Engineering Graduate - Compliance and Sustainability

Low Carbon Contracts Company; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus (up to 10%)

25 days annual leave

Up to 8% pension contribution

Professional development support

Employee referral scheme

Job summary

Low Carbon Contracts Company is seeking a Compliance Analyst - Scheme Compliance to contribute to the successful implementation and continual improvement of assurance services across multiple low carbon schemes. The role is based in Leeds or Birmingham with a hybrid working pattern requiring attendance in office two days per week.

The successful candidate will develop technical expertise in verification activities, maintain documentation, and collaborate with internal teams to ensure compliance

Qualifications

• 1-12+ months experience in sustainability, metering or verification roles.
• Bachelor's Degree in STEM or equivalent showing analytical thinking, problem-solving or technical understanding.

Responsibilities

• Develops technical expertise on verification activities and contractual requirements (CfD, LCHA, DPA, ICC, WICC).
• Develops key documentation to support delivery of contractual requirements.
• Ensures assurance services meet verification body standards and best practice, maintains critical documentation and risk management.
• Conducts planning and support of verification activities; engages with producers, emitters and generators to agree emissions measurement procedures and review data.
• Works with internal teams to provide assurance support and assessments on live and upcoming schemes.
• Creates and maintains team documentation and ensures processes and external guidance are up to date and effective.
• Creates planning documents for verification activities against scheme requirements (Sustainability Criteria, Low Carbon Hydrogen Standard, Hydrogen & CO2 Metering).
• Reviews assurance services against industry best practice and works with SMEs to implement process changes to ensure compliance.

Skills

Sustainability experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree in STEM

Job description

Formal Job title: Compliance Analyst - Scheme Compliance

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours / week

Location: Leeds (Ls1 4HR) OR Birmingham (B2 5DB)

WFH policy: Employees are required to attend the office 2 days/week

Flexible working: Variety of flexible work patterns subject to line manager discretion e.g. Compressed 9-day fortnight.

Reports to: Lead Operational Assurance Manager - Scheme Compliance

Deadline Note: We reserve the right to close the advert before the advertised deadline if there are a high volume of applications.

Role Summary:

The Scheme Compliance Team (SCT) plays an important role in managing multiple assurance services that apply to a range of strategic schemes across LCCC, including Contracts for Difference (CfD), Hydrogen Production Business Model (HPBM), Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), and other emerging schemes. The assurance services are pivotal to ensuring compliance with contractual sustainability, metering and other standards across LCCC schemes, ensuring payments are made for low carbon outputs.

As a Compliance Analyst, you will contribute to the successful implementation, delivery and continual improvement of these assurance services and verification activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Developing technical expertise relating to industry best practice on verification activities and contractual requirements (e.g. CfD, LCHA, DPA, ICC, WICC) to support assurance implementation and delivery.
• Developing key documentation to support delivery of contractual requirements.
• Ensuring assurance services meet verification body standards and best practice. This includes maintaining critical documentation, risk management & process improvement.
• Conducting planning and support of verification activities; interacting with producers, emitters and generators (PEGs) to agree emissions measurement procedures and reviewing their compliance data.
• Working with internal teams to provide assurance support and assessments on live and upcoming schemes.
• Create and maintain team documentation including ensuring process, quality management systems and external guidance are up to date & effective.
• Create planning documents for verification activities against scheme requirements (Sustainability Criteria, Low Carbon Hydrogen Standard, Hydrogen & CO2 Metering).
• Review assurance services against industry best practice and work with SMEs to implement process changes to ensure compliance.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

Qualifications & Experience

• 1-12+ months experience working in sustainability, metering or verification roles.

And/Or

• Bachelors Degree in a STEM subject or alternativeshowing analytical thinking, problem-solving, or technical understanding relevant to the role.

Skills and Competencies:

• Ability to understand new technical concepts quickly and translate them into delivery requirements, showcasing evidence-based decision making.
• Ability to draw synergies across delivery requirements to streamline implementation.
• Ability to maintain an organised work schedule to deliver outputs across a range of timelines, including working independently.
• Experience translating technical/scientific requirements to stakeholders at different levels of understanding.
• Strong attention to detail and ambition to deliver excellence across government support schemes.
• Interest in a career pathway in low carbon technologies and the UK energy sector.
• Be a team player, with strong interpersonal skills, working collaboratively towards a shared vision for the future.

Employee Benefits

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. Key benefits that may be available depending on the role include:

• Annual performance based bonus, up to 10%
• 25 days annual leave, plus eight bank holidays
• Up to 8% pension contribution
• Financial support and time off for study relevant to your role, plus a professional membership subscription
• Employee referral scheme (up to £1500), and colleague recognition scheme
• Family friendly policies, including enhanced maternity leave and shared parental leave
• Free, confidential employee assistance, including financial management, family care, mental health, and on-call GP service
• Three paid volunteering days a year
• Season ticket loan and cycle to work schemes
• Family savings on days out and English Heritage, gym discounts, cash back and discounts at selected retailers
• Employee resource groups

About Low Carbon Contracts Company

The Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC) exists to help decarbonise the generation of electricity and make it more affordable for the future. Our work is central to the delivery of the Government’s objective to achieve Net Zero target by 2050.

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