Environmental Specialist - London, United Kingdom - Office of Rail and Road

Office of Rail and Road
Office of Rail and Road
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London, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Salary:

- £52,344 - £63,284
  • London or Regional
    Job grade:
  • Grade 7
  • C
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • ORR
  • Railway Performance & Planning
    Type of role:
  • Engineering
  • Environment and Sustainability
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 1Contents
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Location

  • Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London, Manchester, YorkAbout the job

Job summary:


  • The Asset Management team ensures that railway infrastructure managers across Great Britain are following asset management best practice; and that they are spending taxpayers' money efficiently. This covers basic asset management activities such as maintenance and renewals, but also includes specialist activities such as decarbonisation, biodiversity and circular economy.

Job description:


We currently have a vacancy in our Capital Investment, Engineering and Asset Management (CI,E&AM) team for an environmental specialist with experience of working in the field of environmental sustainability.


Reporting to the Principal Engineer this role will support our holding to account work particularly in the areas of carbon reduction, biodiversity, air quality and circular economy.

You will use your own experience to evaluate stakeholder strategies and policies, monitor key performance indicators, lead engagement with stakeholders and assist in development of training of the wider ORR.


There will be a number of interesting challenges ahead for the team including monitoring Network Rail in a devolved environment and working with the wider railway industry to deliver the goals of the different Government stakeholders in these areas.


The job can be delivered from any of our offices but is likely to involve meetings in London, with Network Rail regional business and stakeholders nationally (under normal working arrangements).


Person specification:


  • For key responsibilities please see the attached job description

Memberships:


  • Full members of an appropriate body for example IEMA, CIWEM, CIOB, SocEnv or similar

Technical skills:

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

  • Able to produce high quality and well-written analysis reports, drawing on information from a range of specialist teams such as engineers or economist, identify risks in order to defer/escalate to more senior colleagues.

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Selection process details:


  • This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.
  • Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security:


  • People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks

Nationality requirements:

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)

  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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  • The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
  • We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
  • This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
  • Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

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Job contact:

  • Name:
  • Adrian Humphreys
Recruitment team
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