Environmental Compliance & Operations Coordinator
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Environmental Compliance & Operations Coordinator
[Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] Manufacturing seeks a proactive individual to support UK Manufacturing in delivering environmental goals. Responsibilities include identifying opportunities to reduce environmental impact, ensuring compliance, and engaging manufacturing teams. The role involves audits, training, and collaboration with various teams to improve water, energy, and waste management.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintaining an updated environmental legislation register for our Poole Estate and ensuring we are compliant with annual reporting requirements (i.e. ESOS)
- Conduct audits, research solutions, present proposals and support putting processes in place to support environmental compliance issues (energy, air emissions, waste, noise, water, hazardous materials, etc.). Liaise with [Employer hidden]’s facilities and process improvement teams to progress works.
- Ensure all affected stakeholders are aware of relevant environmental compliance issues. Conduct training sessions as needed to educate and remind staff of environmental compliance requirements and areas for improvement.
Engagement/Operations
- To identify opportunities to improve environmental performance in the Manufacturing Rooms by:
- Undertaking regular visits to all Poole sites and identifying with Room Managers and staff, opportunities for improving environmental performance (energy walk-arounds, waste audits, etc.) towards the company’s goals.
- Maintaining an overview on [Employer hidden] Manufacturing environmental performance, identifying opportunities and areas of concern and helping to develop operational strategy.
- Being the main point of contact for all Manufacturing Rooms with regards to environmental initiatives, engaging the topic experts as needed on:
- Water
- Waste
- Energy
- Spill care
- Green spaces/space for nature
- To ensure successful outcome of projects and room ownership by:
- Advising, engaging and supporting the design of achievable and meaningful projects;
- Building capacity in rooms to increase their environmental awareness and deliver projects successfully;
- Helping to remove blockages and seeing projects through from beginning to end.
- Create appropriate support materials, training sessions, environmental guidance and communication content to facilitate change and ownership.
- Working with Manu EP on ROI, estimated environmental impact, prioritisation and approvals.
- To help monitor and measure the outcomes of projects, make adjustments and improve continuously by:
- Facilitating the collection, monitoring and reporting of environmental impact data at Room level in collaboration with the Manu EP/ Enviro Reporting.
- Giving feedback to appropriate teams on their performance, making adjustments and reflecting on learnings with room managers and staff.
- Sharing updates, data and stories with Poole stakeholders
- Sharing learnings amongst departments and Earth Care team.
- To ensure environmental protection and legal compliance by:
- Maintaining an updated environmental legislation register for [Employer hidden] Manufacturing.
- Informing and supporting operational areas in complying (energy, air emissions, waste, noise, water, hazardous materials, etc.)
- To develop strong communication, collaboration and alignment across teams by:
- Ensuring staff are up to date on [Employer hidden] environmental initiatives, goals and strategic direction in collaboration with Manu EP.
- Maintaining and developing key relationships with other [Employer hidden] teams, particularly other Poole support teams such as Facilities, Customer Services, Finance, R&D, Green Hub and Imports/Exports.
- Knowledge sharing with Earth Care and Process Improvement teams in the UK and internationally.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Essential
- Passionate about the environment and implementing initiatives & changes that will make a real positive difference
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to read and digest large sets of numerical and written data.
- The ability to create insightful overviews from complex data.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, and the ability to adapt style to the listener
- Confidence in speaking to peers and senior staff
- People person and team player; enjoys engaging with and supporting people
- Self-starter and self-motivator
- Problem solver and keen eye for detail
- Positive attitude & resilient when facing barriers or challenges
- Ability to motivate others, build momentum and remain consistent
Desirable
- A background in energy management, training, environmental management or sciences
- Experience in [Employer hidden] Manufacturing an advantage
Benefits
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- 6 months of full pay for parental leave (primary caregiver must qualify for SMP)*
- Enhanced paternity leave*
- Bonus scheme
- Day off for weekday birthdays
- Holiday purchase scheme
- 50% discount on [Employer hidden] products and spa treatments
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted rail and bus season tickets
- Employee assistance programme
- There’s a big difference between "Flexible Working " (the legal minimum) and working flexibly. What that looks like varies from role to role and location to location. We actively welcome conversations about what working flexibly could mean and look like for you.
- We’re 10% Employee Owned - all colleagues play a role in protecting our ethics, our independence, contributing ideas for the future and share in the rewards of success when the company is doing well.
- Wellbeing & mindfulness sessions
- Access to employee-led Community Networks, including Disability and Chronic Illness, Family Support, Global Majority (Race and Ethnicity), LGBTQIA+, Menopause and Neurodiversity communities.
- Tailored gender affirming care*