Environmental Compliance Manager (DSEAR)

With c1800 properties, Royal Mail's portfolio is one of the largest corporate estates in Europe. With a diverse property portfolio from local delivery offices in every postal area of the UK, corporate offices, vehicle garages, rail hubs, and our new state-of-the-art fully automated parcel superhubs. Royal Mail Property & Facilities Solutions is responsible for upgrading and safely maintaining one of the largest corporate real estates and property portfolios in Europe. We pride ourselves in working to the highest standards of both technical assurance and customer service. To maintain our high safety standards, we are looking for a Compliance Manager to join our team and lead all matters related to Environmental Compliance and adherence to DSEAR (Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres) regulations and ACOP (Approved Code of Practice) across the diverse Royal Mail estate. The role As the Technical Subject Matter Expert, you will play a crucial part in managing and delivering compliance and remediation across our estate. In this role, you will collaborate with the Health, Safety & Environmental functions to develop and implement the Environment and DSEAR strategy, standards, assurance regimes, and supporting programs. Your focus will be on ensuring compliance with legislative requirements and best practices within environmental management and DSEAR areas and complete risk management of key environmental impacts e.g. fuel, gas, oil etc. Other accountabilities

• SME and legal 'Responsible Person' accountable for the delivery of 'Environmental & DSEAR' Compliance across the Royal Mail Estate providing specialist expertise.
• Develop a compliance framework aimed evidencing statutory and mandatory compliance, ensuring the work is completed to the required quality.
• The delivery, management, and retendering process with the procurement of Specialist 3rd party service and supplier contracts.
• Identifying and investigating trends for reactive maintenance, conduct root cause analysis, technical fault finding and making recommendations.
• Attending customer or business meetings to review performance issues, contribute and be accountable for actions.
• Active participation in industry networking channels/benchmarking/professional bodies to ensure that our customer service interface continually innovates and improves.
• Manage operational issues, escalations, and resolutions with stakeholders.
• Be part of the senior management on call escalation and Out of Hours Duty Manager rota.
• Accountable for the budget and fiscal management for Environmental and DSEAER activities across the Royal Mail estate.
  
  BSc/ MSc in Environmental/DSEAR or equivalent (essential), IOSH (essential) or NEBOSH qualified.
• Up to date accreditations in associated disciplines relating to Environmental and DSEAR (essential).
• Experience managing all technical aspects of Environment and DSEAR including the implementation of ISO management process and systems (essential).
• Experience of environmental and potential explosive substances and atmospheres compliance requirements, risk and management system application.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to inspire and engage teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders, to translate environmental requirements into required actions at an operational level.
• Experience interfacing with customers and management teams including conducting briefings and technical meetings for management and customer representatives.
• Effective communication skills, written, oral and listening skills; strong business acumen and diverse business perspective; ability to think logically and strategically.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills to be able to develop and deliver a plan of work.
  
  Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean 'your' interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place.
Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve. We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required. We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.