Job Title: Environmental Manager
Location: Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Hybrid (2/3 days site based)
Salary: 43,000 plus car/car allowance
Are you a passionate, engaging, and proactive Environmental & Sustainability professional, looking to develop your sustainability career, with a well-known logistics and manufacturing business?
If so, this is the job for you!
HSE Recruitment Network are exclusively recruiting for an Environmental Manager, with the opportunity to represent a progressive multinational company committed to sustainability. This role will be reporting into the Head of Sustainability. and shows their commitment to improving their environmental and sustainability standards and practices on site.
The role will be focused on ensuring sustainability responsibilities and carbon reduction initiatives are being carried out fully. You will lead and facilitate the implementation of the company environmental policies, Environmental Management System, and sustainability action plan including stakeholder engagement activity across multiple suppliers.
Main Responsibilities:
- Advise all levels of management on applicable environmental legislation ensuring we comply with our legal obligations with regards to Environmental Regulation
- Ensure compliance with any environmental consents or permits, providing data for Unipart Group submissions, the customer and to regulatory bodies
- Initiate timely and appropriate actions in emergency situations, contact and communicate effectively with all relevant internal and external stakeholders
- Be responsible for the implementation, upkeep and the continuing development of the Environmental Management Strategy, and Environmental Management System (EMS), complying with the requirements of ISO14001 (2015)
- Manage and carry out environmental audits and inspections, assisting with the internal and external auditing of the EMS across all sites. Managing environmental non-conformities and complaints
- Develop behavioural change programmes, training and awareness in environmental and sustainability issues and responsibilities
- Be responsible for investigating any environmental incidents or near misses and presenting the findings, root cause and any corrective action plans
- Identify and drive ways to reduce energy, carbon emissions, water and single use plastic across contracts, promotion of these best practice methods across UL
- Liaise with waste management company to identify ways to reduce waste and drive up recycling on sites
- Implement site reduction and reuse plans
- Manage all waste streams on site ensuring full compliance to end of waste, carrying out downstream vendor audits when required
- Assist GMs in the development of environmental objectives and targets and monitor success, playing a key part in site SHE meetings
- Ensure appropriate documentation is provided to meet necessary reporting requirements
- Collate, analyse, and report on energy, waste, water, CO2 emissions and single use plastic as part of internal and external reporting requirements
- Report as required on all environmental and sustainability topics
- Produce monthly/ quarterly environmental performance reports to all levels of the business
- Produce relevant environmental information and reports for Group Environmental reporting
Essential Experience, Training and Qualifications:
- Educated to degree level with/or appropriate professional qualification such as IEMA Certificate in Environmental Management or equivalent (desirable)
- Experience in developing sustainability/environmental programs within warehousing and logistics related sectors
- Understanding of EMS/ ISO14001 management system requirements and environmental legislation with ISO Auditor Qualification
- Leadership, communication skills, and stakeholder engagement
- Track record of working at all levels, from Senior Managers to Shop Floor
- Ability to use numerical skills to conduct trend analysis.
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and Google Documents
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and influencing skills
- Experience working within supply chain (desirable)
- Experience with CO2 emission, energy waste reduction strategies (desirable)
Ideal Personality Traits:-
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with gravitas and ability to influence and lead
- Comprehensive knowledge of environmental and sustainability practices
- A leader to change perception and drive change
- Passionate about sustainability
Interested? Apply now for immediate consideration: (url removed) (phone number removed)
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