Environmental Protection Lead

Dstl; Salisbury; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Dstl Porton Down, Salisbury, is seeking an Environmental Protection Lead to provide strategic leadership for environmental management across the organisation, shaping the direction, standards and culture that underpin safe, sustainable and responsible operations in a complex environment.

You will develop and deliver the Environmental Protection Strategy, ensure governance and regulatory compliance, embed best practice, advise senior leaders, coach a team of environmental specialists, and build

Qualifications

• Experience leading environmental management programmes in complex/high-hazard environments.
• Strong leadership, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience delivering environmental audits, compliance programmes and management systems.
• A sound understanding of environmental legislation, sustainability best practice and governance.
• Knowledge of ISO 14001 and environmental risk management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and champion Dstl's environmental strategy, policies and management systems.
• Drive environmental compliance, assurance and continuous improvement across the organisation.
• Develop and maintain Dstl's Environmental Management System, aligned with JSP 816 and ISO 14001 principles.
• Provide expert environmental advice to colleagues and senior leaders.
• Lead, coach and develop a team of environmental specialists.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to improve environmental performance.
• Oversee environmental risks, impacts and governance arrangements.
• Represent Dstl in professional forums and identify opportunities to adopt emerging good practice and innovation.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Environmental governance

Audit experience

Regulatory compliance

ISO 14001 knowledge

Environmental risk management

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Environmental Management or related field

NEBOSH General Certificate Level 3 or equivalent

Job description

Dstl Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 0JQ

At Dstl, our vision is to have a modern way of working efficiently, accommodating and enabling our people to create, collaborate and deliver. To do this successfully in this job will require attendance at a Dstl location; Government Departments including wider MoD or Delivery and Mission Partner's premises for 60% of your working time. Where business needs allow, and with the agreement of your line manager, there may be the option for a combination of workplace and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement.

About the job

Job summary

Are you passionate about driving environmental excellence in a complex and innovative organisation?

As Dstl's Environmental Protection Lead, you will provide strategic leadership for environmental management across the organisation, shaping the direction, standards and culture that support safe, sustainable and responsible operations.

Working closely with the Chief Safety Officer and Head of Safety, you will lead the development and delivery of Dstl's Environmental Protection Strategy, ensuring strong governance, regulatory compliance and continual improvement. You will play a key role in influencing senior stakeholders, developing environmental capability and embedding best practice across Dstl.

Dstl recognises the importance of diversity and inclusion as people from diverse backgrounds bring fresh ideas. We are committed to building an inclusive working environment in which each employee fulfils their potential and maximises their contribution.

In this role you will:

• Lead and champion Dstl's environmental strategy, policies and management systems.
• Drive environmental compliance, assurance and continuous improvement across the organisation.
• Develop and maintain Dstl's Environmental Management System, aligned with JSP 816 and ISO 14001 principles.
• Provide expert environmental advice to colleagues and senior leaders.
• Lead, coach and develop a team of environmental specialists.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to improve environmental performance.
• Oversee environmental risks, impacts and governance arrangements.
• Represent Dstl in professional forums and identify opportunities to adopt emerging good practice and innovation.

Person specification

We're seeking an experienced environmental professional with:

• Significant experience leading environmental management programmes in complex or high-hazard environments.
• Strong leadership, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience delivering environmental audits, compliance programmes and management systems.
• A sound understanding of environmental legislation, sustainability best practice and environmental governance.
• Knowledge of ISO 14001 and environmental risk management.

Our work in defence, security and intelligence requires our employees to be UK Nationals who are able to gain a high level of security clearance to undertake the projects we are involved in to protect us from security threats. For this reason, only UK Nationals will be able to apply for this role. If you are an international or dual-national candidate, and you think you have the skills we need, please consider applying to any of our government, security or defence partners.

This role will require full UK security clearance and you should have resided in the UK for the past 5 years. For some roles Developed Vetting will also be required, in this case you should have resided in the UK for the past 10 years.

Qualifications

A bachelors or master's degree or Environmental qualification at National Qualifications Framework Level 5, such as IEMSA Certificate in Environmental Management, or equivalent.

NEBOSH General Certificate Level 3 or equivalent

Memberships

Practitioner level membership of an environmental professional body (e.g. PIEMA)