SHE Environment Manager - 12 month secondment

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Date: 11 Sept 2026

Location: London, TfL Corporate

Company: TfL, GLA or OPDC

Job title: SHE Environment Manager
Salary: £60,000 to £62,000 dependent on skills, knowledge, and experience
Grade: Band 3
Contract type: TfL
Reference: 5670
Team: Corporate Environment
Contract details: 12 month FTC (possibility of becoming permanent subject to business requirements and approval)
Location: Palestra /hybrid

 

Application closing date: 22nd Novemeber  @23.59

 

Please Note: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high volume of applications; therefore, we encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible.

 

All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory right‑to‑work checks.  Candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK.  At the present time TfL is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.   

Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.  

About the Role

At Transport for London (TfL), we're committed to creating a greener, more sustainable future for London. We're looking for an experienced Energy and Carbon Manager to join our Sustainability, Energy and Carbon team on a 12-month fixed-term contract or secondment.

This is a unique opportunity to influence the decarbonisation of one of the UK's largest and most complex organisations. As TfL accelerates its journey towards net zero operations, you'll play a pivotal role in defining strategy, driving delivery and embedding sustainable practices across a diverse operational estate that keeps London moving every day.

Working with senior stakeholders across the business, you'll lead programmes that reduce energy consumption, cut carbon emissions and improve environmental performance, helping translate ambitious sustainability goals into measurable outcomes.

What You'll Be Doing

As a key member of the team, you will:

  • Lead the development and delivery of TfL's energy and carbon reduction programmes, ensuring alignment with our Net Zero commitments.
  • Drive decarbonisation initiatives across buildings, infrastructure and operational assets.
  • Identify, evaluate and implement opportunities to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions at scale.
  • Provide strategic leadership and oversight of energy efficiency programmes, from business case development and stakeholder engagement through to implementation, performance monitoring and benefits realisation.
  • Analyse complex energy and carbon data to identify trends, measure impact and inform evidence-based decision making.
  • Set challenging but achievable performance targets, influencing stakeholders at all levels to deliver against agreed objectives.
  • Act as a subject matter expert, providing technical guidance on energy management, carbon reduction and sustainability best practice.
  • Work closely with procurement and commercial teams to embed environmental and carbon considerations into contracts and supplier partnerships.
  • Build strong relationships across TfL, championing behavioural and organisational change that supports sustainability outcomes.
  • Support the delivery of TfL's wider environmental, climate and sustainability objectives.

About You

You'll be a proactive and influential sustainability professional with a strong track record of delivering energy and carbon reduction programmes within large, complex organisations.

You are comfortable working strategically while also driving practical delivery, using data, insight and collaboration to achieve meaningful environmental outcomes.

Essential Experience

  • Leading the development and delivery of energy efficiency, carbon reduction and decarbonisation programmes.
  • Designing and implementing organisation-wide energy management frameworks within large operational environments.
  • Monitoring, reporting and managing energy and carbon performance against targets and commitments.
  • Providing expert technical advice and guidance to a broad range of stakeholders.
  • Delivering projects that have achieved measurable reductions in energy consumption and carbon emissions.
  • Influencing organisational change and securing stakeholder buy-in across multiple business functions.

Essential Knowledge

  • Strong understanding of energy management principles, energy efficiency technologies and industry best practice.
  • Knowledge of strategic energy management frameworks, governance structures and continuous improvement methodologies.
  • Detailed understanding of carbon management and decarbonisation strategies.
  • Awareness of climate change policy, the UK energy landscape and the challenges associated with delivering net zero objectives.

Essential Skills

  • Outstanding stakeholder engagement, influencing and relationship-building skills.
  • Ability to engage senior leaders, challenge constructively and secure commitment to ambitious environmental targets.
  • Strong programme and project management capabilities.
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear recommendations.
  • Ability to prioritise competing demands and deliver high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment.
  • Confidence to challenge, support and hold stakeholders accountable for performance and delivery.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to make a lasting impact on the future of sustainable transport in London.

You'll contribute to some of the UK's most significant decarbonisation programmes, work alongside passionate and expert colleagues, and help shape the environmental performance of an organisation that serves millions of people every day.

If you're passionate about energy management, carbon reduction and creating meaningful environmental change at scale, we'd love to hear from you.

 

Application Process    

  • Please apply using your CV only 
  • Think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience in the advert and cover this in your CV 
  • PDF format preferred and do not include any photographs or images 

 

Equality, diversity and inclusion 

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve. We believe that a diverse workforce enables us to deliver better services and outcomes. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. As a Disability Confident Leader, we actively encourage applications from disabled people. As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we aim to offer an assessment or interview to candidates who apply via the scheme where the minimum essential criteria for skills, knowledge and experience has been met. In some circumstances, it may not be practical to offer an interview or assessment to every candidate who applies through the scheme and meet the minimum essential criteria; in these situations, we select candidates who best meet the minimum criteria for the job rather than interviewing all who meet them. 

Across all recruitment activity, we recognise that selection methods may vary depending on the nature and scale of the campaign and will be applied fairly, consistently and proportionately in line with our Disability Confident commitments.    

Benefits  

In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards vary according to the level of role but mostly include the below: 
 

  • Final salary pension scheme  
  • Free travel for you on the TfL network  
  • Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home 
  • 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays 
  • TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow 
  • Private healthcare discounted scheme Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme 
    Retail, health, leisure and travel offers 
  • Discounted Eurostar travel 

We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible, however some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice. 

 

Vetting Process 

At Transport for London, safety, trust and fairness sit at the heart of how we recruit. Our Vetting Charter (https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/careers/our-vetting-process) explains the checks we carry out before you join us, helping ensure we create a safe, inclusive and reliable network for everyone who depends on our services. We simply ask that the information you provide is honest and accurate so we can progress your application smoothly. If something doesn’t match or can’t be verified, we may not be able to move forward with your application, but we’ll always treat you with transparency, respect, and clear communication throughout.