Main purpose and scope of job

Reporting to the Site Manager, To advise and give guidance to the site manager who is responsible for managing the environmental compliance at their designated facilities.
To co-operate and assist in developing the site’s relationship with the regulator.

To ensure all environmental monitoring and reporting is completed in accordance with the monitoring schedule across a number of designated sites.

To advise and support the site manager about the cost of environmental monitoring activities.

To advise and help to deliver plans to manage and control all environmental compliance issues including improving leachate compliance across the site.

Duties and key responsibilities - Operational

1. Responsible for ensuring the company’s Health, Safety, Environment and Quality Policies and Procedures are implemented.
2. Advise and guide the site manager to achieve overall compliance with the Environmental Permit and other relevant environmental legislation.
3. Responsibility for ensuring that the monitoring schedule is up to date and that the Environment Technician is completing the works in accordance with it. Advise and guide the site manager in the development of remedial strategies based upon issues indicated by monitoring programmes.
4. Co-operate and assist the site manager to develop good working relationships with the Environment Agency.
5. Report and action breaches of permitted control and trigger levels and develop action plans as directed to address the non-compliance. Submit notifications as directed by the site manager and procedures.
6. Monitor and report progress to site manager on action plans to address non compliances.
7. Production of factual technical and environmental reports for the regulator to the requirements and timescales of the site permits.
8. Advise and support site managers in management of contractors involved in the installation of environmental infrastructure.
9. Carry out inductions of contractors carrying out environmental works as required.
10. Advise and support Site Managers in the production and review of the Environmental Aspects and Impact assessments.
11. Manage the administration processes for all environmental procurement to include Invoicing, Credit Control, and Purchasing etc.
12. Advise on the effectiveness of leachate management systems on site, proposing improvements where necessary to the site manager. Develop site-specific leachate management plans that include the relevant financial and environmental appraisals to deliver the most cost effective disposal of leachate, and meet Environment Agency requirements. Review and report against such plans.
13. Advise and support the procurement of additional internal resource and/or 3rd party contractors.
14. Advise and support the procurement of other environmental infrastructure, including the appraisal of options. Assist with the installation of such projects once on site.
15. Liaise and attend meetings with Infinis on all landfill gas issues, supporting the site manager with NCRs and escalations as required. Review and report on ncrs closing out or following up as required. Review landfill gas data from FCC and 3rd parties. Prepare Gas Risk Assessments and management plans.
16. Propose permit variations as required to improve environmental performance and reduce legacy. Manage 3rd parties or estates team involved in such proposals as directed by the site manager.
17. Attend and respond to public complaints, maintaining a register of complaints.
18. Update site environmental procedures (e.g. leachate management plans, gas management plans, odour management plans, surface water management, impacts and aspects registers etc.).
19. Conduct site environmental inspections.
20. Attend Virtual team (VT) meetings and close out allocated actions.
21. Involvement in both internal and external IMS audits.

Experience

1. Preferably educated to degree level but otherwise with a proven track record in an environmental or leachate role.
2. Expertise in use of environmental monitoring equipment/ analysers, and experience of report writing.
3. Experience of waste industry and/or environmental monitoring preferred.
4. Membership of CIWM would be beneficial.
5. Strong reputation for consistent delivery of projects on time and to budget within a demanding commercial environment.

Personal attributes and other requirements

1. Ability to work collaboratively at site level with operational, environmental and managerial staff.
2. Willing to take the initiative and accept responsibility for regular works on site.
3. Proven success of influencing others at regional and site operational level both internally and externally.
4. Sufficiently resilient and robust to effectively manage third parties.
5. Will contribute to the wider site team in a capacity of adding value to the decision making process.
6. Awareness of own safety and how ones actions impact of the safety of others. Conscientious in the implementation of Health and Safety procedures, policy, and other requirements.
7. Ability to re-evaluate priorities, responding quickly and positively to change is imperative.
8. Performance driven with the ability to deliver added value and improve commercial performance.
9. Confident to communicate with regulators and other stakeholders, and refer queries to the relevant responsible person within FCC.
10. Can demonstrate success at influencing others at site operational level.
11. Ability to contribute to the overall strategic direction of the site.
12. Able to work alone and on-site for extended periods in accordance with FCC procedures.
13. Looking for self advancement and to progress beyond the role at a later date.

Any other reasonable requests.