Environmental and Sustainability Manager
Location: Warrington or Carlisle
Reporting to: Head of Health and Safety
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced and proactive Environmental and Sustainability Manager to promote a positive environmental culture across Nuclear Transport Solutions (NTS). This role plays a key part in supporting and developing our Sustainability Strategy, ensuring compliance with environmental standards, and driving continuous improvement across the organisation and its supply chain.
You will act as a subject matter expert, providing guidance across the business, monitoring environmental performance, and ensuring NTS meets industry, stakeholder, and customer requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the development and ongoing review of the NTS Sustainability Strategy, Carbon Management Plan, and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) performance
- Ensure environmental processes and procedures meet required standards and compliance obligations
- Support the development and tracking of the environmental audit schedule
- Deliver environmental awareness training across the business
- Undertake auditing and assurance activities to ensure compliance by NTS employees, contractors, and supply chain partners
- Monitor and track corrective actions, ensuring timely and effective close-out
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of the NTS Management System
- Provide advice and support to managers and functional leads on environmental matters
- Represent the Nuclear & Assurance function in meetings with customers, regulators, and professional bodies
- Communicate environmental performance, risks, and key topics across the organisation
- Maintain awareness of good practice within the nuclear rail and shipping industries
What We’re Looking For
Qualifications
- Degree in an environmental-related discipline
- Practitioner Membership of IEMA (or working towards)
Experience & Skills
- Strong knowledge and experience of ISO 14001 requirements (essential)
- Ability to build effective working relationships across internal teams and external stakeholders (essential)
- Experience in environmental auditing and assurance activities (desirable)
- Knowledge of investigation techniques, including root cause analysis (desirable)
- Ability to analyse data and identify trends to drive performance improvements (desirable)
- Experience in improving processes and driving environmental performance (desirable)
About You
You will be a confident and credible environmental professional, able to influence and engage across all levels of the organisation. You will bring a collaborative approach, attention to detail, and a strong commitment to continuous improvement.
Our Culture
At NTS, we are guided by three core principles:
- Freedom – creating an environment where our people are empowered to perform
- Helpfulness – working together to support each other and our customers
- Drive – being confident, curious, and innovative
Additional Information
- No direct reports; reporting to the Head of HSE Nuclear & Assurance
- Supporting an employee base of approximately 700 across NTS
- Regular travel required, including potential international engagement
- You may be required to undertake additional duties in line with your role, skills, and grade
Why NTS?
At NTS, our people are trusted to perform, supported to grow and encouraged to be curious and innovative. We create an environment where you’re given the freedom to do your job well, the support of a strong team, and the opportunity to help shape the future of safe and reliable rail operations.
The Kind of People We’re Looking For
We’re interested in who you are, not just what’s on your CV.
You’re likely to thrive at NTS if you:
You don’t need to tick every box on day one — we value potential, attitude and alignment with our culture just as much as experience.
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