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On behalf of Network Rail, we are looking for an Environmental Specialist for a 8 month contract based hybrid in either East Midlands, Anglia or London Stratford.

Network Rail is at the heart of revitalising Britain’s railway. From Crossrail – Europe’s largest civil engineering project – to investment in world-class stations and major programmes of electrification, we are involved in some of the most ambitious and diverse ventures that this country has ever seen. We at Network Rail are dedicated to becoming one of Britain's best employers and believe this starts with placing the candidate at the heart of everything we do!

Role:

This role is ideal for an environmental professional who enjoys balancing site-based inspections, stakeholder engagement, compliance monitoring, and technical report writing.

Working across multiple locations, you will play a key role in ensuring environmental compliance, driving sustainability improvements, and supporting operational teams with expert environmental guidance.

This position offers a varied workload, combining field inspections, performance monitoring, stakeholder collaboration, and environmental management activities within a large and complex infrastructure environment.

As an Environmental Specialist, your main responsibilities will be to:

• Provide expert environmental advice and guidance to support legislative compliance across operational activities.
• Conduct environmental inspections, audits, and surveillance activities at depots and operational sites.
• Produce high-quality environmental reports, action plans, inspections findings, and compliance documentation.
• Update and maintain environmental records, documentation, and management system requirements.
• Monitor environmental performance and track the closure of non-conformances and corrective actions.
• Support the implementation of environmental management systems and sustainability initiatives.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with internal teams, contractors, and environmental stakeholders.
• Identify environmental risks, opportunities for improvement, and areas requiring corrective action.
• Contribute to the development of environmental plans, procedures, standards, and guidance documents.
• Support environmental awareness campaigns, presentations, and communications across the business.
• Assist in monitoring sustainability performance and contributing to performance reporting.

Essential: 

• Demonstrable experience in environmental report writing and producing technical documentation.
• Experience carrying out environmental fieldwork, inspections, audits, or compliance assessments.
• Strong knowledge of UK and European environmental legislation and regulatory requirements.
• Good understanding of Environmental Management Systems (EMS).
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Desirable:

• Experience working within a rail, infrastructure, construction, utilities, or other highly regulated operational environment.
• Knowledge of the operational railway environment.
• Understanding of ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Network Rail is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. They welcome applications from everyone.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Network Rail guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

Network Rail guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".