Senior Energy & Carbon Manager

Join our dynamic team within The Route Services Environment and Sustainable Development team, where we are actively shaping the sustainability strategy nationwide. We're seeking a passionate individual to fill a newly created role in our team, which currently consists of six members, including Environment Managers, Specialists, and an Assistant.

As part of this team, you'll play a pivotal role in steering the Route Services Sustainability Framework and Functional Sustainability Delivery Plans (SDPs) to align with national objectives and targets. Your expertise will drive Route Services towards its Net Zero Journey, influencing stakeholders and contributing directly to the execution of our decarbonisation programme.

With Route Services' substantial decarbonisation budget allocated over the next 5 years, your role will be instrumental in ensuring optimal resource utilisation and driving impactful decarbonisation initiatives. This is an opportunity to make a tangible difference and contribute significantly to our organisation's ambitious sustainability goals.

This role offers flexibility with the option to be based at any of our main Network Rail offices, including London, Milton Keynes, Birmingham, or York. Please note that regular travel to our main offices and various site locations is expected. The Environment and Sustainable Development team holds routine meetings in London and Milton Keynes a few times a month, with occasional attendance required in Birmingham and Manchester. Additionally, the job's nationwide element means it will take you to various locations across the country.

We have adopted a hybrid working model, where attendance at a Network Rail location is expected 40-60% of the time on average.

Initially, this role will not entail any line management responsibilities. However, as you progress, you will be expected to take on line management duties for graduate placements, provide coaching to junior team members, and act as a deputy for the Head of Environment and Sustainable Development as needed., Implement the 'low energy and carbon' sustainability priority for the Route Services directorate through strategic coordination. Oversee the Decarbonisation Programme within Route Services, offering expertise in energy and carbon to efficiently allocate the carbon budget. Support Route Services by developing strategies for energy and carbon reduction, creating alignment with obligations and exploring additional opportunities to meet ambitious decarbonisation goals.

• Supervise the execution of the low energy and carbon strategy priority across Route Services (RS) including co-ordinating the strategic actions needed to establish a robust decarbonisation programme.


• Establish Route Services' Decarbonisation requirements, milestones, and targets in accordance with Network Rail's national and regulatory carbon reduction commitment, facilitating the development of a revised 'low energy and carbon' roadmap for Route Services aligned with the Route Services Sustainability Framework and National Decarbonisation Programmes.


• Offer authoritative expertise in utilities management, energy efficiency and carbon reduction to the Executive leadership team, function programme leads, and project delivery teams. Utilise expertise to enhance overall energy efficiency and achieving substantial carbon reduction within Route Services.


• Direct Route Services' decarbonisation panel, guiding discussions and pivotal decisions among senior stakeholders to assess funding allocations and select decarbonisation projects for implementation.


• Develop a comprehensive summary of Route Services' progress against its decarbonisation programme by collaborating with programme representatives and multiple information sources in order to create a consolidated overview showcasing performance against strategy commitments.


• Identify and prepare decarbonisation business cases, bids and proposals with stakeholders that will assist in achieving carbon reduction objectives.


• Oversee Route Services' emissions reporting dashboard. Monitor, track, and forecast carbon performance, providing ongoing intelligence to key stakeholders. Collaborate with specific delivery partners to enhance and update data for improved accuracy and insights.


• Represent Route Services in national steering groups and maintain critical connections with regional and national colleagues, including active involvement in several energy and carbon steering groups. Collaborate with third party industry partners on behalf of Route Services.


• Assure the decarbonisation plans and delivery outputs and outcomes against the 'low energy and carbon' priority in the Route Services Sustainability Framework in order to develop overall status of programme effectiveness.


• Identify and assess opportunities for improvement, specify industry best practices, and drive innovative solutions in order to find practical solutions for complex decarbonisation challenges, including research into cutting-edge technologies.
  
  Essential


• Batchelors degree in Engineering or demonstrable equivalent experience/qualifications


• Chartered Membership of a recognised professional body (such as EMA, CIBSE, the Energy Institute, IMechE, IET) or working towards it.


• Proven track record in energy management, carbon reduction, or related sustainability roles.


• Good understanding of energy and carbon management processes and techniques and current energy, carbon, and environmental legislation


• Demonstrated expertise in applying specialised energy and carbon management system standards or related certification benchmarks, (such as ISO 50001, ISO 14064, LEED, BREEAM Infrastructure and PAS 2080) within organisational frameworks.


• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement skills for effective liaison with diverse audiences.


• A strategic thinker with problem-solving skills and the ability to navigate complex challenges in a dynamic environment with minimal supervision.


• Proficiency in data analysis and strong report and proposal writing skills with experience in presenting data insightfully.


• Demonstrates a deep understanding of utilities and building systems and services to provide a level of insight and ability to help develop and challenge specifications.


Desirable

• Educated to advanced degree level - MBA or similar.


• Experience in transferring own skills and/or mentoring of other staff and creating joint/collaborative initiatives. Ability to identify and analyse trends in consumption and costs to drive efficiencies.


• Experience of introducing new processes and techniques to build momentum for change in complex and inert/change adverse environments.


• Demonstrable skills in multifaceted project management, leading initiatives from conception to implementation (e.g. PRINCE2).


• Knowledge of Network Rail's or/and asset rich industries' systems and processes
  
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