Weather Resilience & Climate Change Adaptn Strategy Manager

Weather Resilience & Climate Change Adaptn Strategy Manager

IRC

Who We Are

At Network Rail, we're part of a large family serving millions of passengers and freight users throughout the UK every day. Our service impacts millions of people and we strive to become more efficient as we enhance, maintain and operate our network. Now is a fantastic time and join our team in Wales and Western region as we finalise the reforms to our maintenance organisation which will deliver:

• A safer and more reliable and punctual service for passengers and employees - quicker fault fixes by more agile multi-disciplined response teams.
• Individual rostering - enabling us to send the right number or people to fix a fault.
• Multi-skilling - investing in the knowledge and skills of our people so they are better equipped to fix the most common faults themselves.
• Accelerated and improved technology deployment - we have a raft of labour and life-saving technology ready to be rolled out.

Our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We're an organisation where people matter. When your part of our team, you matter to us and you matter to millions. Watch our video to find out more!

About our people and the recruitment process

We're an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone! We look for opportunities to offer great opportunities to learn and grow through personal and professional development. And, if you make the grade then you can look forward to a rewarding and fulfilling career with a company that joined the top 50 in the Glassdoor's 2021 Best Places to Work.

Lead a credible, science-driven strategy to build resilience to increasingly extreme weather patterns into the Wales & Western region's railway.

Provide the strategic lead for the development of the region's weather resilience and climate change adaptation strategy and objectives. Provide the expertise and procedural setting within the Network Rail framework, that will deliver the weather resilience and climate change strategy, including the framework for delivery of weather and climate change projections; integrating weather and climate thresholds into business processes; determining competency/capability and research & development requirements of the business; leading to improvements in short, medium and long term weather resilience of railway operations and provide weather resilience and climate change advice to the business.

Your Main Responsibilities will be to

• Provide strategic direction to the region's executive team. Provide timely and compelling weather resilience and climate change advice rooted in the latest climate science and provide vision and motivational leadership across the business.
• Set the long term functional objectives and framework for weather resilience and climate change delivery across the region in conjunction with key stakeholders in the routes.
• Lead the development, implementation and maintenance of the regions strategy for weather resilience and climate change adaptation
• Lead on developing and embedding weather resilience and climate change requirements and performance measures into business-wide processes and controls to enable the delivery of Network Rail's strategic objectives, maximise business benefits, utilise whole life cost techniques and meet short to long term investment criteria.
• Lead liaison and negotiation with relevant statutory bodies and stakeholders taking into account the business requirements and reputation risks.
• Determine the requirements necessary to comply with statute, external regulations and standards, relating to weather resilience and climate change adaptation and lead on the review and comment on relevant consultations making recommendations to the business.
• Lead engagement with external organisations to influence emerging standards/regulations and identify opportunities for closer collaboration and joint-delivery climate resilience; represent Network Rail and determine requirements for research and development programmes.
• process to be informed by current and future knowledge and learning from incidents.
• Input into weather and climate related capability frameworks, supporting the specifying of business-wide competencies and associated training interventions.

Pay and Rewards

Salary: This role is a Band 2.B.: £71,163 - £86,801per annum.

As a Network Rail employee, you will enjoy a wide range of benefits!

• Privileged staff travel - Leisure travel discount of 75% on all leisure travel and includes family members.
• A subsidy of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets if you travel to work on the train.
• GWR ticket alliance, Heavily discounted all day passes for you and up to 3 friends and family to use across the GWR network (48 passes per year)
• Benefits package including healthcare offers, a cycle to work scheme, discounted healthcare club membership, and a discounted offers and benefits including childcare, healthcare and online shopping site.
• A range of Pension schemes to choose from
• Effectively manage work-life balance with a 35hrsper week contract,hybrid working, flexible working, flexible leave,and enhanced family friendly support.
• 2 weeks paid reserve leave for the Armed Forces community.
• In Wales and Western region, you will have the opportunity to join PROUD, our reward and recognition scheme where you can say thanks and recognise colleagues across the region who have demonstrated outstanding values and behaviours.

More about the role and your application

Closing date: 5th October 2026. Late applications will not be accepted.

This role requires working in the office for a least 60% of the working week

We want to ensure everyone has an equal opportunity. Therefore, s hould you require any reasonable adjustments/modifications, please do let us know by contacting Elisabeth Holmes on

Should you wish to have a chat about this role, please contact Julie Gregory on

Your experience and skills

You will ideally have

• Detailed knowledge of weather resilience and climate change adaptation within the context of transport and/or infrastructure businesses
• Influencing and collaboration - ability to influence decision makers at all levels of seniority and collaborate with Route climate resilience and local delivery teams
• Leadership - ability to lead staff/teams to deliver results
• Excellent understanding of current legislation and related policy and regulation relating to weather resilience and climate change adaptation.
• Proven experience in developing strategy relating to weather resilience and climate change in a complex organisation
• Keeping people safe on the railway is at the heart of everything we do. Safe behaviour is therefore a requirement of wor king for Network Rail.You should demonstrate your personal dedication to safety within your application.

What could set you apart

• Good knowledge of the rail industry
• Member of a relevant institute.
• Proven experience of successful engagement with senior business leaders and policy makers.

Not sure if you meet all the requirements? Let us decide. Some of these criteria may be learnt in role. Therefore, if you do not meet all the criteria, please submit your application. We will screen your application against these criteria to assess the best match.

Key Information

Number of Positions:

1

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full Time

Location:

London Enterprise House, London

Geographical Area:

South West England

Closing Date:

05-OCT-2026

Job Category:

Environment and Sustainability

Function:

Organisation:

EA W&W Regional Head of Resilience & Sustainable Growth ) G1

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