecting the environment and driving real change?
- Do you thrive on improving environmental performance through ISO 14001?
- Can you design and communicate clear, effective processes that lead to continual improvement?
- Do you enjoy collaborating with diverse teams delivering a wide range of services?
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!
About The Role
We’re looking for an enthusiastic and proactive Environmental Systems Manager to join our team on a fixed-term basis until March 2027. In this role, you’ll support the Principal Environmental Compliance Manager in enhancing and delivering our Environmental Management System (EMS), helping us manage environmental risks and improve operational practices.
You Will:
- Review and refresh the EMS to ensure it remains aligned with ISO 14001 and fit for purpose.
- Engage with teams across the business to understand what’s working and what needs improvement.
- Lead the rollout of updated policies and procedures, embedding environmental and sustainability awareness.
- Manage a robust audit programme, ensuring lessons are learned and improvements are implemented.
- Monitor and report on performance against environmental plans and targets.
What We’re Looking For
We value diverse experiences and perspectives. Even if you don’t meet every requirement, if you’re excited about the role and believe you can make a difference, we encourage you to apply.
Want to know more?
Check out the full job description for further details
Role location: Hybrid working (on average 2 days working out of our Mansfield office)
Schedule:
Application closing date: 6th July 2025
Sifting date: 7th July 2025
Interviews: 15th and 16th July 2025
(If you are unavailable on these interview dates, please make us aware and we will look at alternative dates)
Security:
Successful candidates must pass basic security checks and will be subject to UK Immigration requirements.
About Mining Remediation Authority
Our benefits:
- A cutting-edge pension scheme with an impressive employer contribution rate of approximately 28.97%.
- Experience our values-based recognition scheme that celebrates your contributions.
- Flexibility in working patterns, whether it's full-time, part-time, or compressed hours.
- Embrace flexible working arrangements tailored to your needs.
- Enjoy a generous holiday allowance of 27.5 days annually, plus the flexibility to add 6 extra days to that, alongside 8 public holidays.
- Benefit from a comprehensive parental leave policy with 26 weeks of full pay (subject to eligibility).
- Get support to further your professional qualifications and payment for one annual professional subscription.
- Access a free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme to support your well-being.
- Unlock exclusive employee discounts
- Ensure your well-being with an annual health check and receive £15 monthly towards well-being activities.
- Enjoy the convenience of on-site free parking, along with complimentary tea, coffee, and soft drinks at our Mansfield office.
Working with us:
We offer different ways to work flexibly, and the following types of flexibility are usually possible: job share, flexible hours, working from home for part of the week and compressed hours. Please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview.
With a genuine commitment to flexible working, we believe that work life balance is incredibly important.
Who we are:
Here at the Mining Remediation Authority, we really are a great team to work with. We’re united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.
We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping everyone and everything safe from mine water pollution.
We are excited about what our future holds. Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK. By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net-zero emissions by 2050.
We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values. We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:
As part of our commitment to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria who are disabled or from a minority ethnic community.
We want to recruit you based on your skills and experience, and not the colour of your skin, where you come from, or who you share your life with. What’s important is that you can carry out your role effectively. That’s why, when you submit your application to us, we remove all your personal data before the hiring manager reviews your details. If you are successful and you join us, you can be confident that this is because we trust that you will be successful and can make a difference. By continuing to improve our diversity, we continue to improve our knowledge and innovation and live our values of being trusted, inclusive and progressive.
If you have the skills and experience that we are looking for, but you require an alternative application form or other reasonable adjustments to apply, let us know. You can get in touch by email at Recruitment@MiningRemediation.gov.uk or give us a call on 01623 637000.
Are you passionate about protecting the environment and driving real change?
- Do you thrive on improving environmental performance through ISO 14001?
- Can you design and communicate clear, effective processes that lead to continual improvement?
- Do you enjoy collaborating with diverse teams delivering a wide range of services?
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!
About The Role
We’re looking for an enthusiastic and proactive Environmental Systems Manager to join our team on a fixed-term basis until March 2027. In this role, you’ll support the Principal Environmental Compliance Manager in enhancing and delivering our Environmental Management System (EMS), helping us manage environmental risks and improve operational practices.
You Will:
- Review and refresh the EMS to ensure it remains aligned with ISO 14001 and fit for purpose.
- Engage with teams across the business to understand what’s working and what needs improvement.
- Lead the rollout of updated policies and procedures, embedding environmental and sustainability awareness.
- Manage a robust audit programme, ensuring lessons are learned and improvements are implemented.
- Monitor and report on performance against environmental plans and targets.
What We’re Looking For
We value diverse experiences and perspectives. Even if you don’t meet every requirement, if you’re excited about the role and believe you can make a difference, we encourage you to apply.
Want to know more?
Check out the full job description for further details
Role location: Hybrid working (on average 2 days working out of our Mansfield office)
Schedule:
Application closing date: 6th July 2025
Sifting date: 7th July 2025
Interviews: 15th and 16th July 2025
(If you are unavailable on these interview dates, please make us aware and we will look at alternative dates)
Security:
Successful candidates must pass basic security checks and will be subject to UK Immigration requirements.
About Mining Remediation Authority
Our benefits:
- A cutting-edge pension scheme with an impressive employer contribution rate of approximately 28.97%.
- Experience our values-based recognition scheme that celebrates your contributions.
- Flexibility in working patterns, whether it's full-time, part-time, or compressed hours.
- Embrace flexible working arrangements tailored to your needs.
- Enjoy a generous holiday allowance of 27.5 days annually, plus the flexibility to add 6 extra days to that, alongside 8 public holidays.
- Benefit from a comprehensive parental leave policy with 26 weeks of full pay (subject to eligibility).
- Get support to further your professional qualifications and payment for one annual professional subscription.
- Access a free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme to support your well-being.
- Unlock exclusive employee discounts
- Ensure your well-being with an annual health check and receive £15 monthly towards well-being activities.
- Enjoy the convenience of on-site free parking, along with complimentary tea, coffee, and soft drinks at our Mansfield office.
Working with us:
We offer different ways to work flexibly, and the following types of flexibility are usually possible: job share, flexible hours, working from home for part of the week and compressed hours. Please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview.
With a genuine commitment to flexible working, we believe that work life balance is incredibly important.
Who we are:
Here at the Mining Remediation Authority, we really are a great team to work with. We’re united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.
We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping everyone and everything safe from mine water pollution.
We are excited about what our future holds. Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK. By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net-zero emissions by 2050.
We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values. We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:
As part of our commitment to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria who are disabled or from a minority ethnic community.
We want to recruit you based on your skills and experience, and not the colour of your skin, where you come from, or who you share your life with. What’s important is that you can carry out your role effectively. That’s why, when you submit your application to us, we remove all your personal data before the hiring manager reviews your details. If you are successful and you join us, you can be confident that this is because we trust that you will be successful and can make a difference. By continuing to improve our diversity, we continue to improve our knowledge and innovation and live our values of being trusted, inclusive and progressive.
If you have the skills and experience that we are looking for, but you require an alternative application form or other reasonable adjustments to apply, let us know. You can get in touch by email at Recruitment@MiningRemediation.gov.uk or give us a call on 01623 637000.
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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.